Pride & Arrogance

By Dwayne Hicks | October 23, 2014 |

Pride is a “feeling of deep pleasure and satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements or the achievements of someone very close” to me – like one of my kids. Arrogance is “having an exaggerated sense of ones own abilities and importance. These two can be closely related when I’ve accomplished something that I’m proud to…

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Humility

By Dwayne Hicks | August 2, 2014 |

This is a word that if you know you have it, you may have very well lost it. Humility means “a modest or low view of one’s own importance”. I believe that there are times when everyone feels a bit too confident in his or her own ability. I am learning every day more and…

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Boasting & Bragging

By Dwayne Hicks | December 5, 2013 |

I’ve never been a fan of someone who brags a lot. I’ve been around people who thought that they were “all that”.  It doesn’t take long to figure out that most of the time they are pretty prideful and puffed up. It’s hard to work with someone who thinks more highly of himself than he…

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