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FORTY. (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Imagine Success What does success look like to you? What would you do differently if you had all you wish you had? Where would you go? What would you spend more time (or less time) doing? What charity would you give more money to, or spend more …
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THIRTY-NINE. (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Spend Time Getting Refreshed So I was learning about the animals in the Bible the other day and I learned about how eagles live a long time, but they are able to stay youthful because they shed their feathers and grow new feathers. I thought about how …
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THIRTY-EIGHT. (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Stop “Waiting on God.” It feels great to say that you are “waiting on God.” You are waiting for him to do something. Whenever He gets ready, he will do it. You feel holy, and pious and spiritual and well…after all it’s important to learn to be …
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THIRTY-SEVEN. (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Imagine it’s someone else’s problem. You can’t have survived for so long without learning how to solve problems. While we hate having problems, there is a thrill we get when we find the solution to a problem that seems to come out of nowhere just in the …
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THIRTY-SIX. (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Stop Cussin’ Yourself Our tongues are very powerful! When I was younger, my older brother and I would get into fist fights. Since he was bigger and stronger than I was, I would have to result to using my words: “You’re so stupid, you’re the stupidest idiot …
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THIRTY-FIVE. (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Garbage in Garbage out When I first started learning to use a computer in school, the instructor told us about the magical way the computer worked: Garbage in = Garbage out If you put in the wrong thing into the computer, you get the wrong results. Our …
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THIRTY-FOUR (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Consider the less privileged. The other day I found myself reading an article in Poize Magazine about Stephanie Okereke and her struggles to help end VVF (Vesico Vaginal Fistula) in Nigeria. VVF often occurs when girls are forced into marriage at a very young age and have …
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THIRTY-THREE (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Lose Some. Life is not a battle. Yet we spend so much time fighting. We always have to be right about everything. One time I was arguing with this guy over his consistent tardiness whenever we were to hang out, and he argued that he was not …
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THIRTY-TWO (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Always do the right thing A friend of mine recently confronted me about using the online library resources for a state I no longer lived in. He was right, I was stealing. Even though he joked about it, and even though I had really good reasons and …
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THIRTY-ONE (57 Ways to Beat Loneliness & Depression) Learn to Quit Growing up I was always told that winners never quit, and quitters never win, but sometimes we have to quit. We have to quit things (or people) that are bad for us, we have to quit doing work we are not passionate about, so …
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