A couple months ago, I found my daily quiet times in a bit of a slump. Looking for a new tool, I took Zondervan up on an opportunity to try their Once-A-Day Bible for Leaders (NIV). It turns out this resource was exactly what I needed. After using it for over 50 days, here are the 4 […]
Category: Life
3 Places To Look For Greater Self-Awareness
Originally written for TonyMorganLive.com Everyone who lacks self-awareness has one thing in common: They don’t know that they need to be more self-aware. In fact, I’ve never heard anyone say, “I really need to work on my self-awareness!” So if people who aren’t self-aware don’t know that they are not self-aware, how can we know […]
Moment Maker by Carlos Whittaker
I recently read Carlos Whittaker’s new book, Moment Maker. Within just a few pages, it was clear that Carlos and I have very different approaches to life. I see my life as a series of dots on a timeline. Carlos seems to see a winding path with an undisclosed destination. I plan each moment of […]
I’m Moving
3 years ago this month, I joined the staff Mount Paran Church. I was a naive 20-something fresh out of Lee University. They were willing to take a chance. I think it worked out well! In a very fast 36 months, here’s what I saw take place at MPC… Dr. David Cooper recognized a need […]
Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014!
Happy New Year! 2013 was full of great moments and I’m excited for some more in 2014. Here’s what went down last year and what’s lookin’ up for this one… 2013 Highlights Asking Emily Koncerak to marry me. (She said, yes.) Hands down, the best moment of the year. Completing my MBA at Kennesaw State […]
What are you afraid of?
Every year, October 31 is dedicated to the celebration of fear; odd considering that our initial reaction to the concept of fear is negative. Why would we celebrate such an unwelcome thing? It’s true that many fears are not worth our celebration. For example… . Fears that stabilize. If we launch that new project, we […]
Managing Time (by creating less of it)
Money management is best learned when the need for money is greatest. The same is true of time. The less time we have, the more efficiently we use it. Walk into any college library and you can tell the difference between the students who have a paper due in a week and those who have […]
Dream.
I love daydreaming of future goals. It keeps them near to the heart despite their distance from the present. Often mistaken for procrastination, dreams provide energy that can be refocused onto current projects. How often do you break from doing to spend time dreaming? A slow Saturday is a great time to rediscover vision.
Think about it…later.
Just about every day we each discover at least one new piece of information that either really frustrates us or really excites us. It could be any of a million things: someone lied, you won free John Mayer tickets, you missed a deadline, the Cubs are going to the World Series (ok, let me dream). […]
Making Christmas Memories: a lesson from Pixar’s “Up”
Tonight, I’m pulling an all-nighter in Germany to ensure that I sleep well tomorrow on the flight back to the U.S. Part of this effort included watching a movie I was long overdue to see: Up. While the entire movie was incredible (of course, it’s a Pixar), one line in particular jumped out at me. […]