Banana Split

Through our connection to the LIFE community and the information provided by leaders like Orrin and Laurie Woodward and Dan and Lisa Hawkins, my family has been inspired to grow our faith.  We have begun the process of developing a family culture; not only appreciating each other, but also the time we’ve been given as a family.  This is something that I formerly didn’t understand the true value of.  The following video is about an idea one mom had to make the most of her short time with her son, and use their situation to create awareness for people around the world to take the time to cherish a moment, and a banana split, with the ones they love.  I challenge everyone to do this, not only to honor Ryan and his mother, but to honor those you cherish most with your #1 asset: your time.

May God bless Ryan, his mother, and you!

Fisher’s LIFE Subscription Top Ten – May 2012

Hey, Hey!  Happy May.

The LIFE and MFC (mental fitness challenge) are having such an amazing impact on communities and lives across the nation.  It is breathtaking and hair-raising, as we continue to hear the changes that people are able to make with new information.  I was at a challenge group last night and heard a gentleman share from his heart what he had learned and how it was impacting his marriage and relationships with his children; it was amazing.  So we want to hear from you, too.

We are going to post our top quote and then we want to know yours.

“Maybe your net worth to the world could be stated as your good habits minus your bad habits?”

Spread the word and send the subscribers you know here to add their two cents. We will post the top ten from your point of view.  Let’s see who is listening and reading out there and what valuable takeaways were in the May LIFE subscriptions.

Fisher’s LIFE Subscription Top Ten – April 2012

1.  A lot of times the first idea that hits your subconscious mind becomes the strongest one and sometimes gets stuck in there.

2.  People have control of only three things in life:  the thoughts you think, the images you visualize and the actions you take.

3.   What a budget does is take the impulse out of buying.

4.  Define success because that gives you a starting point.

5.  You can save a lot of money when you pack something to eat verses eating out.

6.  Your kids are gonna learn about the birds and the bees from someone by age 7, and the first one they hear it from will form their foundational thoughts about it.

7.  Don’t let the next five years go by without defining some milestones for yourself.

8.  “My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed,”  Andrew “Stonewall” Jackson.

9.  It’s not so much about what you do, it’s about who you are.

10.  As we start to fix problems, we start to see the real problem is us.

Thanks so much to everyone who makes it possible for us to get this life-changing information!

Richard and Jammie Fisher

UFC and MMA – How About MFC?

In the field of MMA and UFC there is a term called fight camp.  It’s an intense period of sustained training, usually carried out over eight to ten weeks before a scheduled bout.  It’s during this camp when trainers and partners help prepare a competitor for an upcoming bout.

The movie Warrior captures the intense determination it takes to compete in this field, along with an inspiring story of a family through the dream, struggle and victory. We had the chance to see this movie and I appreciated the many parallels one can draw from it to life.

For many, though, our only way to participate in sports at the professional level, is as an onlooker to someone else’s dream, struggle and victory experience.  In his most recent book, Resolved, Orrin Woodward so clearly lays out how to define and refine your purpose.  Then . . . fight camp!  MFC (mental fitness challenge) is the latest program in the LIFE community.  It offers an intense period of sustained training carried out over 13 weeks including audio and visual training, accountability partners, 360 degree feedback and much more.  The intention is that people are able to afford to tap into the knowledge base that propelled Woodward and many of his business partners to top levels of leadership and success in many areas of life.  Then that information is applied directly to the goal in whatever area, arena or vocation one chooses.  Check out the details from Orrin and co-founder of LIFE, Chris Brady.  If you are intrigued, don’t miss the chance to hear the rest of the program details live this weekend in Columbus, Ohio.

It is inspiring to think about the changes in the lives of people as goals are set, training is completed and people step in to the ring in passionate pursuit of their goals and ultimately their purpose.

Review the program, get started with your training and in no time it’ll be round one as you begin the fight for the life you’ve always wanted!

Life Compensation Plan

We cannot overstate our excitement and anticipation for the details in this article and further details to come on April 27-29!

1. Check this out:  Life Compensation Plan from Chris Brady.

2.  Secure your ticket and make plans to be there.

3.  Invite others who wish to grow themselves, help others find materials to do the same and profit in the process.

Richard and Jammie

Powerful Thought from C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis confessed that he too struggled with how to truly love the sinner while hating the sin.  One day it suddenly became clear:

It occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life – namely myself.  However much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself.  There had never been the slightest difficulty about it.  In fact the very reason why I hated the things was that I love the man.  Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man who did those things.

We extend this charity to ourselves, so the question begs to be asked: Why do we not extend this same charity to our spouse (Feel free to insert children, friends, parents, teammates, strangers or any other fitting person here)?

As I read the above excerpt from C.S. Lewis, as quoted by Gary Thomas, it received a big, bold star next to the underlining it earned on my first read.  It is better to be reminded than instructed, and I appreciated the reminder.  Not only to do to others what I’d want done to me, but give others the grace I so willingly give to myself.

This is my mission if I choose to accept it (this message will not self destruct in 5 seconds 🙂 ).

Second Sowing

I am rereading a book that was recommended to me by LIFE founder Lisa Hawkins, called Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas.  I am enjoying the book overall for how it applies to me growing in my relationship with the Lord, but there are so many nuggets along the way.  This is one I’d like to share.

There is a section that tells the story of Anne Lindbergh and the loss of her son.  It is closed with a poem and some commentary from the author that really spoke to me about how having a hardened or broken heart can really damage ones self so much, and that softening and loving again are often the hardest, but only ways to ever end that time.  I cannot compare any of my experience to what she endured, but I have learned from it and I hope this can be a blessing to others as it was to me.

Second Sowing by Anne Lindbergh

For whom
The milk ungiven in the breast
When the child is gone?
For whom the love locked up in the heart
That is left alone?
That golden yield
Split sod once, overflowed an August field,
Threshed out in pain upon September’s floor,
Now hoarded high in barns, a sterile store.
Break down the bolted door;
Rip open, spread and pour
The grain upon the barren ground
Wherever crack in clod is found.
There is no harvest for the heart alone;
The seed of love must be
Eternally
Resown.

The author Gary Thomas continues: As long as our pain and wisdom and lessons are “locked up in the heart” or “hoarded high in barns,” they remain sterile and unfertile.  To grow in the midst of difficulties, we must “rip open” the bags of grain and seeds and pour them out wherever we see fertile ground.