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.” And I think he is pointing to the fact that the ease and stability of comfort can be alluring, almost all-consuming.     With almost a narcotic effect, we …

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What makes us intentionally put off completing certain tasks, even when we know doing so can result in terribly negative consequences?  Aside from not wanting to embark on a task for lack of motivation, I think it’s fair to say many of us procrastinate simply because we are unable to properly gauge time.  In other …

Read more “Time: Our Most Valuable Currency”