I was leaning on the counter, watching the seconds tick off of the clock at the end of the workday. There was something in me that wanted to grab my head and scream out: “No! NO! NOOOOO! There has to be more than this. I want my life to count for something!” I could not…
“He drinks too much, he is financially irresponsible, and his apartment is gross. But I love him! My parents sent me to see you because they believe I’m making a big mistake!” I wish that were an uncommon thing to hear. But in my office, as well as many of the premarital classes I teach,…
“I was packing jars of jam, and I was going to write ‘FRAGILE’ on the box. But instead, I felt compelled to write the words ‘VERY FRAGILE.’ At that moment it felt like God was telling me that the condition of my life was also fragile … but that He was with me.” She explained…
“Dr. Neecie, I so badly want to be a World Changer. But you have no idea how many times I’ve messed up, hurt people, disappointed my family… How could I possibly become a World Changer?” Last week I wrote about World Changers, and more than any blog in a long time, my email, text messages,…
I was horrified and panicked in the green room. I was being mic’d up for my presentation, and they were reading the bio for someone else! “She’s a philanthropist and a World Changer! Welcome Dr. Neecie Moore!” I was flooded with terror and my heart was pounding. I told the technician mic’ing me up, “They…
“You will probably kick me out of here if I answer those questions honestly. But for once in my selfish life I need to tell someone the truth. I’m married. My marriage is in the toilet. I have a girl I’ve been seeing for about four years. You would say I’m stringing her along, although…
“I’m stressed out of my mind thinking about how I’m going to pull together this major life event two weeks after I get home. There’s just no way!” His response: “You know you don’t have to believe every thought that crosses your mind!” At that moment, sitting on a stool beside Tony Robbins at his…
“Don’t get your hopes up!” were the words the upper classman spoke to me when I was getting ready to compete for the only open chair in the symphonic brass band. “Don’t get my hopes up? You’ve got to be kidding me! I’ve been rehearsing for this, working for this, and sweating bullets over this!…
“Sometimes, it’s the people in your inner circle that keep you from fulfilling your destiny.“ I was sitting in an Advance Your Reach program when I heard a coach say that, and it struck me deeply. I began reflecting on the many times that had occurred in my history. I had just experienced a major…
With red eyes, brimming with tears, his voice broke as he choked out these words, “I was raised in a culture that does not treat women respectfully, and now I’ve lost my wife. I believed those cultural lies for so many years that it’s just too late to make a change, and it’s too late…