Leadership

Last week, I spent 48 hours saying goodbye to my childhood home in Indiana. This week’s blogs center around that… The house looks the same, relatively speaking. What I mean is, my dad is a handy-man extraordinaire so every square inch of the house I grew up in has been completely remodeled at some point…

So I had one of those rare, once in a lifetime opportunities this week. I got to say goodbye to my childhood home. It was a bit surreal to be honest with you. After 30 years, my parents are selling their home in Indiana and moving permanently to Southwest Florida. 1st, let me say we…

4. In order to get to the Next Level, you have to be willing to STRETCH. Ask my team and they will tell you that I’ve been overusing a term lately. It’s: “We’re in the Stretch…” What that means is that we, as an organization, are being stretched to go to the next level. For…

3. The Distance between NEEDING a Creative Spark & HAVING a Creative Spark can be a million miles sometimes. If you’re creative or are required to create a weekly message that must inspire, challenge, entertain, motivate, provoke and teach several hundred people each week like I am then you probably understand the statement above. For…

2. Advancing takes Twice the Energy of Staying the Same. There are just some things that we have to do as leaders simply to maintain. Put another way, there are some baseline responsibilities we have manage in order to “stay in business” from week to week. It’s like putting gas in your car. If you…

1. It’s a Marathon not a Sprint. Every race has ups and downs, highs and lows, ebbs and flows. Leadership is no different. Leadership is certainly not for the faint of heart. If you want your life to matter and you want to impact other people’s lives, then there is a serious commitment level involved.…

Hey everyone, I’m totally not supposed to be doing this, but I can’t hold it in any longer! We are officially 1 week away from our deadline to have the entire book submitted to our publisher. That means that we are definitely on target for a January 2009 Launch of my 1st Book! I can’t…

5. Start Again. There is a famous saying that says, “If you fall off the horse, get up, brush yourself off, and get on and ride again.” (Okay, I don’t know if it goes exactly like that, but that’s how I remember my dad saying it to me when I was growing up.) Anyway, when…

4. Embrace where you are. One of the overwhelming things that can happen when you set out to read daily through the Bible like so many of us are, is that if or when you get behind you can feel overwhelmed by it all and become tempted to give up. Don’t do it. Instead, embrace…

3. Resist Condemnation. Spending time with Jesus everyday is a priority for every believer. God wants us to be self-feeders. Not to be dependant on someone else to tell us how God wants us to live. He has given us His Word, The Bible, so we can daily center our lives around it and learn…