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December 2018

December 21, 2018

12 Days To a Meaningful Life

With the holidays in full swing and the end of the year fast approaching, it...

December 19, 2018

How to Minimize the Depth of Our Despair

New Yorkers have a lot of strange habits. We live in a unique city, and...

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 16, 2018

5 Factors That Inhibit Growth

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

October 2018

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 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....

August 2018

August 31, 2018

The Fear of Death

As we journey through the vast terrains of life, a pilot emerges. The thing driving...

August 20, 2018

3 Ways to Get Out of a Funk

It happens to all of us. Life is flying by, swirling around us at a...

August 06, 2018

The Pursuit of Ownership: What Really Belongs to Me?

From the time we are very young, we start wrestling with the idea of ownership....

July 2018

July 27, 2018

Why “More” Will Never Be Enough

John Rockefeller, a billionaire in the early 1900’s, was asked, “how much money is enough?”...

July 25, 2018

The 3 Ways Routine Leads to Purpose

Routine gets a bad wrap in today’s world. We equate the establishment of habit with...

July 23, 2018

The Liberating Process of Setting Boundaries for Myself

Freedom is an important value for all of us. We were not meant to be...

July 18, 2018

Seeing Job in the Mirror

It’s been a challenging week for us. The circumstances seem to be piling up. We...

July 11, 2018

Why Is It So Important For Me To Get A Great Photo?

While watching a World Cup game recently, I was struck by how often the people in the...

June 2018

June 29, 2018

5 Ways the World Cup Is A Microcosm of Humanity

The world’s biggest sporting event is in full swing. The global eyes are on the...

June 27, 2018

Why Would You Want to Bring a Baby Into This World?!

My wife and I have been trying to get pregnant for well over a year,...

June 15, 2018

Harness Expectations Before They Bury You

The development of expectations is natural and inevitable. Our entire lives are a pile of...

June 11, 2018

Why Taking Responsibility is Vital for Leadership

Perhaps the greatest obstacle for leaders is a mental one. We fight so hard for positional...

June 08, 2018

4 Steps to Adult Friendship

It’s no secret that significant community for young adults is a challenge. Everyone is focused...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

Choosing The Day

I woke up a few days ago and thought about the day ahead. I hadn’t...

May 02, 2018

How We Pick Our Friends

We work with an organization that sends teams out into the world. These teams usually...

April 2018

April 18, 2018

The Easy Perspective Shift That Will Transform Your Life

We live in a crowded world. There are things that happen around us every day....

April 02, 2018

How to Find More Time

It has to be the most used excuse for why we cannot do something. I don’t...

February 2018

February 28, 2018

Complacency Is The Silent Killer Destroying Your Relationships

There are lots of things that destroy relationships. Anger. The battle for control. Unmet expectations....

February 07, 2018

Why Human Trust is Essential to Vibrant Living

As one of only three things we can control, whom we trust is vitally important...

February 02, 2018

Everything That Matters is Rent-to-Own

In the beginning, we don’t own anything. We don’t get to decide what to wear...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

3 Factors That Determine Your Perspective

There is nothing on this earth more important than perspective. The way we see things...

January 22, 2018

What Your Free Time Says About You

I am currently coaching a man named Tim, a missionary in Serbia, who learned a...

January 05, 2018

The 5 Steps to Spiritual Nourishment

It is the greatest retort we can launch at our spiritual institutions: I’m not being...