If a home schooler talks to themself, is that considered a parent teacher conference?

If you are a home schooler and find yourself a bit frustrated you are not alone!

Good News is, You Can Change. Bad News is, You Probably Won't

Isn't it great that every day is an opportunity to make new choices and everyone gets a new day every 24 hours. The problem is not many people make new choices. Life is really a series of choices. Big and small. Important and insignificant, but never under estimate the cumulative value of all those decisions. You do have the chance to live life differently tomorrow than you did today, but will you?  Look around and note that some do and many do not. I wish you only had to make one good choice for life to go well, but the truth is while there is one huge choice that ultimately sets the course for the rest of your eternity, life is really made up of lots of good choices. Unfortunately you really only have to make one bad choice to ruin the rest of your life. Even when you make good ones life still tosses you curve balls. So what will it be for you today? New beginnings or same old, same old?

Success Comes Daily, Not in a Day

The day you get your diploma or score the touchdown is considered a day of success, but  in reality that is simply the day you are recognized for your success. True success was each and every very normal average dull day that you got up, went to class, studied, never gave up, practiced, exercised and trained. Yes success is recognized on a day, but it comes daily. Now go out there today and be a success.

Strengths Exaggerated Become Weaknesses

Did you ever notice that people often get fired for the very strength they were hired for or a couple breaks up based on the very things that attracted them to each other?  Why is that?  Your strength of personality, when not kept in balance and check, becomes your weakness. It is not that you have changed, but rather it is the fact that now the thing folks were attracted to you for now begins to work against you. They are around it all the time.  The outgoing and friendly salesman is now too chatty. The serious and focused accountant is now labeled negative and a loner. It is not that we need to change but that we simply need to find balance. It might very well be that you can discover your strengths by simply toning down the things that you think are a weakness. 

Don't Let Church Ruin Your Sunday

Seems interesting doesn't it that something as wonderful as Sunday can sometimes be lost in the very thing that is all about Sunday. I don't mean that church is simply open on Sunday, I mean that often the opportunity for personal metamorphosis through the miracle of that First Sunday can be lost in the human interactions with the very instrument for sharing the good news of transformation.  If you don't go to church because there are too many hypocrites there consider these two thoughts, if you allow others to stand between you and God who is closer to God you or them, and besides, isn't church a great place for all hypocrites to gather? After all, church is a hospital for sinners and not a hotel for saints. Don't let church ruin your Sunday. Go, visit, check it out, and you just might find your presence is exactly what has been missing. Experience Sunday for a change.