Our spiritual growth is usually imperceptible expect through the rearview lens of time. Our cells have been instilled with our memories; thus, to receive someone else’s cells is to receive their memories at the same time. People who delve into the details of whatever ignites their passion will always impress others with their mental vitality. The way our unconscious mind works, we are actually attracted to—moved psychologically toward—what we think about. Most of us seek a connection with a higher power at crucial moments in life—marriage, divorce, birth, and death. Many people are seeking out personal spiritual counselors who help them become more themselves by rewriting the terms in which they see their lives. The goal here is not to examine and change, but to find a story that makes individuals comfortable with who and what they are. The rise of the conforming individual is altering the traditional business model of treating your employees like people who work for your company. Consultants insist that to succeed, employers must treat employees as friends. Ask them how they feel, what they want, and make sure they can grow on the job. The goal is to reshape the narrative of their working life around their own sense of worth and identity. It is suggested that employees are told that the job is not about profits and success, it is to help you grow as a person and learn skills that will make us all successful. #RandolphHarris 1 of 6

When people believe that their jobs are about personal growth, it helps to retain them as an employee. It keeps them loyal and motivated. A new corporate language has been invented to support people’s need to believe that their work is actually an endless quest for originality. The corporate culture is changing to help people operate from a more soulful place because in the past people were bleeding, their souls were bleeding in the workplace, people were suffering at work, before they even leave the front door. Companies are realizing that what is affecting the bottom line is the attitude and discontent of their employees. And now, there is a much more beneficial approach, more consciousness around how leaders are managing their people. Mistakes are a fact of life. Learning to skillfully play the piano is essentially impossible without making thousands of mistakes—maybe even a million. Success is not the absence of failure, but going from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm. We are increasingly zealous about standing out, announcing ourselves as special. We refuse to have our lives subsumed by antediluvian tradition. However, the more we strike out on our own, the more we feel truly alone. On our own, we are less able to find meaning in what we do and be satisfied with who we are. #RandolphHarris 2 of 6

Unwavering faith will help us go from failure to failure until we finally obtain success. We are seldom prepared to go it alone: The vast majority of us still want to be recognized in business, noticed at church, and redeemed by marriage. This fantasy has altered our relationship to work, family, faith, education—almost every institutional structure that exists. The fantasy of total freedom seems to constantly undermine our lives to the extent that a successful entrepreneur and family person is always dissatisfied, convinced that to move forward one must be more creative, bolder, willing to completely reinvent one’s life today, tomorrow, next year, or next month. The Lord knows that these things shall give us experience, and shall be for our good. God allows us to take the bitter, that we may know to prize the good. Also, the battle is the Lord’s, and it is only by his grace that we can accomplish his work and become like him. The trials we face are to hep us develop and hone scores of Godlike attributes that cannot be refined except through opposition and in the furnace of affliction. Visualization works best when we associate ourselves with the optimistic expression of what we want rather than the negative aspects. #RandolphHarris 3 of 6

Think of visualization as the power of successful thinking. We are not only anticipating the best, you are allying ourselves with it. For that reason, when we encounter the inevitable barriers on our way to our goal, we will tend to look at the problem from the winner’s side. While we are grateful for second chances following mistakes, or failures of the mind, we stand all amazed at the Savior’s grace in giving us second chances in overcoming sin, or failures of the heart. Most people improve their attitudes and dispositions significantly when they envision someone helping them. This is a simple yet powerful demonstration of how maintaining a vision of what we desire will support us in accomplishing our goals. No one is more on our side than the Savior. He allows us to take and keep retaking his exams. To become like him will require countless second chances in our daily struggles with the natural humans, such as controlling appetites, learning patience and forgiveness, overcoming slothfulness, and avoiding sins of omission, just to name a few. If to err is human nature, how many failures will it take us until our nature is no longer human but divine? Thousands? More likely a million. The proof of any creative endeavor is its outcome. At some point we must decide which combination of ideas will yield the best results. #RandolphHarris 4 of 6

Knowing that the strait and narrow path would be strewn with trials and that failures would be a daily occurrence for us, the Savior paid an infinite price to give us as many chances as it would take to successfully pass our mortal probation. The opposition which he allows can often seem insurmountable and almost impossible to bear, yet God does not leave us without hope. This is what faith does for us as long as it is sincere. However, even here, the clearance will not be complete if we continue to worry over the question of salvation and the ultimate well-being of the soul. This, too, must have a clearance, a redemption, and a new birth. There is a power for good which is responding to us and bringing into our experiences everything that is necessary to our unfoldment, to our happiness, to our peace, to our health, and to our success. There is a power of God that enables us to help others and to bless the whole World. To keep our hope resilient as we face life’s trials, the Savior’s grace is ever ready and ever present. His grace is a divine means of help or strength, an enabling power that allows people to lay hold on eternal life and exaltation after we have expended our own best efforts. #RandolphHarris 5 of 6

 God’s grace and his loving eyes are upon us throughout our entire journey as he inspires, lightens burdens, strengthens, delivers, protects, heals, and otherwise succors his people, even as they stumble along the strait and narrow path. Repentance is God’s ever accessible gift that allows and enables us to go from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm. Sovereign and almighty Lord, bless all thy people, and all thy flock. Give thy peace, thy help, thy love unto us they children, the obedient of thy fold, that we may be united in the bond of peace and love, one body and one spirit, in one hope of calling, in thy divine and boundless love. Lord, be with us this day, within us to purify us; above us to draw us up; beneath us to sustain us; before us to lead us; behind us to restrain us; around us to protect us. A change of mind and heart that brings a fresh attitude toward God, oneself, and in life is general is what we gain through repentance. That kind of change results in spiritual growth. Our success, then, is not going from failure to failure, but from growing from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm. In our weakness, God reassures us, “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” The is a World of its own that lives in the heart, not in the head.  #RandolphHarris 6 of 6