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8 Reasons to Never Make Another New Year Resolution

New Year’s resolutions are a common way for people to set goals and make changes in their lives. However, research has shown that a majority of people who make New Year’s resolutions end up breaking them within a few months. If you want to achieve your goals and make lasting changes, hiring a coach who can help you create systems may be a better option. Here are 8 reasons why:

  1. Systems focus on small, incremental changes, making it easier to stick to your goals.
  2. Systems are specific and measurable, so you can track your progress and stay motivated.
  3. A coach can provide accountability and support to help you stay on track.
  4. A coach can help you identify and overcome any obstacles or challenges that may come up.
  5. A coach can help you create a personalized plan that works for you and your specific goals.
  6. A coach can help you stay focused and motivated when things get tough.
  7. Working with a coach can help you develop new skills and strategies that can help you achieve your goals.
  8. Hiring a coach can be a great investment in yourself and your future.

If you’re ready to take control of your life and achieve your goals, consider hiring a coach like Ron Shank. Ron is a certified coach who specializes in helping people create systems for their goals and providing the accountability needed to reach them faster. Don’t let another year go by without making progress toward your goals. Take the first step towards success and hire a coach like Ron Shank today.

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Top Ten Reasons I Never Bathe

I was forced to as a child.
People who bathe are hypocrites – they think they are cleaner than everybody else.
There are so many different kinds of soap, I can’t decide which one is best.
I used to bathe, but I got bored and stopped.
I bathe only on special occasions, like Christmas and Easter.
None of my friends bathe.
I’ll start bathing when I get older and dirtier.
I can’t spare the time.
The bathroom is never warm enough in winter or cool enough in summer.
People who make soap are only after your money.

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Obviously, I bathe. These are poor excuses not to bathe.

Do you know what else I do? I go to church regularly. 🙂

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The Attitude of a Calvinist


I’ve been tossed into 2 (or maybe 3) conversations this week alone about Calvinism, God’s sovereignty, and other closely related subjects. It’s so difficult to have this conversation in a few minutes when it took me months to come to the point I am now.  But in dealing with any objections, I am reminded of these quotes from Charles Simeon:

Many there are who cannot see these truths [the doctrines of God’s sovereignty], who yet are in a state truly pleasing to God; yea many, at whose feet the best of us may be glad to be found in heaven. It is a great evil, when these doctrines are made a ground of separation one from another, and when the advocates of different systems anathematize each other. . . . In reference to truths which are involved in so much obscurity as those which relate to the sovereignty of God mutual kindness and concession are far better than vehement argumentation and uncharitable discussion (Horae Homileticae, Vol. 15, p. 357).

And look at this transcript of his conversation with John Wesley.

Sir, I understand that you are called an Arminian; and I have been sometimes called a Calvinist; and therefore I suppose we are to draw daggers. But before I consent to begin the combat, with your permission I will ask you a few questions. Pray, Sir, do you feel yourself a depraved creature, so depraved that you would never have thought of turning to God, if God had not first put it into your heart?

Yes, I do indeed.

And do you utterly despair of recommending yourself to God by anything you can do; and look for salvation solely through the blood and righteousness of Christ?

Yes, solely through Christ.

But, Sir, supposing you were at first saved by Christ, are you not somehow or other to save yourself afterwards by your own works?

No, I must be saved by Christ from first to last.

Allowing, then, that you were first turned by the grace of God, are you not in some way or other to keep yourself by your own power?

No.

What then, are you to be upheld every hour and every moment by God, as much as an infant in its mother’s arms?

Yes, altogether.

And is all your hope in the grace and mercy of God to preserve you unto His heavenly kingdom?

Yes, I have no hope but in Him.

Then, Sir, with your leave I will put up my dagger again; for this is all my Calvinism; this is my election, my justification by faith, my final perseverance: it is in substance all that I hold, and as I hold it; and therefore, if you please, instead of searching out terms and phrases to be a ground of contention between us, we will cordially unite in those things wherein we agree. (Moule, 79f)   (Source: Brothers, We Must Not Mind a Little Suffering :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library.)