Enthusiastic, energetic leaders and work environments are contagious. They draw, motivate, and engage people. It’s the type of place we all want to be. The type of leader we all want to follow. The opposite is true as well. A stressed out, impatient and unapproachable [...]
The famous NBA basketball player Michael Jordan once said: "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in [...]
Last week I traveled on a plane across the ocean. By the time the seat belt sign dinged and my plane had reached cruising altitude I was already feeling numbness in my legs. “There just isn’t enough space in this seat, no margin for my [...]
So often when I greet people and ask them how they are doing they respond by saying, “I’m busy.” This reality of busyness has got me thinking… It seems, for some odd reason, that we as humans have begun to see busyness as a badge [...]
What comes to mind when you hear the word meditation? Perhaps you picture an eastern religion, a monk or a quiet seated person with legs crossed. Maybe you visualize tranquility or peacefulness. For a long time I associated meditation with something other than Christianity. After [...]
Do you ever feel like you are a disappointment to God? That you don’t measure up? That your blunders and weaknesses are constantly under the spotlight of His judgment? “God must be so disappointed as He looks at my faults and failures… He must be [...]
I must admit that I don’t like to exercise. While I always feel much better when I am done I rarely ever put on my running shoes with a sense of exhilaration or enthusiasm. In fact, more often than not I find really good excuses [...]
Conflict is inevitable. We see it all around us – at work, at home, on the roadways and even in the church. No relationship is immune and everyone of us will have to deal with it sooner or later. As I have surveyed the landscape [...]
For many people the flip of the Gregorian calendar on January 1 signifies an opportunity to set and establish new goals for the upcoming year. Your goals could include things you want to start doing (exercise), things you want to continue doing (finding a weekly [...]
Work and rest are meant to go together We live in an unbalanced world. Most of us have figured out the “work hard” part, but we struggle to live into the “rest” part. We run from activity to project to meeting to training, and we [...]
