All of My Thoughts and Articles
Run Hard After Your Purpose
At church the other day, we heard from a guest speaker, Ben Malcolmson, who is an assistant to Pete Carroll, coach of the Seattle Seahawks. Ben had an inspiring story, and the thread throughout the ...
2 Reasons Why You Need More Conflict in Your Life
We often try to avoid conflict in our lives. I’m as guilty of this as anyone. For some reason, conflict makes me uncomfortable. I start to get anxious, and I struggle to keep a level ...
You Become Who You Are Little By Little
You become who you are little by little. Here’s what I mean: In most areas of life, change happens slowly. Our daily actions and behaviors form our habits—our consistent patterns of behavior. Our habits in ...
Why Do Bad Things Happen?
When something bad happens, we might wonder what we did wrong to deserve the difficult circumstance. If faith is important to us, we might bring God into the conversation. If good things happen and our ...
Everything Can Be Fixed
I used to get really anxious when something would go wrong in my life. I lived in “protection-mode.” I always worried about losing something, doing something wrong, or saying the wrong thing. Then I would ...
Focus on the System
I’m a huge fantasy football fan. (If you’re not familiar with fantasy football, you select individual players for your team, and you get points each week based on how well that player did in their ...
The Importance of Cohesion and Clarity for Organizational Health
I’m reading an interesting book called “The Advantage” by Patrick Lencioni. In the book, he talks about the importance of organizational health. We don’t often focus on organizational health, even though most of us know ...
Are You a Prophet or Peacemaker?
This past year, I have been reminded about the many tensions and conflicts in our society. We are a divided nation—racially, religiously, and politically. Social Media Activism I love social media, but sometimes the intensity ...
Practice Every Day
The other day, we had a lot of double-unders in our Crossfit workout. (If you aren’t familiar with the exercise, you are jumping rope, but the rope goes around twice per jump. They are tough.) ...
