It is early February and time for a furry rodent to stick his head out of the ground and tell us how much longer winter will last. It is also “Candlemas Day” and the two are related. Yes, Groundhog Day has its roots in the Bible. The Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:22-40) describes the […]
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For many years I heard how wrong it is that the Christmas Season has become this huge marketing and business event where we have Santa’s everywhere, store wide sales and endless commercials (side note – who has ever gotten a new car wrapped in a bow on Christmas morning?). People get caught up in “out
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I recently had to attend an important meeting where I had not left myself enough time (margin) to deal with some traffic issues. Therefore, I was stressing out while sitting in traffic knowing others were sitting around waiting on me. I also find myself in an airport about 5 times a month for work. I
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This blog post is a sequel to the most recent one where I discussed ‘Being versus Doing”. Not too long ago, a big self-help activity was defining your mission statement. Corporations posted mission statements in their annual reports and on their walls for customers, shareholders and employees to read. Companies can invest years working
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We are in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shootings, still dealing with the pain and working to understand the ‘why’. We have been here before, too many times, with a church in Charleston, the Boston Marathon, in Oklahoma City, an Orlando night club, Sandy Hook Elementary, Virginia Tech, Columbine High School just to name
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This past weekend I attended the 35th reunion of my senior year’s college football team, then drove across the state to play golf with my brothers on the 20th anniversary of our Dad’s passing at the too early age of 57. Two events the same weekend driven by the same force, yet from two opposite
When we look at what’s wrong first, we start from a negative perspective, a negative mindset of what went awry, what expectations we didn’t meet, who caused this failure. The first act is often to determine blame. Focusing on the negative is the path of least resistance. What if, instead, we build on what is
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I started this blog after hearing a talk by Dr. Barry Corey, President of Biola University, a private Evangelical Christian university located in La Mirada, CA. He has a book titled Love Kindness: Discover the Power of a Forgotten Christian Virtue. Kindness is not niceness. The word nice/niceness is not in the bible, but kind/kindness
Today’s world is full of labels with the intent to clash one side against another. Everyone needs to be pigeonholed into a box so we can create sides, generate controversy and friction. This simplifies things, especially for the media who use it to drive ratings. Their argument is that it creates a common reference point
When we first taught tackling to high school football players we started off using the phrase “break down” as the expression for the player to get into a tackling position. Coaches of all ages and across the country use that expression. However, we came to realize that command made the player come to a
