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Mark's RemarksHave Patience
How often have you been trying to meet a deadline, and a visitor drops by your office? Or you’re selling a product, and you get a service call? Or, as a parent, you lie on the couch while your child naps, only to have the phone ring? Interruptions can exhaust our...
How to Take a Loss
I have a friend who grew up in East Texas in Wills Point. He recalled last week that a fellow moved into Van Zandt County a few years ago and began a men's Bible study shortly after. My friend's dad joined the group and thoroughly enjoyed it. Deion Sanders was the man...
Consider Self-Control
He was young, handsome, and successful. His name was Ted Healy. By the time he was in his twenties, he was one of the most successful people in show business. He had already performed on Broadway, formed his own touring company, filmed several Hollywood movies, and...
3 Reasons Corazon Aquino Became an Iconic World Leader
She was a servant leader. Her servant leadership was rooted in her “deep personal spirituality lived integrally” (and sustained by an interior or inner life.) Her servant leadership, fueled by her spirituality, displayed itself through her love for people and through...
The Cost of Not Caring
Organizations that do not show proper care to their people lose employees. Losing employees cost employers money. In her June 30, 2015 article in Bloomberg News, Rebecca Greenfield reported that more employers are changing their emphasis from higher salaries to...
The Loneliest Kid
This week the Surgeon General announced that we have in America a crisis of loneliness. According to the doctor, the effects of loneliness are equivalent to smoking twelve cigarettes a day. In other words, this emotional problem can result in physical consequences....