Tony Schwartz, the founder, and CEO of Energy Project has conducted tremendous research and training with high performing people. He is one of the leading authorities on productivity. Check out what he wrote in a New York Times article: “More and more of us find ourselves unable to juggle overwhelming demands and maintain a seemingly unsustainable […]
Our culture has a fascination with zombies. By my quick calculation, I believe there to be approximately two trillion shows on about the walking dead in the last few years. I read that the first zombie to ever appear on the silver screen was in W.B. Seabrook’s The Magical Island all the way back in 1929 […]
Every season has a reason. By simply experiencing the beauty of each season, we can see the vast array of artwork God chose to use. The spring…He paints the rain and warm breezes as nature begins to come alive on the canvas. The summer…life is in full bloom with the lushness of the trees and […]
Fear is responsible for almost every missed opportunity. It is the archenemy of progress. Most people don’t realize how much fear they really possess…or rather, I should say, how much fear possesses them. The moment we give in to our fears is the moment we cease growing. All true progress takes place just beyond the […]
We have all heard it said, “…and they lived happily ever after…” What a shallow ending! If happily ever after is all we are waiting for, we are missing out on something even better. Don’t get me wrong…happily ever after is good…but it’s not great. There’s an ending…that is actually the beginning…that is far better […]
We all struggle with knowing the difference between the enemy taunting us and God teaching us. The tension between knowing if our situation is a trial we should escape or a testing we should embrace. We certainly don’t want to give the enemy blame for something God is doing, and we don’t want to give […]
Mother Teresa said, “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” If there is a word that should define Christians, it is undoubtedly the word…LOVE. Being a follower of Christ revolves around the central idea of love. Love is what defined Christ, and love is what should define […]
You’ll never live life to the fullest if you can’t laugh. In fact, laughter is as much of a spiritual thing as any other element of faith. Holocaust survivor and founder of Logotherapy Viktor Frankel said, “Humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any […]
Where your focus goes your energy flows. That’s because what we look at is what we go toward. I am notorious for this phenomena while driving. If I look left…I start drifting left, if I look right…I start drifting right. Spiritually, this happens to us as well. This is why the Bible encourages us to […]
Some things just don’t go together. They don’t make sense. I came across these funny terms that really shouldn’t make sense, but we use them anyway: Found Missing Same Difference Threadless Screws Jumbo Shrimp Stand Down Self-Help Group Silent Alarm Microsoft Works Plastic Glasses Tragic Comedy Exact Estimate Here are some phrases that really don’t […]