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By James Hayes
My love of teaching people how to learn.
I personally believe that everyone has created within them amazing abilities that are just waiting to be discovered and utilized in order to better themselves and people around them. When we begin to make a search for these abilities within us, it is very important that the motivation for doing so is in order to honor and glorify God as well as to benefit people. If we have abilities that we have developed in our lives and choose not to help other people who are more disadvantaged than we are, then our life can very easily and very quickly become boring and unfulfilling.
Each person’s life contains many various areas of importance that are continuously interconnected in order to create and maintain a balance of skills and responsibilities. Within the pages of this book I have tried to address many areas of my life that I experienced at various times that helped me to develop a variety of skills in order to accomplish different kinds of tasks. And now, through my sharing of these various experiences with you I hope that you will see the complexity, the interconnectivity, and the balance that you also may need in order to further grow, learn, and develop as a mature individual. It is my hope that each, and every one of you reading this book search and discover ways in order to develop your God-given potential abilities within you and utilize them in order to make your life in the life of people around you as fulfilling as possible.
My love of teaching people how to learn has brought me to a point in my life where I love supporting people and encouraging them as well as guiding them in their personal and their professional development. I love to see people grow, learn, discover, mature, and continually work toward achieving their greatest God-given potential in their life.
There was a time in my teaching career when I was a substitute teacher with three different school districts. During three of my last five years of teaching I was engaging with approximately 18,000 to 24,000 students each year. And what I saw during those three specific years was absolutely amazing. I saw students who were mature, patient, respectful, filled with hope and enthusiasm, and eager to grow and learn. They only wanted to belong and to be treated with kindness, patience, enthusiasm, dignity, and respect. They were hungry to be taught, guided, and mentored in order to fulfill their greatest God-given potential within their lives.
Much of the enthusiasm that motivated me to write this book was directly because of my personal experiences with these students. They were actually no different than any other students. However, I had changed. And the change in me made a significant difference in how I engaged with them and then how they began to see themselves. They began to see that they had skills, value, and tremendous opportunity in their lives. They began to learn that they actually had various types of support systems that were continuously available to them so that they could grow and learn. I constantly tried to cultivate any kind of maturity that I could think of into their minds and hearts. In my personal opinion those truly were some of the greatest experiences of my entire life. I will never forget those wonderful young people who gave me the honor of working with them.
This book that I have created or organized for everyone is better seen as a personal journal which I also utilize as user manual for myself in my continued personal and professional development. And you can also utilize it for you and for everyone in your family in order to grow and mature in scientific academic knowledge. If you are interested, I also want to encourage you and those that you teach to focus as well on biblical knowledge, biblical laws, and biblical moral values, hopefully through the use of your newly found significantly improved reading ability that your will read about very soon in this book.
It is my profound hope for you that organizing your own personal reading skills, study skills, and computer generated research and presentation skills, that are unique to your own personal abilities, needs and goals, may help you to more clearly discover your own interests, as well as your own unique God-given gifts, abilities, or talents. They are truly treasures within you. I want for each and every one of you to learn how to grow, mature, and learn more quickly, more efficiently, and more effectively, so that you can ultimately achieve and utilize all of your own God-given potential in your life for your own benefit, as well as for the benefit of other people around you.
With the learning tools that I will share with all of you, may you rise up like a lion and conquer the world of the written word and all of the information worldwide that it provides for everyone who chooses to try to consume its content. And may those around you be blessed by your abilities as well as your desire to try to benefit yourself and others around you in your community and in your world.
Rise up child. Begin to try reading while standing up. See if it works for you as well. See if you can read like a rocket ship and comprehend what you are reading with significant clarity. See if there is a lion inside of you just waiting to come out. I think there is one inside of you just waiting to be awakened. And the world is waiting for you specifically, to benefit them because of your own individual, God-given personal talents and skills. May those that you come into contact with for the rest of your life be refreshed, invigorated, and encouraged with your knowledge and enthusiasm in life.
There is a very important concept that I personally believe many people take for granted. You must give yourself permission to reach the farthest obtainable boundaries of latent abilities that you possess in every area of your life. That is the only way that you will ultimately be able to utilize your fullest God-given potential within you in your life. You have the opportunity to grow beyond your wildest dreams and expectations. Therefore, I wholeheartedly encourage you to take this opportunity to explore the things that you never thought in your wildest imagination that you would ever have the time or the ability to explore. And teach and mentor others to do the same thing in their lives as well. I will be using a learning template or structure that I have gleaned from the Biblical book of Proverbs in the Bible. I will be using this template because the foundation of learning seems to build upon itself in a logically sequential set of steps. I like to think of the book of Proverbs as Biblical Life Lessons.
