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18 Oct 2010 New Topics Of Interest On This Blog
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During the past week I have been reviewing this blog and thinking about this and my other blogs. I have come to a decision which I am sure you will like.

This is my personal blog, written from my personal Learning journal where I share things that I learn every day. I do spend a lot of my time studying areas of personal development, leadership and success principles as well Bible studies. I love to study Bible personalities and complete Bible books (especially from the New Testament).

I do have blogs that are dedicated to Personal Development:
Mindset For Living (mindsetforliving.com) is dedicated to articles on how to create a positive mindset.

The theme is:

A Positive Mindset For Positive Living – Change Your Mind, Change Your Life

KiwichampKiwichamp.com is a blog that was started in 2008, and there I am sharing studies about Bible Personalities, Personal Development for Christians as well as the story of my first years on the mission field. The central theme of Kiwichamp is:

Personal Development God’s Way

I invite you to visit these blogs also, and subscribe to the one(s) that interest you.

I would love to see you there and invite you to share your thoughts and experiences on these blogs as well as here. I would love to hear from you.

My Other Interests:
This week as I was reviewing this blog I decided that because I am writing from my learning journal, it would be good to blog about some of my other areas of interest here too.

These areas include health, natural solutions to health issues, photography, finances (I have a strong interest in the Forex Market), technology (yep I am a bit of a “Geek”). I don’t have too much time to spend in the techie area, but those new toys that keep coming on the market DO fascinate me too :)

I also like little dogs (I may get another one. Sadly my last dog was killed by a car. That took some getting over.)

When there is time, I also like to work with WordPress, html a little php and some other areas of coding.

Jill RapleyYou may also find an article or two about travel, culture, brain science or learning techniques, You may also find some snippets of world news, interesting historical facts (from today in history).

Then there will be articles about music (especially jazz and easy listening), my daily adventures or even teddy bears (yep I am a collector) – in fact – this blog is about to turn into the theme:

Life Through The Eyes of Jill Rapley.

I trust you will enjoy the new expanded theme of this blog and please do come and join in the fun and share some of your life experiences too.

I look forward to hearing from you and getting to know you here as well as on Facebook and Twitter.

My Facebook Page
Kiwichamp (Jill R) on Twitter

JillI look forward to seeing you here often, and hearing about your life experiences too.


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23 Jul 2010 Life Is An Opportunity
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Opportunity To WinLife is an opportunity, benefit from it. Mother Teresa.

Today’s question is:
Are you REALLY taking full advantage of the opportunity that life is offering you today?

Do you realize that life IS an opportunity?

Well those are two questions right? But they are very valid ones, and your answers will lead you to a life changing experience.

If you read What Does Each Day Mean To You? you will have already begun to consider the importance of taking advantage of the opportunities that each day brings.

How can you really live life to the full?
Isn’t it true that so often it is not until you are in danger of losing something in life that you actually fully recognize it’s real value?

Have you ever wondered why so often it is not until we face a near death experience or a similar severe challenge in life that recognize what a precious gift life really is?

So often we do not really recognize that life is an opportunity because:

1. We get busy with the daily routines and forget to look at the big picture.

Solution: Schedule at least 15 minutes EVERY day to spend time alone reflecting on all of the things you enjoy in life. Give thanks for each one.

Yes, gratitude is a very powerful attitude.

It is so easy to take the good things that you enjoy in life for granted. And when that happens you don’t even realize just how many things you DO enjoy every day.

An attitude of gratitude will completely transform
your perspective of your daily life.
This alone will turn your life around.

2. We are overcome with fear and doubt.

Solution: Recognize that fear will destroy your life and cloud your perspective of everything you do. It will stop you from REALLY enjoying anything in life.

Once you recognize the presence of fear, start to DISPLACE it with faith. You cannot get rid of a negative emotion or attitude in your life by focusing on it. You need to start intentially and deliberately focusing on the very opposite attitude.

Read: Fear Is A Developed Habit

Yes, fear is a developed habit and so to reverse this habit it will take daily focused action. What kind of action? Deliberately focus on positive solutions in every area of your life.

3. Our life dreams are frustrated.

I have left the best for the last :)

Solution:
Did you know that you were born with the seed of your destiny in your heart? This destiny includes your dreams, your passions and aspirations in life. It also includes a deep desire for a relationship with the Living God.

There are two major areas of life that are deeply connected with your dreams and your COMPLETE sense of purpose in life:

a. Relationship with God.
Yes I believe the Bible and the simple Gospel of abundant life in Christ. Without this relationship with God through Christ, no matter what level of success you rise to in life, there will always be a deep nagging emptiness in your heart. It won’t go away no matter what you try to fill it UNLESS you decide to follow Jesus. (Read John 1:12 and John 3:1-23 in the Bible).

b. Fulfillment of your destiny (or WHY = life’s dreams and purpose).
You will never be fully satisfied in life either until you are working towards your dream and then living it. We will be discussing this more in future articles on this blog. Meanwhile, I highly recommend you get this CD Find Your Why Now. See below under the resources section for more information.

JillLife is an opportunity – are you fully benefiting from it?

Resources:
Fear Is Wrongly Focused Faith,
Worry is wrong meditation
Find Your Why Now (Don’t miss this tremendous opportunity to get hold of a great CD plus several mp3s that will really change your life).

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