Thoughts on Excellence Free E-Newsletter Series
Volume 23, Issue No. 8a
April 1, 2024
By Dan Coughlin
Here is a bit of a review before I add another element to your Essential Walks.
Your essence as a person consists of your thoughts, emotions, and will. What you are thinking, what you are feeling, and the direction your life is heading in affect your decisions, words, and actions.
A very important factor within your essence is your faith. In MWD (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) faith is defined as firm belief in something for which there is no proof.
What you believe to be true in ideas, people, organizations, and physical realties affects what you think, what you feel, and what direction you are heading your life in. You may not have factual, empirical evidence, but your faith, your belief, in this person or topic is so strong that it influences the rest of your essence.
On this Essential Walk, I encourage you to focus on clarifying your faith, your firm beliefs about certain people and certain ideas and certain organizations, and then consciously determining if this is the faith that you want to have guiding your life’s decisions, words, and actions. Once you consciously land on the faith that you want guiding your life, then you are set to move forward again.
Essential Walk Questions for You to Consider
- What or who do you have faith in?
- What do you believe to be true about this idea or item or person or group?
- Why do you believe that?
- How does that belief affect your decisions, words, and actions?
- Are these the decisions, words, and actions that you consciously want in your life?
- If yes, how can you strengthen your underlying faith, your underlying beliefs that you want to hold firmly onto?
- If not, what changes do you want to make to your underlying faith, your underlying beliefs that you are firmly holding onto right now?
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