How To Start Over
STARTING OVER Have you ever wanted to start your life over? Or Maybe not your entire life, just certain aspects. The sad truth is we can’t. But with Christ, we can start over, and that’s GOOD NEWS. Psalms 145:14...
Read moreIs Your Life On The Back Burner?
Is Your Life On The Back Burner? I use the back burner on my stove almost every day. My morning routine involves making myself breakfast (steel-cut oatmeal) and finishing up any dishes left from the night before. With steel-cut...
Read more7 HABITS THAT REDUCE STRESS
7 HABITS THAT REDUCE STRESS We live in a broken world, and we are broken / incomplete people. So, life will be stressful. Somedays or seasons of life will be more stressful than others. What is stress? Stress on...
Read morePerfectionism Will Ruin Your Relationships
Perfectionism Will Ruin Your Relationships Where’s my screwdriver? That question can be helpful or harmful. For my family and me, it was harmful. My oldest daughter and I just returned home from a two-week mission trip in Africa, and...
Read moreDealing With An Attitude of Entitlement
How do you Deal with an Attitude of Entitlement? Saturday started normal enough until I started feeling angry at other family members because I didn’t get my way. Yeah, that’s me, the 50-year-old life coach dealing with a personal...
Read moreWhat Do We Learn From Failures
What Do We Learn From Failures Think for a moment about a failure from your life (maybe your failure or you were the collateral damage from someone else’s failure). What pain did you experience from the failure, and what...
Read moreLeaders Are Vulnerable
Leaders Are Vulnerable My nerves were racing. I could feel my heart beating in my chest. What’s going on with me? As I was about to lead a process group with some local counselors and coaches. I have led...
Read moreLeaders Take The Next Step
Leaders Take The Next Step Have you ever heard of analysis paralysis (AP)? It’s a character symptom where leaders cannot make decisions quickly. Instead, they think about the decision, analyze all perspectives, and second-guess themselves. As Stephen Covey says,...
Read moreLeaders Guide the Vision
Who Creates the Vision of an Organization? A misconception in leadership is that the leader MUST come up with the vision for the organization. Vision developing or creating might happen from time to time. However, in the best organizations,...
Read moreLeaders Give Freedom
Think of a time in your life, recently or in the past, when you worked for a boss who micro-managed you. How effective were you in your role and accomplishing your responsibilities? How safe was your working relationship with...
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