Anyone in the Kansas City area, please check out the Divorce Recovery Boot Camp information at www.midlifedivorcerecovery.com! The boot camp is on January 12 in Overland Park. Some scholarship money is still available. I am so excited about the excellent presenters we have coming. Don't miss this opportunity! If you need more information or need to talk to me personally, call 816-941-4911 or e-mail me at suzysuccess@kc.rr.com


"What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim! Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!” ~ Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist

The word persistence conjures up all kinds of hard, unexciting, boring connotations especially during a midlife divorce and the recovery period that follows. Persistence means getting up every time you're knocked down. Persistence means making another phone call that you don't want to make. Persistence means going on in the face of discouragements and defeats and disasters. I'd rather talk about words like iridescence and smiling and shining and laughing. But persistence is the partner of success no matter what your goal. Whether it's finding a job, or conquering bitterness or learning a new skill or getting in shape or conducting a divorce recovery boot camp. The Greek word translated as "persistence" means "shameless," suggesting freedom from the bashfulness that would stop a person from asking a second time. Knocking once does not indicate perseverance, but "continued" knocking does. I can identify with the word shameless. You can't be bashful in boot camp. You shamelessly stick out your jaw and say, "I'm going to do this! No one is going to stop me! I will not quit! I will press forward until I get what I want!" Persistence pays off with spiritual things, too. Keep praying. Keep asking. Keep knocking. When you do those things ... you will succeed. It's promised. So don't be bashful. Be shameless! Stay in the water until you can swim. And you won't believe the elation you'll feel when you end up at the other end of the pool!

"I tell you, even though he doesn't want to get up and give him anything because he is his friend, he will get up and give him whatever he needs because of his persistence. So I say to you: Keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened for you." Luke 11:8-9 (ISV)