“Experience is the foundation for shaping your values and making the most important decisions in your life!” — COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs
The “Colonel’s” VFV Motivational/Inspirational Quotes & Message of the Day!
Good “Tuesday!” Morning “Band of Brothers & Sisters, Connections, Friends, & Patriots.” Welcome from the “Colonel’s Foxhole” in Conroe, TX — 17 September 2024!
Today’s Message is: “Experience Day!” Why Not?
“The best leaders are developed from on the job experience! It’s not always formal classes and courses. It’s being in the trenches every day learning from real life experiences. Lessons, good or bad, become the portfolio in shaping a leader’s direction, decisions, and destiny!” — COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs
More Awesome Quotes for Today’s Message:
“We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.” — John Dewey
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” — Paulo Coelho
“Do’t carry the experience of life as a wound — let it become wisdom. The harder life’s been on you, the sooner you should become wise.” — Sadhguru
“Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.” — Oscar Wilde
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” — James Russell Lowell
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“The meaning runs deep for those men and women who’ve served this country: 'Honor & Respect Always—Warriors for Life’!” COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs
Good Tuesday afternoon Colonel.
Good morning Col Burroughs and all of my brothers and sisters here on VFV. Every experience we have in life helps to prepare us for our future. For me, I delight in the thought of being able to experience the personal life with my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Have a blessed day today and always.
Taken from:https://www.gotquestions.org/wilderness-experience.html
What does it mean to have a wilderness experience?
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A “wilderness experience” is usually thought of as a tough time in which a believer endures discomfort and trials. The pleasant things of life are unable to be enjoyed, or they may be absent altogether, and one feels a lack of encouragement. A “wilderness experience” is often a time…