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Author Archives: Jim Baker I’ve heard it called “#virtuesignalling And we’re all real good at it. Agreeing loudly with an ideal in the presence of others who think like us. Maybe someone spoke up and shared an idea and we’ll make sure to let everyone know that we too are in alignment with this #philosophy and #idea. Even more […]  Wall of text incoming… Woke up to this letter this morning. This is almost getting comical, except its not funny. In the past few months we have lost 8 committed regular supporters. Everyone who has stopped has given really solid reasons as to why they are stopping so there is zero condemnation or judgement, that’s not […] I’m going to start writing a bit more on medium now instead of here. https://medium.com/@jimjessbaker/ Feel free to follow I’ve really been loving youtube. I like finding interviews with interesting people. The other day I saw an interview with Mad Dog Mattis. He mentioned the Commandant’s reading list. I love to see the books that other people are recommending. One that jumped out to me was The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield. You’ve probably […] Why can’t I make forward progress?! I know what I want to do, but when I try to get there it just doesn’t work! This morning I took time to write out a morning routine. I put it on paper, well digital paper, but it was no longer a thought in my head, but a […] I was at my parents over Thanksgiving and thought to myself… “My parents keep a much cleaner house now…” Then it dawned on me. Oh. Maybe it’s because I don’t live with them anymore. I love tidiness. And when I say I love it, that doesn’t mean I do it. I’m currently typing this on my […] I love dreaming. I love thinking about an ideal future. Today I feel an urgency to get some of my dreams out of dream mode and drag them into reality with some written goals. That is the difference between head in the clouds dreaming a real concrete vision. A good leader can see the ideal […] Last year I received a phone call from Jimmie. Through tears he told me that our friend Cowboy had passed. I remember sitting later in Jimmie’s lawn and our friend Ben came by and we all kind of stared at nothing together. I met Cowboy for the first time when he was speaking at a […] Don’t take for granted what you’ve been taught. Not everyone has had the same privilege to learn what you know. As I wrote this thought down this morning, I felt like the Lord spoke “gently instruct” to my mind and so I looked up that phrase knowing it was in the Bible. Here it is. […] Another Friday had rolled around, this was going to be my last time hanging out with B. (Read part 1 here.) before we left. I wanted to take him to a movie, because I didn’t think he probably got to go to the movies very much. I picked up Ben at the YWAM base and […] |
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