The Miter Box: Life From a Different Angle
A Blog by David Jacob SmithLiving Life on Purpose
What course is your life set on? Based on your life’s current trajectory (the sum total of your actions and choices), where do you think you will be five or ten years from now.
The Gift of a Life of Substance
At what level do you find yourself living life most of the time? My guess is that the majority of us have come to live a large part of our lives on a rather shallow and superficial level. If we are in touch at all with the deeper thoughts, feelings and emotions of our...
Self Fulfillment is Overrated
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...
Image Is Everything
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 fixated on...
Belief and Behavior
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....
Living Favor Minded
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...