Not the next Lebron… In high school, I was just a good enough basketball player to be on the team through high school and play in most games my senior year. Though I didn’t play a lot of varsity minutes, I did learn a lot about basketball through endless hours of practice. One of the […]
Jesus’ Feet.
According to StrengthFinders 2.0 (a book and test I highly recommend), among other things, I am an achiever. I need to accomplish a task in order to feel I’ve achieved something. I don’t do well with meetings – how many times is something truly accomplished in a meeting? It’s a strength. It helps me get […]
Don’t Believe the Hype!
I’m sure your all fans of late 80’s and early 90’s rap music, so you recognize the title line as a song by Public Enemy (if you don’t remember the group, you probably remember this guy – Flava Flav). The point of the song was a lot was said about Public Enemy. However, much of […]
It doesn’t have to make sense to be right.
Ol Righttt? In November of 1972 Adriano Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori released a song called Prisencolinensinainciusol. It’s was a song released in Italy for an Italian market, but it was meant to sound American. It wasn’t just the music that sounded American, but the words sound English to the Italian listener too. To an American, […]
Making History.
Catalyst Dallas 2013 Last week, I shared a post of my thoughts from Catalyst Dallas. In particular, I highlighted a session by Brenee Brown – a researcher and TED alumni with over 9 million views of her presentation. Today, I want to share another presentation at Catalyst. Craig Groschele is the pastor of Life Church […]
Are you in the middle of the GRIND?
Growing your business, art & life is a GRIND! As small business owners and entrepreneurs, we spend so much of our time keeping up. We focus on the next task. We attempt to keep our heads above water. And this is just our business life! Throw in improving our craft – photography, art, writing. Pile on top of […]
Greatness (or how to handle a new life).
Dealing with a new life. I’ve found myself struggling with the strangest things since recently taking a position at my home church. An example The church is 30 miles from our home. Kia and I both drive gas-hogging SUVs. For our own sake, we needed to purchase a more economical car. I went back and […]
There is no such thing as work/life balance.
Is work/life balance possible? Alain de Botton is an author. He wrote the book Religion for Atheists. I’ve never read it, but the premise sounds interesting. Honestly, I had never heard of de Botton until recently. I have Twitter to thank for the introduction. Someone retweeted a Tara Gentile retweet of de Botton. Follow that? If […]
You are more productive than you think.
The 7 Year Itch. Last night, I couldn’t sleep. I began a long conversation with myself when this happens, and for some odd reason I listed all the major life milestones passed in one 7 year stretch. I started with the year I turned 18: Graduated from high school (1992 at age 18) Kia and […]
4 steps to escape the Trough of Sorrow
The Trough of Sorrrow While on vacation in June, I ran across this post on the 8Bit blog (8Bit is the creator of The Collective’s WordPress template – Standard Theme). John Saddington shared the below graphic/timeline of a start-up business. It specifically refers to a tech start-up (which will be sold or go public). The […]
