Category: Effective Encouragement

Comfort can be truly addictive. So much so that the Swiss theologian Karl Barth once said, “Comfort is one of the great siren calls of our present age.” I believe he was pointing to the fact that the ease and stability of comfort can be alluring; almost all-consuming. With an almost narcotic effect, comfortable settings …

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What causes us to intentionally delay completing certain tasks, even when we know doing so may result in negative consequences? Aside from a lack of motivation, I believe many of us procrastinate because we struggle to properly gauge the value of time. Time disappears quickly, and none of us have as much of it at …

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