I have focused on five foundational steps of learning that are outlined in the biblical book of Proverbs within the pages of the Bible. These five learning steps or categories that you will utilize continually will help you to be able to develop “scientific academic knowledge,” “Biblical wisdom,” “understanding of overarching comprehensive or complex concepts,” personal “discernment” of God, the people around you, and the world around you, and finally, the utilization of “discretion” that is to be used by you in your speech and in your social and physical interactions with other people throughout your life as you grow, learn, and develop personally and professionally. And hopefully as you learn far more than you have ever expected to do so, may you also learn some leadership skills that I will share with you in this book as well.
I highly recommend to everyone to also read John Maxwell’s wonderful book on leadership entitled, “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.” The simple stories in his book will show you how to personally navigate through your life while at the same time steadily building leadership knowledge and skills. We all have those skills within us. And we all utilize those skills in small amounts every day of our life. John Maxwell has simply identified leadership laws or skills for us so that we can identify them also, organize them into small steps, and ultimately begin to utilize them more often and more efficiently and effectively.
The funny thing about Mr. Maxwell’s highly enlightening book that I personally have found is that almost everyone has and uses leadership skills almost every day of their life. They just aren’t aware that they are doing so. And so they take for granted their own personal leadership abilities within them simply because they don’t take the time to learn about them, identify them, examine them, clarify them with precision, and practice utilizing them in a systematic way.
In the book of Hebrews chapter 4 and verse 12, the Lord says, “The Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and the intentions of the heart.” The word of God is truly a sword with which we can destroy the works of the serpent. We can use it as a scalpel to surgically apply God’s word for the teaching and healing of the brethren as well as all of mankind. And we can use it as a laser that can divide with significant precision specific concepts of knowledge in order to utilize it in the most precise ways possible. As His sons and daughters, the Christian body of Christ has tremendous benefits to be gained by the knowledge that God gives to us. Chuck Missler said, “God always rewards the diligent student.” So let’s become diligent students of God’s Word, the Bible and learn from it the many truths that it has to offer us throughout our lifetime.
God always knows our thoughts and our intentions or motives for what we are thinking and doing. Trying to develop precise clarification of concepts is therefore the key to absolutely everything in our life because we use precise knowledge in order to try to understand about ourselves a little more closely the many things that God already understands about us.
Many people don’t see the opportunities that they have daily in order to isolate, identify, categorize, sequentialize, and prioritize the skills that God has placed within them, so that they can use them when and where they need to and actually have the ability to use them with precision and skill. Can you possibly imagine NASA sending off a rocket ship into outer space by just kind of aiming the rocket up into the air somewhere. No. That wouldn’t work at all. And neither will your God-given potential leadership skills work either if they are unfocused and vague at best. That’s just not going to work. No.
If you want your life to grow and mature significantly, you will just have to take a little bit of time every day and pay a little closer attention to the actual skills that you already possess by comparing yourself to the people in the stories in John Maxwell’s book. I guarantee you that you will most likely find some or even many similarities in the people in the stories in Mr. Maxwell’s book on leadership. Then you may begin to identify similarities in your own life that you can utilize as your very own personal leadership skills with your very own personal characteristics that are unique only to you. And that personal characteristic that is unique only to you is what actually makes the world go around, and go around successfully, as well as with variety and creativity. That is what makes life successful, varied, uniquely creative, and significantly interesting as well.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that marriage or the Covenant of marriage is under attack. It seems that more than ever before husbands and or wives are giving up instead of fighting for the marriage. This is a serious issue in our current culture.
Why is it that people are giving up in this modern day culture? Why are people failing to see the value of fighting for marriage?
Deception! We are fighting a fight with God’s enemy. Satan is hell bent on destroying the Covenant relationship. The Covenant of marriage is a beautiful thing and in its proper place and order in proper alignment with the Covenant we have with God the Father through Jesus Christ’s incredible gift on calvary, we can find the beauty of what God intended for us.
Love is being willing to lay down one’s life for someone else. In a marriage we are going to find that our mate isn’t always doing things we like and certainly aren’t always easy to love. It’s not the actions we need to love. If we base our decisions to love based on what they do instead of loving them because we decide it’s the right thing to do we will always be on a roller coaster ride that feels like it will never end.
The apostle Paul tells us in the first letter the the church of Corinth in chapter 13 verses 4 to 8 love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; its not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it’s not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing., but it rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things; believes all things hopes all things; endures all things. Love never ends.
Imagine this being you he’s describing. Speak this with your name in each line. Now do the same for your spouse. Do you see how powerful this is? This is what we are called to do. We are called to do this for our spouse and others.
