Goals are highly overrated. In today’s culture, we love them. With each New Year, we set endless goals for ourselves because we love stories of people who set goals, overcome odds, and reach them. These stories inspire us to change our lives as well. But much of the reason we love goals is because our […]
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Stop Trying to Balance Your Chaotic Life. Do This Instead.
“Don’t be a do person, be a be person. You are not a human doing, you are a human being.” -Matthew Kelly “How do I balance God and school? How do I balance God and family? How do I balance family and career?” These questions plague us. We seem to be searching hard for a […]
Busyness is Optional. Friendship Isn’t.
There’s a lie I’ve foolishly bought into over the years. It’s the lie that I’m too busy to invest in friendships. Recently, I heard a man invite his friend to have lunch with him. I leaned forward, resting my face in my palm, thinking that one act was incredibly simple but also rare now days. […]
6 Spiritual Questions to Consider About Your Career
Lately, I’ve been feeling a strange tension in my life. I wonder if you feel it too. It’s the tension between my career/external life and my character/internal life. On the outside, my career is flourishing. I’m getting new business, receiving new opportunities, and growing at an incredibly fast rate. On the other side is my […]
Do Your Soul a Favor & Expect Less
I believe our sense of meaning, value, and satisfaction with our daily lives rests on one of two ideas: either we are doing too little or we are doing too much with our days. If I had to guess what the case for you is, I would guess the latter is true. Such is the […]
21 Irrefutable Reasons Why Jesus is the Greatest Leader of All Time
This is a guest post by Paul Sohn. He started a faith that now has more than 2 billion followers and lasted 2,000 years. Jesus Christ epitomized the consummate servant leader. In fact, leadership guru Ken Blanchard said it best: “The more I read the Bible, the more evident it becomes that everything I have […]
What Do We Have Against Starting Something New?
A reality I avoided for a long time was that the only way for me to make a difference was to risk with something new. There are many of us who can’t make any impact by living the way we do now. We might acknowledge this, but are too afraid to admit it. Why? Because […]