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  • How Your Perception Impacts Reality

    How Your Perception Impacts Reality

    Good morning from Westminster, Maryland! Are you familiar with the saying, “perception is reality”? As someone who works in the customer service industry it something I hear and talk about often. When working with a customer, their perception of a situation can be as important, or sometimes even more important, than what actually happened. In… Read more

  • New Year, Rewritten Story

    New Year, Rewritten Story

    Good morning from Westminster, MD! As the end of 2022 quickly approaches a time of both great hope and great disappointment quickly approaches: the New Year and New Year’s Resolution season. The hope we have for what is possible in the New Year reaches its peak right around now, a day or two before the… Read more

  • Rediscover the Wonder

    Rediscover the Wonder

    Good morning from Westminster, MD! Over the past two articles, we have looked at the power of a real opportunity and a reframed identity. Next time we will focus in on the rewritten story they produce, but this week I want to focus on another story. A story of great hope in the midst of… Read more

  • Identity Reframed

    Identity Reframed

    Good morning from Westminster, MD! In a recent post I wrote about the power of a real opportunity, or practical hope, to create change. However, it is only one-half of the all-in hope equation. True, all-in hope becomes a reality when a real opportunity is combined with a reframed identity, or spiritual hope. As I… Read more

  • Looking Up and Living Thankful

    Looking Up and Living Thankful

    Good morning from Westminster, MD! As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches here in the United States, we all tend to become a little more thankful. This is a great thing. The truth is we all need reminders of the blessings we have in our lives, no matter how big or small they happen to be. However,… Read more

  • What Makes It a Real Opportunity?

    What Makes It a Real Opportunity?

    Good morning from Westminster, MD! What makes all-in hope “all-in” is the combined power of practical and spiritual hope. To say it another way, it is the existence of a real opportunity and a reframed identity. Most people would agree on the value of an opportunity, but what is it that makes it a real… Read more