Freedoms of speech, religion, to assemble… But are we using our life to make a difference in creating a better world? How about in America? America has declined. Unless this nation's leadership lives up to the mission ordained by God, many troubles will come. God is beginning to leave America. This is God’s warning. In our time, all Christians should be world champions, destined to fulfill for God the role of the right-hand side thief. Christians must rise & be willing to struggle for the salvation of the world. But Christians today are too busy perfecting their separate denominations & church interests. 
The Best Way To Keep New Year’s Resolutions
January 8th, 2010 by Michelle, my belle received No Comments »Richard Wiseman, professor of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, tracked 5,000 people who made goals and New Year’s Resolutions. 9 out of 10 failed to meet their goals! Are you one of them? To make success more likely:
Break your resolution into a series of small steps; tell your family and friends about your resolution, thus both gaining support and increasing the personal cost of failure; regularly remind yourself of the benefits of achieving your goal; give yourself a small reward each time you achieve one of the steps towards your goal; and keep track of your progress towards your goal, for example by keeping a journal or putting a chart on the fridge door.
-Wiseman, Richard. 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot. New York: Knopf, 2009. Print.
Think about it: how easy is it to keep those goals we each spend minutes, or perhaps days on, determining to conquer bad habits in the beginning of the new year? I like how Peter Singer, University Center for Human Values’ Bioethics Professor at Princeton University and Laureate Professor in the Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the University of Melbourne, refers to Aristotle. It’s almost as if we know what we should do, but then can’t control our mind to dominate our body and emotions from controlling us! By our negative ways of thinking, we unconsciously prohibit ourselves from acting upon the true desires screaming throughout our very essence.
It’s a good thing we’ve been implanted with a conscience! God gave us that tool to follow Him. Let’s encourage one another to follow it and make external goals that reflect internal goals. We all want world peace, right? Collectively, if the human race is centered on a goal of peace and prosperity, we can each make individual goals, and through our own thoughts and actions toward others in our relationships and workplaces, our resolution can “resolve” the problems we can’t overcome alone, both inside and out.
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