Category Archives: self-help

Curiosity Needs Wise Caution

Posted on August 2, 2025 by Steve Simms

Before you allow your curiosity to nudge you to pursue something, it’s best to use mental caution. Innocent curiosity if not monitored and guided by wisdom can lead down dangerous paths. A person (or a cat) who is overly curious … Continue reading →

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Self-Improvement Comes from Effective Effort Not from Aging

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Steve Simms

Self-improvement requires both mental and physical effort. The mere passing of time seldom improves a human being. Personal, mental, and spiritual growth require persistent hard work. The promised land that Christians are called to take, the walk we are called … Continue reading →

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Christian Self-Help Makes Me Feel Loved

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Steve Simms

There’s so much self-help for a Christian to do: “Repent.”“Fight the good fight of faith.”“Resist the devil.”“Draw near to God.”“Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.”“Press toward the mark of the prize of the high calling God in … Continue reading →

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The College of Daily Life

Posted on January 2, 2025 by Steve Simms

Perhaps the greatest higher education comes from closely observing and learning from daily life. Are you passing the classes in the college of daily life? Begin to observe the direct cause and effect between what people think, say, and do … Continue reading →

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Inner Athletes

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Steve Simms

The athletes I respect the most are inner athletes — those who compete against and overcome the inner agonies that try to torment them with the bondage of discouragement, moral defeat, and heart-breaking despair. I admire the ones who go … Continue reading →

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Blogging Helps Free Me from Self-Focus

Posted on August 30, 2024 by Steve Simms

My greatest moments of joy and self-contentment are moments of self-unawareness. The best self-help isn’t self-expression. It’s self-denial that avoids self-inflicted pain. Self-focus isn’t self-care. It’s self-entanglement. Self-indulgence leads to the self-reproach of self-inflicted guilt. Self-will will keep you imprisoned … Continue reading →

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3 P-Word Jobs

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Steve Simms

I’ve had (and continue to have) 3 P-Word jobs: 1. Preemptive obedience: That job is to reject the option of disobedience even before I know what God is going to prompt me to do. It is to live by this … Continue reading →

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Open Up to Agape

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Steve Simms

Every dayI can open upTo agape. When Christ came to payThe price for my sin,That was agape. When Jesus calls meTo follow and obeyHim throughout the day,That is agape. Every time I prayAnd God fills meWith His joy,That’s agape. When … Continue reading →

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Doing differently

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Steve Simms

It takes courage to think differently than your feelings and the people around you. Dare to think beyond your mimicking mind. Without the willingness to think differently you’ll stay stuck in your old thought patterns. If you want to overcome … Continue reading →

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Aligning with wisdom

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Steve Simms

When my thoughts, feelings, desires and behaviors are unaligned with wisdom they produce varying amounts of confusion, chaos, and consternation in my life. Therefore, it is important to me to work on aligning my mind, my heart, and my actions … Continue reading →

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