Guidance     Perspective rules: The relationship of what you think to what you do.  You decide to avoid doing the usual thing in the routine way, and you do it your own unique creative way.  Or, you see that 'you ain't doin' it right' and follow the instructions.  Or you see you are not doing right in the moral sense, and change your ways.  The choice is whether to depart from the usual, the routine, the proper the orthodox. Neither choice is preferable or right all the time.   Instruction...

  Guidance     Re dark-night-of-the-soul times: The way a desperate person looks at his downside determines what if anything he does in that moment about the situation.  Determination, when we are weak, focuses what resources we do have on doing something that just-maybe can turn the situation around.  Determination bypasses the paralysis that despair can bring on.   In bad times, it's a person's focus or attitude, or the way he characterizes (within his own heart) a terrible fix, that eith...