If you find yourself contemplating your future with your spouse, stop and consider what did Jesus do for you and me? He gave everything on the cross on Golgotha. He said in his dying breath Father forgive them for they know not what they do. We are called to lay down our rock like he convinced the men looking to stone the woman found in sexual sin. He wants us to lay down our Grievances toward one another and leave our incredible baggage at the cross for him to carry. Then pickup our cross realizing that it’s gonna hurt and follow him.
Oh, that’s not a popular statement is it? Everyone wants to believe when you come to Jesus it’s going to be rainbows and unicorns, but that’s never promised to us. We are promised that we will see trouble and we will have sorrow but that joy comes in the morning. We are promised that if we follow him we can have peace that passes all understanding.
So what are you waiting for? Focus on staying healthy in your relationship but if you’ve messed up and everyone does. Forgive and help your spouse find their way back to repentance and restoration with Christ Jesus. This is the message of the Gospel. I’m so glad to know and be able to walk in this and I hope this helps someone stay and stand for their marriage just like me. It’s worth it to fight. God’s already won. I know…
I read the end of the story. You can too.
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How does disability affect relationships? Can disabled and unattractive men have a romatic relationship with beautiful gorgeous women? Do beautiful women find disabled and handicapped men attractive? How do you deal with a disabled partner? Can you still have a romantic and lifelong relationship if your spouse becomes disabled? Would you marry a disabled man and not laugh at his handicap? What do others think about a disabled man married to an attractive woman? Women who have been marrying unattractive high status men since forever. Here is a video about six disabled people who married beautiful women.
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I ran into this video clip of Sylvester Stallone about there’s three types of people in your life that hit home and is so true. ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 💘 If you are like me, as time pass, you find out more about the bad side of people. Did you ever hear the saying, I rather buy a house with no neighbors. I don’t like people. I love animals. Indeed, this is a famous adage for people who love animals and those who like being alone or prefer a quiet life and not dealing with two-faced people. People can lie, cheat, steal, and be sneaky. Often, many people put their guard down by trusting a so-called friend to be let down and hurt. Hence, they do not want anyone to be fooled and get either scammed, betrayed emotionally, or emotionally hurt. Many people get betrayed, lied to, taken advantage of, used, or scammed by a so-called friend, family member, sibling, parent, co-worker, spouse, business partner, or employer. People can be sneaky and conniving. Married couples can turn on each other, lie, cheat, betray, and hurt. Those hurt multiple times do not want to interrupt their living conditions. It means you should have few friends or be in large crowds because they cause more harm than good. Animals do not know how to cheat, betray, lie, connive, scam, steal, or intentionally hurt. They give you unconditional love without expecting anything in return. Many people do not want to get hurt again and say this because they love animals more than anything else since these creatures are loyal and will never betray your trust or hurt your feelings. At the same time, humans can do so easily and bring problems that may affect one’s peace of mind. Here are some other versions of it:
- “I would rather have pets than friends.”
- “I’d rather live in the wilderness with my animals than in any city with people around.”
- “My animals are better company than most people I know.”
These sayings express what many individuals feel about preferring loyalty, companionship, and simplicity offered by creatures. People may choose to stay on their own without close neighbors within their vicinity, thus enjoying quietude plus the freedom of having pets undisturbed.
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Had a memorable great lunch with my two son’s Kristian (32 years old) and Tim (30 years) at Iron Age Korean Steak Restaurant for Father’s Day 2024. Tim called me last week extend an invitation for today at 11:30 am with Kristian. Iron Age Korean Steak House was near the corner of Lake Avenue and Milwaukee Avenue in Glenview, Illinois, an area I grew up but have not been there in decades. Had a great duper memorable lunch. Tons of food, great food, had a few drinks, smiles, and tons of good ole fashing laughs and more laughs. Busted Timothy’s chops and had a great time. Love you Kristian, and Tim. Missed my oldest daughter Monica but got a text from her. Monica lives 5 hours north. North of Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. Need to find time to go visit Monica and my new grandson, Alex. Thanks again, boys. Love you and had a great time and enjoyed every minute of it. Love you tons. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and have fun and be safe. Talk to you, soon. Tim, send me video clips of your two cats. The cats you taught how to play fetch, bark, and act like a dog. Lol. @Chotime @Kristian
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A huge happy Birthday to brother in law Big Dennis Drake 🙏 ❤️ 💙 🙌 💪 ♥️ 🙏
Dennis Drake is 65 years young today. 😳 Dennis, my man, enjoy your special day and take advantage of the precious minutes ❤️. Love you brother 🎂 🥮 🍥 🥞 🧁 🍰
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My first grandson, Alexander. My oldest, daughter Monica Cho first child, Alex.
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