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There’s one word I hate more than any other word. I wish I could remove it from the face of the earth. Blot it out from every book, article, and mind on the plant. It’s a word I’ve eliminated from my own vocabulary. It’s the word that’s been responsible for my deepest fears and darkest […]
MoreThis past weekend I had the opportunity to attend a men’s retreat. Somehow I always had this idea that as I got older, things would just make more sense. That through natural attrition, things would begin to fall into place. Hanging out with a bunch of people nearly 2x as old as myself made me […]
MoreIn order to be noticed, you have to be the best in the world. Let me rephrase that – you have to be the best in your world. That means, if you build websites, you have to figure out how to be the best that: Your customer knows Your customer can afford Your customer wants to […]
MoreHalf the battle in anything worth doing is just showing up. Show up day after day. Month after month. Decide to make a difference at all times. If it’s worth pursuing, keep showing up. Sure, change your strategy. Adjust your course. But if you want it to work, just keep showing up.
MoreIt’s OK to be wrong, but lazy thinking isn’t OK. In politics, in spirituality, in life, and in relationships, it’s easy to not process things intelligently. When we discuss ideas, we want to get to the root of those ideas. We need to understand how and why things work. We need to ask good questions. In […]
MoreIt’s easy to lose the main thing. When you are giving a talk, do you have a main thing you’d like to communicate? Does your business have a main goal? Do you have one big thing you want to accomplish each day? We miss the main thing because it’s hard to focus on the main thing. […]
MoreRecently I was re-reading the story of the Rich Young Ruler in Mark 10. One verse stuck out particularly. “Looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, “One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and […]
More“Most people wouldn’t even be the lead character in a movie about their own lives.” If you let that quote sink in for a minute, it can be a little scary. If a famous Hollywood director came up and asked to make a movie about your life, what would it entail? Are there any battles […]
MoreIn case you haven’t noticed, our culture uses our phones quite a bit. Call it an addiction. Call it whatever you want, but ultimately, I’d argue that the reason we spend so much time on our phones is because our lives are often very uninteresting. When you’re hiking in the mountains, meeting with clients, digging […]
MoreIn many of the churches I’ve attended, there seems to be an utter fear of culture. Specifically, a fear of being in the minority. The fact that culture is often running contrary to our “traditional” beliefs scares some people immensely. But when we read through scripture, it didn’t seem to bother Jesus. In fact, he […]
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