Be a good receiver

Once I set my heart to it, it's not so hard for me give...of my time, my money, my advice and even more easier for me to give is love and respect!!!

The one thing that is a stumbling block for me, the one thing that I have great difficulty with is being a good receiver...

a pastor at our church once said: don't stop someone's blessing by being a bad receiver...because if someone offersa you something and you refuse to receive it, you are denying them the chance for God to bless them for being a good giver.

I am really bad at receiving, whether it be compliments, help, money, advice, love, respect...the list is endless!!!
I just do not know how to receive without paying someone back in one way or the other.

a good receiver is someone who says "thank you", someone who knows how to ask for help, someone who knows that sometimes someone else knows more about something and trusts in the advice they give, someone who is not afraid to receive love and compassion, someone who can freely run to another's arms for a shoulder to cry on. Someone who understands that the responsibility they have to help someone in need is the same responsibility that other people have to help them when they are in need.

The willingness of the people around me to help me in my time of need has really humbled me to a point of tears and now I realise that I need to learn to receive in order to be sure that the blessings of God fall upon them for being a blessing to me.

So the next time someone offers me anything, I will be more reluctant to say: No, thank you!
and I will choose to rather say: Yes, please!!!

the inner circle

Having a diverse range of friends and acquaintances is very important to ensure that you remain an open-minded and interesting individual but it is even more important that you limit the people that are in your inner circle...

These are the people who rub off on you:
The people you spend the majority of your time with, the people whose opinions you trust, the people with whom you exchange views on life.
These are the people whose english accents you start picking up, the people whose facial expressions you start unconsciously imitating, the people whose favourite words and phrases you start playing around with.
These are the people who ultimately have an influence on you...whether you realise it, or admit or not.
These people are your "environment" and you hve to be sure that the environment is conducive to the achievement of your goals.
What's the use of spending time with people who smoke if you want to stop smoking?
If you are suffering from depression you are not doing yourself a favour by hanging out with people that are just downright negative.
If you are looking to doing something with your life, there's no use hanging out with people that "chill" for a living.

Your inner circle plays a very important role in your attainment of success (in whatever way you define it) and therefore it's important that we learn to rather love some people from a distance if they are not rubbing off the right things on you.
But most importantly, remember that you are a prt of someone else's "inner circle" therefore take a look at the man or woman in the mirror and be honest with yourself... If you were someone else, would you elect to have yourself as part of your "inner circle" or are you just one to be loved from a distance.

The friends you have are your choice, and they will definitely influence the choices you make...CHOOSE right!!!