Tricia McNair: Noble Life Ministries

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering   (patience) , kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. " Galatians 5:22 (the italicized is mine)  Self-control is restraint exercised over one's own impulses, emotions, or desires. It is the ability to control one's own desires or impulses. I once had an employee who was highly intelligent but had little emotional intelligence. He was unable to control his emotions or reactions especially under stress.  He often made critical decisions for the project team that was based more on his emotions than what was best for the team.  Unfortunately, I had to put him on a performance plan. That plan required him to take the Emotional Intelligence course that was based on Daniel Goleman's book    "Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (New York: Bantam Books, 2005)".  80 percent of vocational success is related to emotional intelligence. Only, 20 percent...

" Listen, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone. And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength." Deut. 6:4-5(NLT) The soul is our mind, emotions, and will. The mind and the brain co-produce our lives. It is the mind and brain together that produces conscious awareness. The deeper parts of the brain, the brainstem is exceptionally delicate and vulnerable. The mind is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings. It is the seat of the faculty or reason or the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive processes.  The brain is the organ of the mind just as the lungs are the organs for respiration. The mind cannot be localized to particular areas within the brain. It is not physical and investigateable in the the world of science.  Yet, the mind is what the brain does. It can be retrained to ch...

As a  woman in leadership, I found that my life could have many moving parts in one day. This included solving many people's problems.  I was once asked, how did I survive such a busy schedule with children, spouse, executive leadership for large and mid-size companies, university adjunct professor,  and an Associate Pastor at a local church?   I have always been in a "non-typical" woman's role. In 1978, I went to Houston,Texas. I became a computer scientist working on the Space Shuttle computers at NASA. In 1988, I became a minister and an associate pastor in a mainstream denomination church while still keeping my regular secular jobs (bi-vocational). There were many problems to solve and many fires to put out.  The fires were one thing, but the storms of life were an entirely different situation to handle. The storms came fiercely with no warning.  I was having my 15 to 30 minutes of prayer time as suggested when you have a busy schedule. Howeve...