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Warren Wiersbe says: “A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.” What really separates the two? Well, the answer may lie in another saying most of us have heard: “Life is 2 percent what happens to…

I recently entered a staff member’s office to find them distraught. They’d been working pretty hard on a project and even though they had given their all to it, they were still being pretty highly criticized. I could tell they were really discouraged, to the point that they really wanted to let loose…

Contentment It was my sixth birthday; I felt so special. We had a party with hats, pretty plates, special punch and a great big birthday cake. All my friends came, that was good. All my friends came with presents, that was better. I made my wish, blew out the candles and smiled. I felt invincible on…

By far the most difficult form of pursuit behavior to recognize is criticism. How can those who act adversarially be said to be in pursuit? We feel alienated, not close. But criticism is characterized by overfocus. The “stinger’ and the “stung” are emotionally connected. Whenever a gnawing critic gets…

A building contractor was being paid by the week for a job that was likely to stretch over several months. He approached the owner of the property and held up the check he'd been given. "This is two hundred dollars less than we agreed on," he said. "I know," the owner said, "But last week I overpaid…