Rare Faith Blog

Meet Andrea Mabey, Mindset Mastery Graduate. Andrea's Mindset Mastery journey shows us that sometimes we need to maintain some flexibility when pursuing set goals. Exploring Inconsequential Goals Andrea’s initial Phase 1 experiment involved setting six goals. After she achieved four of them, sh...

By Andrea Mabey There’s real power in optimism. I feel it every time I hear hope in a song—it energizes my whole heart. And I feel the opposite when I hear lyrics soaked in despair—my heart sinks. I invite you to test this out for yourself. Take the original lyrics to the song “The Best is Yet t...

By Andrea Mabey Dr. Gawande’s boundless energy powered his busy urology practice, his Rotary Club service, and his thrice-weekly tennis games. He also poured his heart into a rural college in India, transforming it from a single building into a thriving campus with 2,000 students. For thirty yea...

By Andrea Mabey Healthy thin people and I have a lot in common. I used to be one. Then stress and age happened, and somewhere along the line, a silent little flag went up: “Welcome to Overweight-landia.” As a new resident of Overweight-landia, I started treating my weight like a disease that n...

By Andrea Mabey Have you ever imagined a hot, gooey cinnamon roll—just dripping with icing—and suddenly realized you needed one? My son John says that imagining delicious food is 85% of cooking. And according to the Law of Perpetual Transmutation, that cinnamon roll has to exist in your mind bef...

By Andrea Mabey Joseph, age 17, was visibly upset. He saw his little sister eating cold cereal on a Saturday night and immediately felt threatened. In our home, cold cereal is usually reserved for Sundays, and he enjoys having something different after a week of plain old oatmeal. Since he doesn...