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Developing Resilience #4
And finally, the 4th installment on building resilience each day. I bet you’re curious of why the delay? To sum up, I got a bit distracted by other responsibilities and challenges. I still have a … Read more
Developing Resilience #3
Previously I wrote about Being Calm and Being Confident as building blocks for resilient leadership. The third block of this resilient foundation is to Be Connected. Let’s take a look at what it means to … Read more
Developing Resilience #2
Be Confident. The first in this four-part series on leadership resilience focused on Being Calm. Being calm doesn’t mean being passive or non emotional. It is based on the reality that God is in control. … Read more
Developing Resilience #1
As I’ve talked to hundreds of leaders in recent years, one of the common words used to describe their emotional state is “exhausted”. Leading has never been easy, because you are fighting the gravitational pull … Read more
“He’s only mostly dead”
As Billy Crystal’s character Miracle Max said in “The Princess Bride”, “there’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead…Mostly dead is slightly alive.” Like the “slightly alive” farm boy Westley, this site has … Read more
More on courage and fear
For the past few months I’ve been reflecting on the statement in 2 Timothy 1:7 – “for God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.” (NASV) God … Read more
Fear and Courage
No one wants to be afraid. Fear can be paralyzing. But it can also help to activate us toward courage and faith, if we identify it and bring it before the Lord. Often in Scripture … Read more
The Power of Imagination
When I was a child I dreamed of being many things, usually connected to what I was watching on TV. During the Olympics I began to dream of being an Olympic diver. Becoming an astronaut … Read more
Try harder and feeling worse?
My buddy Sam and I still laugh 20 years later about a certain college basketball coach who, when interviewed about his team’s play, always seemed to respond along one line: “The boys just need to … Read more
Remembering 9/11
I was in Budapest, Hungary for the last day of a conference for one year “STINTers” with Cru, about to depart for their assignments for places throughout Europe. I had just returned from a last minute shopping … Read more