PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT
What’ve You Got to Lose?
by DiAnne Malone
FIVE SMALL LOSSES THAT GREATLY INCREASE YOUR GAINS
I
like the way the show, “The Biggest
Loser,” takes the idea of being a loser
and turns it on its head. It makes losing a
good thing, when in our current society
“all I do is win,” is the prevailing attitude.
The more I think about losing, the more
I’m beginning to see it as a positive. I mean,
is losing really that bad?
From a spiritual perspective, the bible
tells us we have to lose all in order to gain
all. This idea is contrary to the way society
markets success. Still, spiritually, the more
stuff we pick up, carry, weigh ourselves
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down with things we don’t need, the worse
we become.
It sounds confusing at first, for the
measure of a man’s worth is often deter-
mined by how much his stuff is worth. But
even in that context, is it really? Biblically
speaking, there are a few things that we can
afford to lose, but even for those who are
not believers, it may not be a bad idea to
examine some of these potential losses.
1. Weight. Yes, I need to illuminate that
we could look at this literally and fig-
uratively. A lot of us need to lose some