Winning at Life “No Regrets”: Daily Insights and Inspirational Guide to Inspire and Enlighten You

By David R Bradley MHA

David R. Bradleys book Wining at Life, No Regrets takes a journey of life through the authors eyes and experiences as he reflects back to each event through his faith in Christ, professional experiences, and interactions with family and friends. It takes a different approach to inspirational books. The author avoids the traditional approach of writing and seeks to take the reader on a hilly ride through issues in life that are often seen as useless. Bradley uses all his life experiences and envisions them through his faith and the Word of God for outcomes, which assist with conquering the past hurt and developing a vision of a future journey. The information he shares places value on all things and seeks to point out that lifes choices are future investments on success or failure. He attempts to elicit the reader on an inner journey to living as if looking back from the end of lifes road. There are short inspirational quotes and writings to encourage the reader to follow a life with no regrets. The short writings and stories hopefully will challenge readers to think and feel deeply. His desire is for each reader to seek quality of life through love, forgiveness, family, and worship. He believes that faith in God and quality of life is winning in life with no regrets.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781514410486

David R Bradley MHA

David R. Bradley is a freelance writer and college professor living in Orlando, Florida. Mr. Bradley is a native Floridian and army veteran. He worked in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID)/ Fort Detrick, Walter Reed Medical Center and completed one tour in the Persian Gulf War before taking his faith into the world of social services. He has over twenty-five years of experience working in mental health, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse counseling, and working with troubled teens and adults. He has been certified in over five (5) behavior modification interventions. Mr. Bradley has also written over five federal training abstracts for the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health service administration (SAMHSA). He has a master’s degree in health administration and also in business administration. For speaking engagements or responses to the book, please send all emails to [e-mail]

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Winning at Life

No Regrets

Daily Insights and Inspirational Guide to Inspire and Enlighten You

Written and compiled by:

David R Bradley, MHA

Copyright © 2015 by David R Bradley, MHA.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2015915749

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5144-1050-9

                Softcover        978-1-5144-1049-3

                eBook             978-1-5144-1048-6

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Happiness

From Like to Love

Great Women

Relationship Confidence

Telling the Truth

Passion —Not price

Beauty in your eyes

Live with purpose

Heart’s Healing

The Game of Life

Peace

Winter’s Pain and Summer’s Joy

Strength and weakness

To be satisfied

Rights

Honest Me

Leaf of Life

Competition

Challenge Fear

Character

Change

Love is like water

Decisions

Real Art: Communication

Love, the Treasure we Seek

The wisdom of time

Living in the present

True Educators

The Happiness in Change

Life’s Lemonade Stand

Living in the Moment

Perfect flaws

Today

It Can’t Be Fixed

My Smile

Food for the Heart

Culture as a Thing

Assault on Love: Wives and Husbands

Virtue

The meaning of life

The truth about love

Live in the moment

Emotions and Communication

Truth Hurts

Introduction

There are stories told; old and new, from generation to generation to define life. And in the definition, seasons, holidays, business, fun, and wealth become the borders. From the defined great to the less defined small we all grow old and constantly seek meaning and purpose. In the midst of the search, other thoughts arise concerning truth, wisdom, happiness and worldly mysteries. Other complications are intrinsic. The small inner voice calling for justice, honesty and integrity to the things we know and believe to be true. The mind fighting the struggle without, and the soul fighting the struggle from within. The inner man reaching for balance, righteousness, perfection and the plum line of truth. In the end some will conclude that there remains a cost for finding answers to life’s question of why? The answer is understanding that the beautiful life is not the one defined but the one that is free. It is freedom from what God has demanded and a price we could not pay. Concluding that there is no true definition of life but there is a race that can be won. It’s not a definition; it’s winning, and this is peace with God.

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There is never an answer to life or to chance. You gain understanding, rewind the clock and do it again. All we have is the present and what we lost in the past or what grace brought us to the future is our answer. There is no point in beating ourselves up from what we could have been. This is not of God and is a dangerous and useless emotion. To wonder about life with what ifs. It is the present that we must answer to. The right now, from the fuel of yesterday. To make the most of the present, and if love is what calls, answer the phone. If mercy, service, or forgiveness, do it with all your might. For emotions and wondering can never guide us, only confuse us. For we have been given daily instruction so let us follow the map. For any other thoughts of wondering, feeling, evoking mind bending confusion leads to no answers and no productivity. Focus and think, never wonder. Guide your thoughts and emotions with truth daily. It is health to the body, mind, and soul. And leads to real purpose and direction.

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The difference between believe and deceive. To deceive is only to promise. To believe is promises based on a covenant.

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You should not have to lower your standards to find love, but you should have standards to be loved.

Happiness

And the escalation of my body to have tasted happy, the glimpse of a smile and to laugh hilariously. And the tickling is my siesta and the hug, the beginning of fun. Like rain drops from the sky. Beautiful as they fall and sad to try to get it to do it again when the moment is right and I have readied my surrounding in preparation. What is this happy and the feeling of it? Why happy? Is there not another, above, over? To get beyond the ups and downs? And there is in us a place that never forgets what it feels like to have the sun in our face or the moon in our eyes in the right moments. Is it our drug? Is happy never ending? Seeking it again and finding moments and not peace. There is an end to this ride. Nothing wrong with it but virtue is a place I can reside; I can attain. Not to wait for or to seek but to not have to repeat happy. Peace is the end of a rainbow. To search no more, yet be content in the end. The completion of my emotions. Finding happy in making others happy.

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Your greatest weapon against adversity is preparation. Be prepared for reality. Leverage the risk.

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God is not concerned about your happiness, only his purpose. His purpose is your perfection. Find happiness in the perfection process.

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There is a greater weakness, which is not to point or to lift it up and say, Hey, this is it. Not for us to point and judge, but my fear and true judgment is having the ability to judge righteousness. To know truth in the inward part. To look and see the value of what is measuring us. In this may our soul see, not beauty or outward judgment from inner darkness. But see our human detriment, an enemy, an attack on our eternity. When comparing truth to