How do you feel today? Do you feel strange? Do you feel stressed? Do you feel angry? Do you feel dejected, depressed, denied? Do you feel exasperated? Do you feel tired, exhuasted, run-down? Believe me I know. I’ve been there. I sometimes go to bed tired and wake up tired. I get mad. I get…
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So it’s been crazy rainy here the last several days. And not only does the rain add to the gloom, but the dreariness causes just a general blah to come over me. I’m sure there’s some science around this. Perhaps vitamin deficiencies or maybe something else. But whatever the cause, I just know I feel…
Read More Always ThereIt’s Friday. You wake up, you feel motivated to get through the day cause you know this afternoon you will have reached the weekend. What is it about the weekend that draws us to hurry through the week? Is it the fact you get to drink coffee from a real mug vs. a travel mug?…
Read More WeekendSummer is almost here. And that means heat and humidity here in the south where I live. But that also means bugs. Big bugs, little bugs, bugs everywhere and all the time. Especially on your car. If you travel at night or in the early morning in the summer in the south, you’re almost certain…
Read More Clean the WindshieldPeople talk all the time about living intentional. What does this mean? Who doesn’t want to live with intentions? Who doesn’t want this one life to mean something? I think we all want this. Except some of us just don’t take the time to take a step back and look at what we need to…
Read More IntentionalHow do I perceive leadership? What are attributes I feel a good leader must possess? I remember at the beginning of my career how I thought about leadership. I was disgusted with it. I thought it was a mindset and an attitude of arrogance. In my mind leaders were cocky. It was more a feeling…
Read More LeadershipI just got this new Logitech slim combo keyboard and case for my 12.9” iPad and I really like it so far. In fact, I’m writing this post right now on it. I’m a stickler for items which make tasks effortless. And while I always have to think to come up with words to write,…
Read More So I Write“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford When Dietrich Bonhoeffer was 22, he traveled to Barcelona, Spain, to work with a German church there. He had just received his masters in theology. He worked with kids, taught Sunday school…
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Perhaps what we are going through is just what we need to determine the best for our lives. I know what you’re thinking, “Really? How could anything bad be good?” And sometimes I think, “why is this happening to me?” But maybe things that are undesirable in your life are being rooted out or trimmed…
Read More Kill It to GrowToday is Sunday. We think we must rest at the end of the week. We think Sunday is naturally a day of rest since we’ve worked an entire week and now we need rest. We run and run and run and work to almost the brink of burn out and then we feel we need…
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