The Best Minute: On “your truth,” focus, and effort

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Bret McCracken on why “your truth” isn’t truth:

“‘Your truth’ autonomy invariably leads to loneliness. It erroneously suggests we can live unencumbered and uninfluenced by the various structures that surround us (families, churches, cultures, biology, etc.). But it becomes impossible to form community when everyone is their own island, with no necessary reliance upon larger truths or embeddedness within a bigger story.

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II. Thomas Edison on the power of focus:

“You do something all day long, don’t you? Everyone does. If you get up at seven o’clock and go to bed at eleven, you have put in sixteen good hours, and it is certain with most people, that they have been doing something all the time. They have been either walking, or reading, or writing, or thinking. The only trouble is that they do it about a great many things and I do it about one.

If they took the time in question and applied it in one direction, to one object, they would succeed. Success is sure to follow such application. The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object, one thing, to which they stick, letting all else go. Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.”

2 IDEAS FROM ME

I. You can’t control your results, but you can control your effort. When you receive bad results, don’t be overly discouraged about your results if your effort was not what it should have been.

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II. Here are three practical ways to grow closer to God:

Fast from lunch or dinner once a week
Increase your giving by 1%
Recite the Lord’s prayer once a day

1 INTERESTING FACT

The French Army was the first to use camouflage in 1915 (World War I).

The word ‘camouflage’ actually comes from the French verb meaning ‘to make up for the stage’. This is because the French Army was the first to create a dedicated camouflage unit in 1915. Guns and vehicles were painted by artists called camofleurs. The following year, the British Army followed suit and established its own camouflage section under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Wyatt.

Source: Expatica