by David Jacob Smith | Oct 22, 2010 | Life Purpose, Personal Reflections
I’m a life coach. It’s my joy to sit down with another human being and help them figure out just what they’re on this planet for. One of the aims of life coaching is to see people realize their full potential and fulfill their unique life purpose. Explicitly, and...
by David Jacob Smith | Oct 9, 2010 | Life Purpose, Personal Reflections, Spiritual Development
A number of years ago, now, Canon put out a commercial with the catch line, “Image is everything”. I remember thinking back then how that line captured the prevailing value of our culture. A few blogs back I wrote on how our American culture seems to be...
by David Jacob Smith | Sep 27, 2010 | Personal Reflections, Spiritual Development
Have you ever thought about the connection between what one believes and how one behaves? What might we learn about someone by watching their behavior over a protracted period of time? All of us are really open books and to the observant we can be read fairly easily....
by David Jacob Smith | Sep 8, 2010 | Personal Reflections
Something amazing happened last Saturday evening. My family and I were at a football game my 17 year old high school senior was playing in. This is only Ryan’s second year playing football. He went out his freshman year but ended up sitting on the bench for the...
by David Jacob Smith | Mar 22, 2009 | Personal Reflections, Spiritual Development
Do you view your life more as a series of events to be a part of, destinations to arrive at, and tasks to be done, than as a journey of becoming a particular kind of person? Granted, life is full of things to do, places to go, tasks to accomplish, responsibilities to...
by David Jacob Smith | Feb 17, 2009 | Personal Reflections, Spiritual Development
Needless to say, we are in tough economic times. Even with the recent passing of over a 700 billion dollar “stimulus” package, the economic prospect for our nation still does not look good. Prognosticators of all kinds are predicting at best a small...