In 2005, when I was in my late thirties, I had a heart attack. In the month or so leading up to the heart attack, I was starting to exhibit the classic symptoms – pain radiating down the shoulders, achiness in my jaw and between my shoulder blades. But I didn’t know what they were. […]
So often we just get caught up in the activity that we don’t look up to see the results we are producing. When we’re not careful in checking the results, we can find ourselves really busy but not producing the results we want. The activity does not equal the results. This can be true as […]
When all the hubbub of life fades to the background where do our thoughts go? Maybe for us, this is when we’re driving. Or maybe, it’s what we’re thinking about when we first wake up or go do sleep. Where is our attention focused? Where our thoughts go in these in-between spaces tells a lot […]
Sometimes it’s difficult to discover our calling. We look at our current life and we can’t fathom it being any different than it is. So, we look around. We try a few purpose statements on, but nothing seems to fit. Won’t Let Go One way to discover our calling is to look for a theme […]
Not living our calling is probably pretty normal for a lot of us, so it might be hard to compare this to what life looks like when we’ve found our calling. Let me highlight some of my experience of life before discovering and living my calling. Unsatisfying Life before I discovered my calling was unsatisfying. […]
A lot of times we think that money is too complicated or that we’re just regular folk, so we need to leave our finances to the experts. In other words, when we ask, “Who’s the expert of our money?” we think that it’s someone else. So, we’ll take financial advice from the car salesman, the […]
I have a problem. My problem is this. I say I value pursuing my calling. I say I value being generous with our time and our money. But if you looked in my bank statements, you might prioritize my values differently than what you get by reading this blog or by talking to me. I […]
If we are working to pursue our calling, we might discover that this is pretty difficult when we’re continually strapped for cash and our money is chaotic. So, we might decide that we need to get this beast (our finances) under control. Tracking If we ask the typical CPA what we should do to get […]
I often get suck on “how.” I want to move even closer to living my dream, but I don’t know how. So I get stuck and stay put. This is where a lot of us get stuck. We don’t know how to get there, so we wait for the plan to appear. I’ve discovered that […]
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A theme has been emerging in my life lately. I’m getting a consistent message from multiple different sources. People want more of the real me and less of that other guy that I want them to see. Intellectually, I understand. I know it’s just a choice. Yet, I’m still struggling with this. That other guy […]
