Teens have a frightening task as they near the end of High School. They are to decide, as soon as possible, what they want to do for the rest of their lives. A lot of them are pressured to choose the logical path. Many choose the wrong path.
75% of college students will never hold a job that requires the degree they earn. That’s thousands of dollars they didn’t need to spend. 75% of college students work jobs that don’t even require above a high school education or GED.
Homeschoolers know that there is more to life than simply passing tests and getting grades. There are goals, passions, and life-purpose that take precedent over the status quo of the job market. Homeschoolers realize that the biggest mistake one entering to college can make, is to base a college degree choice on the current job market. Everything can change in 4 years.
For lasting contentment, purpose, and ambition, students need to choose career fields based on their passions in life. It’s the only way to do what you love and love what you do. You have to know what you’re passionate about, and then you have to know how to reach the end goal of doing it for a living.
SPARKON is a new web app that does just that. It takes teenagers, helps them to discover their passion, and then gives them a detailed report on their personality type, and how their passions and personality can join together to find the careers they would be perfect for. Teenagers can then use SPARKON, and its thousands of videos, to build their future.
SPARKON is helping young people to visualize their future and to learn how to build it. Teen accounts are always free but, to take advantage of all the features and to get the 20-30 page Sparkmap report, parents must create a family account.
You can try out the family account free for 30 days by going here.
Check out SPARKON today. SPARKON is helping young people to see who they want to be and showing them how to become that person. What could be better?
Nope, I haven’t gone into hiding. I have spent the last week with my brother-in-law putting a new motor in my Nissan Xterra. It was a lot of work but I really enjoyed it. If anyone ever has any engine problems with a Nissan Xterra, I can fix it for you. But I won’t.
These posts don’t have anything to do with church marketing. But they are in the line of good church leadership. The principle for this post is putting God’s will before any burden or desires you may have. This is something I struggle with constantly; realizing my desires may not necessarily be what God wants, even when it’s to do something for Him.
I first met Cai sitting in a desk in room 9 at JCM. He was teaching mainly upperclassmen this year so I didn’t have him as a teacher in any of my freshman classes. But on this day, our instructor was unavailable and Cai stepped in to fill the void.
His Danish accent was hilarious to me. He was teaching about keeping a budget. Apparently that’s a lesson I never learned but maybe I will in the future and then I’ll write about it here. But in that very first class I learned a lot about my substitute instructor. [Read More]
The speaker, Troy, was the last one for the seminar. He wasn’t making a sales pitch as much as trying to motivate people to take the initiative and give a little more effort for their own good. He paused for a moment and played a clip from the motion picture, Braveheart, starring Mel Gibson. [Read More]
I remember going to a Zig Zigler success event in Memphis. I went mainly to see Jerry Lewis in person. (No, not the great balls of fire guy. Were you born yesterday?) I brought home a few good principles from the other speakers however. One of the ones I remember is from one of the top Real Estate agents in the nation; I can’t remember his name.
His big success tip was to pump yourself up every morning. He made us clench our fist and raise our hands. Then, we would punch the air with one arm then the other in time with these words, “I feel great, I feel fine! I feel this good all the time!” He told us to do that every morning before we got dressed for the day. [Read More]
Cai was a very talented individual. He couldn’t sing very well, but that’s about the only thing he didn’t do very well. That and basketball. Anyone who ever played against Cai in basketball knows that he was a fouling machine. But in most other things, Cai was abundantly talented.
He was an excellent teacher that always challenged his students. He was gifted at making everyone feel happy. I’m sure any TBC’er will smile when they hear, “what’s kickin’ chickin’?” He was an anointed preacher. He was an invaluable friend.
One of the things he taught me is still something I’m trying to master. Cai never promoted himself. He was always doing his best to give others a shot at success. I think that might have been one of the key qualities that made him such a dynamic leader. [Read More]
This has been my theme song the last few years. Sometimes life throws you nothing but curve balls and it feels like it’s been a long time since you got a base hit. But through all those hard times I can still look around and see his blessings. You don’t have to search very far before seeing what God keeps you from and how he has protected and provided for you.
Don Johson wrote this song in 1975. Recently he passed away. This song though will live on for a long, long time.
It makes my eyes bleed every time I read an article or an argument where the evolution argument is summed up as “science vs. religion.” To say that religious people can’t be scientific is as ridiculous as saying a scientists has no opinions. The evolution vs. creation debate is not a science vs. religion, it is a reason vs. science debate. Both “sides” have credentialed scientists. Both sides have access to the same evidence. Both sides draw different conclusions based on the same evidence. The pathetic rhetoric from the evolution side comes when they revert to their stronghold of “religion vs. science” arguments. Why not argue the evidence instead?
I read this on Facebook and thought it was good enough to share. It said this was Albert Einstein but, with a little research, it’s easy to tell that someone just attributed his name to it very recently. Nevertheless, this is an enlightening exchange that exposes two things:
1. The likelihood of having “faith” attacked in a university.
2. The absence of logic and the presence of hypocrisy in the attacks on faith.
If you don’t already I would recommend that you subscribe to the Harvard Business Review. It is a pretty pricey magazine but comes jam-packed with good content. I don’t remember when but I was cleaning out my Evernote today and came across this article I had saved from one of their magazines in the past. (By the way, Evernote is a great blogger tool.)
The thing that caught my attention again was a quote from the famous painter, Monet:
My life has been nothing but a failure and all that’s left for me to do is to destroy my paintings before I disappear.
-Monet
How many times in ministry have I felt that way? I don’t know the real number but it’s usually been after pouring all of my energy into a project or an event and have nothing but feedback of complaints. In those times emotions run so high it’s easy to have an ethical breakdown. For others, it can be when things are piling up, deadlines loom, to-do lists are too long, and stress is too powerful. [Read More]
It’s difficult sometimes to look at yourself as you are without comparing yourself to someone else. Much of the time, this self-comparison will put you into a “grass is greener” mentality. We see others as the facade they show and wish we could be more like them. We see ourselves behind the facade we show, and wish we weren’t like we really are.
In ministry, there are tons of molds for each little position. It has become so ingrained in us that we hardly realize it anymore. Just think of a word associating game and find out what mold pops into your mind with the following words. [Read More]
Teens have a frightening task as they near the end of High School. They are to decide, as soon as possible, what they want to do for the rest of their lives. A lot of them are pressured to choose the logical path. Many choose the wrong path.
