Everyone has a story to tell. Life provides many valuable learning opportunities that we can, in turn, use to benefit other people. People love stories. They want to hear them and they need to tell them. When we share our story, people connect with us on a more personal level. They can relate to us […]
This week we’ve been talking about how your calling flows from who we are. It flows from our strengths. It also flows from our passions. To be passionate about something just means that we care deeply about it. When we connect our greatest strengths with our deepest passions, an amazing alignment happens in our life. […]
Last time I explained that our calling is unique to use, and it flows from who we are. Today I am going explore this a little more. Our calling flows from our strengths. God doesn’t gives natural talents and abilities and then expect us to not use them. Instead, God has wired us up a […]
This week I am going over how to discover our calling. Our calling is unique to each of us. It flows from who we are. Too often we look for our calling to be provided by some external source. We think that our calling is somewhere out there. If only we could find it. However, […]
Do you hate your job? Life is too short to spend so much time doing something you hate doing. So if you hate your job, find something else to do instead. Following are a few steps to get you started. 1. Believe it’s possible to find work you like or even love. 2. Get clear […]
Who knew that prepping a book for self-publishing was so complicated? Writing the content is just the beginning. There are a lot of advantages to self-publishing. We have the final say on everything from the content to the artwork and we didn’t need to convince a publishing company that the book is worthwhile. Most people […]
Some people have led memorable lives. On this Memorial Day holiday, let’s pause to remember the men and women who made a difference by serving in the military. Then, let’s consider an important question posed by the great philosopher, Lynyrd Skynyrd: “If I leave here tomorrow, Would you still remember me?” Are you on track […]
To often we are defined by what we’re against rather than what we’re for. We have mothers against drunk driving (MADD). We are anti-hunger, anti-smoking, anti-bullying, and so forth. But these things only get us out of negative territory. They just get us to zero. Because of all this energy to avoid what we don’t […]
Back in 2005, around the time when I had my heart attack, I learned that there are different kinds of death, and there are different kinds of living. This time I want to talk about a matter of life and death. I’ve learned that we often think of things in terms of “either this or […]
We have certain views and ideas about business, charity and our calling. We seem to accept certain beliefs about these two types of organizations, especially when it comes to our calling. Business These days business receives of a lot of scorn. We deride business as being greedy and selfish. We call business owners, “fat cats,” […]
