Well I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! I am thankful for the time at home with the family today and the rest of the weekend. We will be out and about today visiting family around town. A Thanksgiving breakfast, lunch and dinner. Phew! I hope everyone can take some time today to step aside [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
Well, I can’t believe it is already Thanksgiving! Where has this year gone? I hope you and your family have an awesome Thanksgiving holiday and that you have the opportunity reflect back on 2008 and think of the things you have to be thankful for this year. It has been a very exciting year for [...]
Life and Work Balance for Young Adults
One of my goals in writing on TrippAtkins.com is to equip and empower young adults (20-somethings) who are feeling disenfranchised with life and work and trying to find the right balance in life. Here’s my situation. I am an attorney and my wife is a CPA. Before our son was born, both of us spent [...]
On Making Choices
“You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every momen tof our existence, ware are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” – Deepak Chopra How many choices have you made today? Probably a thousand, and most of them haven’t been done with you consciously thinking about [...]
Success Today!
What do you have to do to be successful today? Do you ever stop and consider this question? Do you ever think about this question at the beginning of the day. Personally, I know that once I get to work things seem to go crazy. I usually have several files that I would like to [...]
On Preparation…
“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” John F. Kennedy We always find out how prepared we are when the game starts. When I was playing high school football some weeks things were great and others would be better forgotten. My junior year our team was coming off one of [...]
You Won’t Accomplish Anything Great Until You Know Yourself
Have you ever looked at your life and tried to figure yourself out? I have taken spiritual gifts tests, personality profiles, asked other people how they would describe me, and spent a lot of time looking inward to see what I am good at, what I love to do, what I am bad at, and [...]
A Platform of “Change” for the Church
Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. – Romans 12: 2 Conformed: To bring into agreement or correspondence; make similar. (dictionary.com). Transformed: To change [...]
