Always be hungry to learn – especially to learn practices and habits to be better. Your morning routine gives you the opportunity to dive deeply into books, blogs, articles, and podcasts to be learning every morning. Use the opportunity each morning to learn. Whether it is how to be more efficient at your current job, […]

I read Hal Elrod’s book The Miracle Morning for the first time in 2014. It immediately changed my life trajectory. Along with Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff by the late Richard Carlson (also a recommended read) it is on my list of top 3 most influential, life-changing books. The concept is simple: life is crazy, […]

It’s that time of year again where many folks have already given up on the resolutions they set just four weeks ago. We have high aspirations going into a new year with new health, wealth, and spiritual goals only to be disappointed by the end of January that we didn’t stick to our new workout […]

Be the person that finishes what you start. Are you the type of person that sticks with something until you accomplish what you set out to accomplish, or do you quit when things get tough? Mastery of anything requires hours and hours of deliberate practice. It’s not sexy. It’s work. In her book Grit, author […]

Relationships. We seem to spend so much time worrying about work, money, and what we are doing tomorrow that we can forget to appreciate what is right in front of us: family and close relationships. If you talk to people on their death bed, they don’t say, “man I wish I put in more billable […]

Set time aside at the same time and place everyday to reflect on your mission and be alone with God. Reflect on where He is taking you. Life seems to go a million miles an hour at times. We can be pulled in several directions, many of which are not even aligned with where we […]

Sometimes problems can seem so much more significant in the moment than they actually are. I notice myself falling into this trap when I get stressed out at work. It usually happens when I am faced with a problem I am facing for the first time and don’t know how to solve right away. Or […]

Accomplish more by doing less. If we try to be in four places at once and make promises we cannot keep, we end up with high blood pressure, no energy, high anxiety and stress, we end up accomplishing less and hurting the people we love. It seems to ring especially true in the Christian community. […]

All work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy. This line from The Shining with Jack Nicholson, while creepy in the movie, has a lot of truth to it. There seems to be a misconception that the harder and longer we work, the more successful we will be. The truth is, when we work […]

There is so much we cannot control. As I write this we are in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a scary, uncertain, unprecedented time in the modern era. We don’t know what next week will look like. We are worried about our loved ones, especially those 60 years or older. We don’t […]