As Forrest Gump once said:

"Stupid is as stupid does."

A person is ignorant when they don't know what to do.

A stupid person knows what to do but doesn't do it.

Benjamin Franklin once said:

This is the time of year for Christmas lists…from the youngest family member to the oldest.

As our family members grow in age. . .so do the price of their toys.

Dale Evans, wife of Roger Rogers, my childhood heroes once said:

“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.”

Roy L. Smith, a renowned Methodist writer of Sunday School literature, once said:

During two days last week on the Rich Thoughts For Breakfast phone calls we discussed seven scriptural insights to a better life.

These insights are all contained in Ecclesiastes 5:18-20 in the Message Bible which says:

“After looking at the way things are on this earth, here’s what I’ve decided is the best way to live: Take care of yourself, have a good time, and make the most of whatever job you have for as long as God gives you life. And that’s about it. That’s the human lot. Yes, we should make the most of what God gives, both the bounty and the capacity to enjoy it, accepting what’s given and delighting in the work. It’s God’s gift! God deals out joy in the present, the now. It’s useless to brood over how long we might live.”

As I’ve read and re-read that verse in preparing the teachings. . .I was stirred by Ecclesiastes 5:19 which says:

"I went to the enemy's camp and I took back what he stole from me. 

“Took back what he stole from me. 

“Took back what he stole from me….

“He's under my feet."

10.  Today…purpose in your heart not to waste time on things that don’t matter.  Maximize your moments.

  9.  Where we see lack…God sees the potential for abundance.

  8.  It’s not what we know but what we do with what we know that makes us somebody successful.  Be a doer of the Word.

  7.  Thank a veteran that you still live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

  6.  Your body may be in pain but you determine whether or not your thoughts are painful.

Here are the Top 5 Rich Thoughts Nuggets of the week.

  5.  There is never a dead end in your life…unless you make it so.

  4.  When you do your best. . .you will often become the best.           

  3.  What’s in our hands is a seed.  What’s in God’s hands is our harvest.

  2.  Peace and prosperity allow you to sleep at night without a pill and awaken each day to unlimited possibilities.

 # 1 Rich Thoughts Nugget you selected is:

  1.  Set your goals so high that it will take God to help you reach them.

I'm going to share with you two verses which describe an event that changed the course of human history.

Luke 3:21-22 says:

²¹ Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

²² And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.”

You may feel as though you've totally blown it. . .but God still has your back!

The question you need to ask yourself is. . .what can I learn from this situation so I don’t mess up again. . .at least, not for the same reasons.

Write Down Exactly What Happened.

It’s important to recall every step you took and decision you made which precipitated your fall.

10.  Your I.Q. may be in the stratosphere but if your feet aren't firmly planted in His Word you'll never leave the ground.

  9.  Your potential is too great...your destiny too powerful...to let someone hijack your future.

  8.  Never go into your workplace without being prayed up, praised up, encouraged and determined to have a great day.

  7.  When someone says:  "I've heard that before."  My question to them is:  "what have you done with what you've previously heard.”

  6.  Today...be as creative as you want to be....and as creative as God intended you to be.

Here are the Top 5 Rich Thoughts Nuggets of the week.

  5.  Stop being limited by your imagination.  Allow the mind of Christ to function fully and freely within you.

  4.  Would you allow anyone to dump a garbage bag on your living room floor?  Then why allow them to pour negative stinky stuff in your head?

  3.  If you try to make everybody else happy...you're the one person who won't be happy.

  2.  Do whatever is necessary to keep your vision in front of you by removing all hindrances to its manifestatio

 # 1 Rich Thoughts Nugget you selected is:

  1.  If you want to succeed at everything you do...seek wisdom from someone who's been there before...wherever ‘there’ might be.

Why were you born?

I can tell you it wasn’t just because your Mom and Dad wanted to have a child.

You were born for a purpose. . .God knew you before you were formed in your mother’s womb.

Yet, too few believers understand their purpose or why they were born.

Ephesians 5:14:

“Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”

When we think about Walt Disney we don't think about his failures such as being fired by a newspaper editor who said he lacked creativity and imagination or the bankruptcies he experienced.

Walt Disney never took failure as final...or “No” as the last word.  That's why he's still making dreams come true decades after his passing. 

Here are seven of my favorite Disney quotes.  I urge you to print out this listing and write how you can apply them to your life...so your dreams can come true too.

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”