Peer Pressure Continued

In the last installment I listed four ways to help you overcome peer pressure.  I wanted to retouch on this subject because I have had a couple people come up to me asking about it again.

Everybody, at one time or another, has felt the power of peer pressure.  It comes at us when we are faced with a decision that effects what others think about us.  When someone passes you a joint and just when you’re about to say no everyone gets quiet and looks at you.  How about when someone has asked if you have had sex yet?  Or on a smaller scale when you are pressured to lie.  How do we handle these situations?  What kind of feelings are being activated on the inside of us?

Let’s find out!

Getting Beyond the $50,000 Mark.

Have you ever wondered why does it seem like you can’t get past a certain level of income?  Have you ever felt that no matter how hard you have tried you are still finding yourself resorting to credit cards to pay your bills?

There is a reason why you are getting frustrated.  There is a reason why you aren’t making more money.  Ready to find out why?

The $8.00 per Hour Mindset

I was talking with a friend of mine who is a supervisor at her job.  She began to describe to me one of the situations she is dealing with.  One of her subordinates felt as though she deserved to make more than what she was currently making - $8.00/hour.  So since she wasn’t making the money she wanted to she decided that because they were paying her $8.00/hour then she’ll give them $8.00/hour worth of work.

So the question is - how does slowing down your production time and output levels change the circumstances that surround you?

Mind-sets for Young Adults, Part 2

by Jeffrey Harrington 

Last time we ended on how there are things in this world that are trying to seduce you and grab hold of you.  These things are only a temporary fix on a bigger problem.  The things that try and seduce you are things like money, drugs, and power.  For me it was the money and the drugs which brings a false sense of power and a whole lot of so called friends.

Mind-Sets For Young Adults

How Todays Entertainment Industry Can effect Our Mind-sets
by Jeffrey Harrington 

Young adults are exposed to a lot of stuff these days.  Stuff designed to mold minds into a certain way of thinking.  Most of our influence today is done through movies, television, music, and literature.  Look at what we have to look up to as role models now: most of the music out there promotes selling drugs, pimping women, flashing money, how many sex partners they have, and the list goes on and on. Ninety percent of what’s on t.v. is absolute trash. 

Faith Explained

The word “faith”, translated from the Greek πιστις (pi’stis), was primarily used in the New Testament with the Greek perfect tense and translates as a noun-verb hybrid; which is not adequately conveyed by the English noun. Pi’stis in the New Testament context is a physical action, based upon a mental belief and sustained with confidence. Belief, in this context is non-synonymous with faith because, belief primarily conveys the mental action, thought of confidence, trust, and/or firm persuasion, not the physical act.[1]

The Faith Advantage

Faith: the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  This is a definition found in Hebrews 11 used many times to describe what faith is.  Read it here.

Faith is the belief in something you can’t see.  Some people call this belief in the impossible.  But all things are possible to them that believe.  So in essence faith can be called something that turns the impossible possible.

Peer Pressure

“Everybody’s doing it.  You don’t want to be the only one left out do you?  Come on, just this once.  You’ll miss out!”

The above lines are only a small percentage of what we hear when trapped in the middle of a decision aided by the weight of peer pressure.

No Way Out

Suicide is one subject that weights heavily on my heart.  For someone to say, “there is no way out,” means they feel trapped in a corner and there are no possible solutions to any of the problems they are facing.  And that simply isn’t true.

The People Around You

You know as I was walking around Publix yesterday thinking about all the foods I can’t eat while I’m on my diet.  I began to look around and take notice to all the different people around me.  And the more I noticed them the more I began to think about them.