How to Avoid Drift into Mediocrity
Kent Julian recently asked the following question on his blog, Live It Forward: “What strategies do you use to avoid the drift into mediocrity?” Read his post “Beware of the Drift into Mediocrity” to gain more context. It is an essential question to answer. In thinking through my answer, it came down to story. What…
Livestrong Includes Livehonest
The Lance Armstrong story is intriguing. Years of denial seem to be unraveling with teammates and testimony about how doping was done during all those cycling years. We all know of Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France wins. We know of his cancer survival, Livestrong initiative, and general good works. We also know of his consistent…
Three Vignettes on Unlife Life Choices
Creating an unlife life is vital. It is a balance of unlearning and learning to live unstuck, empowering us to grow and live a purpose-filled life. To build on this philosophy, this post contains a unique mix of three perspectives on an unlife life. Unbuckle. Have you ever had that feeling of “it just isn’t…
Love My Ideal Day
My ideal day…. I close my eyes, and my answer comes into focus. I think about the perfect run, a perfect writing day, and a perfectly quiet day sitting on the beach. All sound really good, yet my ideal day is one simply filled with love. My ideal day is about love of family, friends,…
In Living and Leading, Do You Amaze or Maze?
You know the expression. You see their brows furrow as their face cringes in utter confusion. You see their eyes brighten as their face opens in complete wonder. You look in the mirror, and you see fatigue and dullness in your eyes. You look in the mirror, and you see enthusiasm and energy deep inside….
Key Leadership Question: Do You Make Yourself Better?
About a year ago, I posed a central life and leadership question: “Do you make people better?” To me, this is an essential question we need to answer by the way we live and lead. The answer must be “yes” to live and lead with full purpose. As I participated in my third Willow Creek…
Unstuck: Dancing in the Puddles of Life and Possibility
I always remember those times after a rain. Our yard was filled with an assortment of mud puddles, and it was time to go out and have some fun. It was without a care in the world in which we began jumping in the puddles. Water was flying everywhere, and it didn’t matter. It was…
Real Life Choices: We Have Gifts and Challenges
It hit me. Our real life struggle. It is a fight between our gifts and our challenges. The winning one dominates us. Which one ends up on top drives the outcome of our life – good or bad. This is a real life choice. We all have gifts. Each of us has gifts. We may…
It’s On Me
When the alarm rings, it’s on me to get up. When work piles up, it’s on me to work through it. When relationships are strained, it’s on me to fix them. When goals are undefined, it’s on me to understand. When errors happen, it’s on me to accept responsibility. When kids get out of control,…
How to Select the Right Life Path Jumps
There are three types of people in this world. Those who do no harm as we navigate our life path. Those who pull us up to a new purpose-filled life path. Those who pull us down to a dreary, frustrated life path. Whether we recognize it at the time, there are people we encounter who…
On Freedom, Farming, and Life
Farming exemplifies the values of freedom. Freedom is our resolve to protect with a healthy sense of responsibility.
Choices Are the Strategy. Decisions Are the Tactics.
Choices are the strategy. Decisions are the tactics. These two statements empower our life purpose and focus our decisions.