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November 2018

November 23, 2018

How To Reclaim Control Of Your Life

Every day we wake up and log in to a game. The game is called control....

November 21, 2018

The Transformational Power of Gratitude

We live in a somber world. There is no escaping the reality of challenge and...

November 19, 2018

What To Do After You Experience Failure

We try so hard. Our best foot is often placed forward. But our intentions derail....

November 16, 2018

5 Factors That Inhibit Growth

In our world so full of progression and performance, each of us wants to grow....

November 14, 2018

A Perspective Shift to Redefine Relationship

My wife and I were watching a soccer game recently. The home-team players were great....

November 12, 2018

How Solitude and Silence Prepares You for Relationship

I was traveling recently and had to leave my bags in an international train station...

November 09, 2018

Why People Watching is Vital to Human Development

It’s a practice New Yorkers know well. People watching. It’s easier to name in big...

November 07, 2018

Do You Really Value Your Values?

As we strive to determine our values, it is important for us to learn how...

November 05, 2018

The Copernican Revolution Your Relationships Need

The relationships we are in often carry some assumptions. We have our own way of...

November 02, 2018

Can a Change of Scenery Solve My Problems?

We’re in Paris this week and it is wonderful. Life has been busy and challenging....

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Why Unity is Not Conformity

My wife and I have decided on UNITY as the vision for our marriage. It is...

October 29, 2018

The Proper Response When I Don’t Get My Way

It happens every day in a thousand different ways. My spouse doesn’t give me the...

October 26, 2018

What It Takes To Create

Just as making an omelet requires breaking some eggs, to create something requires failure. We...

October 24, 2018

Why Influence Is More Powerful Than Position

There are a lot of different ways to do leadership. The arena is vast and...

October 22, 2018

How Our Perspective on Community Has Gone Off The Rails (and How to Fix It)

The world is a diverse and complicated place full of diverse and complicated people. We...

October 19, 2018

4 Tips to Effective Goal Setting

It’s hard to know what to do. Even when we figure it out, it is...

October 17, 2018

The Lost Potential of the Mission Statement

I’m sitting in a Brooklyn coffee shop today. It is a typical place. Trendy; busy....

October 15, 2018

The Benefits of Silence (And why You’re Dying Without It)

Our world is full of noise. We hear the literal voices of people around us....

October 12, 2018

Nothing Can “Make” You Angry

“He’s making me so angry!” “She made me mad yesterday.” We’ve all used this kind...

October 10, 2018

Humility And Pride: What We Get Wrong and How To Do It Right

From early childhood, we start receiving mixed messages about both humility and pride. We are...

October 08, 2018

Why Are We Afraid?

It hits us everyday. Fear. The act of being afraid is a universally human experience....

October 05, 2018

How to Change Culture

When we think about culture, we often think about some alien force that has inhabited...

October 03, 2018

Everyone is a Leader

When we think about the word leader, we often think about it as a prize....

October 01, 2018

How To Learn From Your Mistakes

It happens everyday. We mess up. We make mistakes. Imperfect people make imperfect choices. We...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

3 Reasons You Aren’t Changing Your Behavior (Even When You Want To)

It seems like it shouldn’t be so hard. I don’t like what I’m doing. But...

September 26, 2018

Why Your Choices Matter

Every day, we face a myriad of choices. They flash and jump and shout in...

September 24, 2018

How to Win Marital Arguments

It happens in every marriage. Two people who live together can’t help but grate on...

September 21, 2018

The Promise of Today

There is something significant about the start of a brand new day. The deck reshuffles....

September 19, 2018

How Forgiveness Sets Relationships Free

You may have heard it said a thousand times. Forgiveness is more about the person...

September 17, 2018

Rejection is a Refining Fire

Deeply seeded in each of us is a fear of rejection. We wear it on...