Posted on July 21, 2025
by Jeff Herringshaw
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I first smoked a cigar in college. Somehow, I had managed to avoid all tobacco before that. When I joined several other film students in a project to tell a story set during a poker game, we decided our set needed to be filled… Continue Reading “Choosing What I REALLY Want”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Accepted, Accomplish, Accomplishments, Appetites, Attracted, Attractive, Christ, Christian, Complete, Completed, Confident, Delight, Desire, desires, Embraced, enamored, Faith, Fill me, Fill me up, Filled, Focus, Fulfilled, Fulfillment, Give it to me, Give me, God, Hope, Hunger, I need, I want, Image, Jesus, Joy, Longing, love, Loved, lust, Needs, Peace, Real Desire, Received, Satisfied, Satsifaction, Seek, Seeking, Thirst, Thought Life, Unshakable, Want, Wants
I loved to do pencil drawings when I was a kid. I received so much affirmation from my sketches that I decided at an early age that I should learn to paint and become a professional artist. But the problem was that for every… Continue Reading “Choosing the Process Over the Product”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Avoidance, bad choices, Complete, Correct, Do it right, Driven, Failure, Failure is unacceptable, Faith, fear, Fear of Failure, Fear of making mistakes, Feeling insecure, Flatland, Get it done, Give Up, Giving Up, good choices, Heart Transformation, Hope, I cannot fail, impossible standards, Insecure, Insecurities, Intimacy with God, Intimacy with Jesus, love, Mature, Maturity, Mistakes, Outside the Box, Pefection, Perfect, Perfect Person, Perfectionism, Perfectionistic, Personal Value, Quit, Quitter, Relationship with God, Right or Wrong, Self condemnation, Self condemning, Self Doubt, Spiritual Maturity, The correct way, The Wrong Way, Transformation, Unrealistic, Unrealistic expectations, Value
Posted on October 21, 2024
by Jeff Herringshaw
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It was my high school Spanish teacher who challenged an old axiom I had heard all my life. “Practice makes perfect.” This little phrase had been a mantra that I had assumed must be in the Bible somewhere because I heard it so much.… Continue Reading “Choosing My Habits”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Bad Habits, Behavior, Cause and effect, Change My Mind, Complete, Defeated, Defeatism, Excuses, God loves me, God loves you, Good Habits, Habits, Making Excuses, Perfection, Practice, Practice Makes Perfect, Reap, Reap what you sow, Reaping and Sowing, Relationships, Repentance, Sow, Transformation
Posted on April 25, 2022
by Jeff Herringshaw
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As a kid, I loved to do pencil drawings. I received so much affirmation from my sketches that I decided at a young age that I should learn to paint and become a professional artist when I grew up. But the problem was that… Continue Reading “Choosing God’s Way of Perfection”
Category: Daily ChoicesTags: Complete, Correctness, Failure, fear, Fear of Failure, Flatland, Fulfilled, God's Expectations, Heart Transformation, Intimacy with God, Intimacy with Jesus, Perfect, Perfection, Perfectionism, Perfectionist, Performance, Performance Orientation, Relationship with God, Relationship with Jesus, The Right Way, The Wrong Way
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