One of the biggest gifts you can give your kids is to be comfortable in your own skin. Most of us parents are good about telling our children how wonderful they are and how much they should be confident in themselves when they go about their … [Read more]
How to Lead Your Family During Uncertainty
I'm certainly no expert in how to lead during uncertainty, but I do listen to and read what experts say and write. Call me a curator. I find the stuff and tell you about it so you don't have to sift through piles of books and podcasts. … [Read more]
How 9/11 Hits Me This Year
I've been meeting with a few guys every Friday morning for the last 14 years or so for Bible study and prayer. These days, we're more like a bunch of old gossips talking about life for the first 30 minutes of what now is a Zoom call Bible Study … [Read more]
How Journaling Everyday Inspires Me to be a Better Person
Everyday for the past three months, I've written out what my personal mission and purpose is. Everyday. I'll keep the specifics of that to myself, but as I've noted before - thanks to Samuel Johnson - it's often more important to be reminded … [Read more]
Personality as a Skill
What if you viewed your personality - or aspects of it - as skill rather than something that you were born with? What if you saw the parts that you feel are 'just who I am' but that you're not pleased with as skills or bad habits you've developed … [Read more]
Don’t Get Lazy on Having a Mission and Vision
Mission and vision are important. Unfortunately, many of us just sort of drift. We fall into certain patterns on accident, don’t question them, and just live. Comfort is a Bad Goal We tend to settle into the goal of comfort. How … [Read more]
