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Danger is coming, sooner or later. Bowing and bending is no way to keep danger at bay any more than being nice and friendly will make a mouse appear less appetizing to a hawk. Face it; danger will arrive anyway. It’s best to be ready.

Stand your guard. Don’t run the failing popularity race. Stay home and stay strong. Be smart. Balance your spending. Stay in a budget. Train and learn. Keep your infrastructure in repair and your needs in supply. Aggressively expand unity among your allies. And, don’t spend one second being concerned about the opinions of your predators.  · · · →

There rests a line to walk between the extremes of standing in defiance and kowtowing to demands. That line is best called “nature”.

As you stand your ground for something—so you don’t fall for just anything—there’s no need to assert yourself on the ground of others. Do what you reasonably can to accommodate for other’s brokenness and folly—it’s called forbearance. But, don’t overdue “help” to the point of enabling.

Patiently study your direction, your purpose, your methods. By knowing who you are and where you are going and not going, gentle help and refusal thereof wisely follows.  · · · →

An “-er” worldview always seeks to compare something to something else. If your goal is to be “better”, no doubt everyone else will eventually think that you think you are better than everyone else—and the truth will be that you probably won’t be.

With taxes and politics its “higher vs lower”; neither is attainable. “Lower” taxes isn’t a number; it is a direction, not a destination, so, by definition, it can never succeed; same with “higher” taxes.

Rather than trying to be “more” or “less”, just be you and your best. Choose clear goals, reach them, then choose another.  · · · →

The bigger picture trumps most problems. If you’re having trouble, think big. But, there is a picture even higher than the “big picture” we often think of.

God is constantly and proactively transforming Earth into something amazing. The more we focus our efforts on “amazing transformation”, the more worthwhile any of our efforts will be. This is true of nations, families, businesses, and everything between.

When a society perseverates on an inbred, self-focused culture, business, religion, or entertainment, health and economics decay. But, macro to individual, when we escalate foundational transformation at our core being, life abounds in uncountable magnitude.  · · · →