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The best thing about having a good relationship with someone is the ability to disagree in a healthy way. The other day I had a really good conversation with someone who completely disagreed with me on a contentious issue. No insults were thrown. No personal attacks were mounted. It was just a really good conversation. […]
MoreAt some point in your life, you realize that if you don’t do things, they won’t get done. If you’re trying to build a company, you’re the one that has to do it. If you want to ask that girl out, you’re the one that has to do it. If you want to start a […]
MoreIf you’ve ever watched, The Social Network you know a little about the backstory to Facebook. Like anything in Hollywood, it is certainly over dramatized. And like most things that do with Entrepreneurship, they focus on the idea of Facebook. It’s almost as if the only thing that really mattered with Facebook was the idea. Once Mark […]
MoreFor a long time, I’ve mused over the idea of calling. What does it mean to have a life calling? In school, they had an entire center devoted to Life Calling (it was a Christian College…..obviously). But at the end of the day, all of this talk of calling led me to more confusion than clarity. They positioned […]
More“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” – 2 Tim 4:7 Recently I had the opportunity to sit down across from a fighter. Not a boxer or MMA fighter, but a fighter in life. This man was a product of hardship through and through. He is […]
MoreThere are literally thousands of lessons from trying to start and run a company. I’ve learned more in the past 5 months than I have at many other points in my entire life. One of the lessons that has been a theme for me over the past year and a half is persistence. I used to […]
MoreThere’s a tendency in our church culture to focus far more on belief than action. Belief is certainly important, but so often we excuse ourselves from action because we “believe” the right things. Or we waste time and energy arguing over what we should and shouldn’t believe. After all, check out this parable: Matthew 7:24-26 […]
MoreOne of my least favorite words in the entire English language is the word deserve. When people use it around me, they use it fundamentally differently than other similar words like earned. To deserve something often seems to imply a moral obligation that you get it. Earning something implies that you did something and are now […]
MoreProverbs 16:9 says a man plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps. For us, this means two things: We should be planning (knowing of course that God is going to change things anyway) We should be moving. (When we say God directs steps, it assumes that we are stepping.) So by all means, plan […]
MoreStumbled across this gif the other day. Perhaps it’s not accurate for you, but it’s sure accurate everyday for me. And it’s OK to say I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’m also going to do everything I can to make it work.
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