Understanding how to invest your time only happens when you recognize what gifts God has given you. Identifying your strengths helps you identify your purpose. The other day my daughter asked me, “Daddy, are there some people that don’t have any talents?” I quickly answered, “Everyone has talents.” She then responded, “Yeah, but, some people […]
Every person sees the future through one of two lenses. These lenses determine how one approaches their decisions. Here are the two lenses: Scarcity – the belief that there is a short supply Abundance – the belief that there is more than enough Your outlook will determine your opportunities. I have yet to meet someone […]
The average person sleeps about eight hours a night. That’s 56 hours of your 168 hour week. If you do the math that’s 1/3 of your life that will be spent snoozing. Sleeping is a major part of your life, whether you like it or not. If we spend nearly 1/3 of our life sleeping […]
For many years, Bronnie Ware worked in palliative care. Her patients were those who had gone home to die in the comfort of their familiar surroundings. She was able to witness some incredibly special moments while caring for them during the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. She ended up writing an insightful […]
Taking time for yourself is essential if you want to be successful. Sometimes, you have to get selfish if you are going to achieve a healthy balance of work and recovery. Always giving without receiving eventually leads to burnout. Most people’s life ratios today look like 9:1 output, leaving a 1:9 input. You can only […]
Your excuses will always sound good to you. Do you know why? Because the enemy knows exactly how to entice you to think you don’t have enough. You’ll actually hear a voice say, “I don’t have this…” and it will actually make sense to you. You’ll think, “Yeah, I don’t. I don’t have the money, […]
If you want to go to the next level in your life it is going to require sacrifice. In fact, you have to give up to grow up. The only reason you are not where you want to be yet is because there is something holding you back. And until you give that thing up […]
You have value and abilities far beyond what you’ll ever credit yourself with. Never believe the lie that you have nothing to offer. Our strengths and skills are not a needle in a haystack, rather they are natural, common abilities to us. Since most people do not recognize their strengths because they are so natural to […]
Questions are a great thing. Author Tony Robbins said, “The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself.” We need to be like the little girl who kept asking question after question to her mother. Finally, the mother cried out, “For heaven’s sake, stop asking so […]
To live a life of intentionality, you must have an extreme bias toward action—the drive to make your life count. The good thing is that, in my opinion, everyone possesses this desire; it’s just a matter of extracting and activating it. The goal of life is not to arrive at death safely, but sparingly. By […]