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What a Chicken Wing and a Cleaver Taught Me About Leading People
A cleaver and chicken wings sparked a powerful leadership lesson. Discover why great leaders don’t treat everyone the same—and what it really takes to bring out the best in your team. Continue reading
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5 Essential Leadership Lessons from My Little League Baseball Days
Discover five powerful leadership traits inspired by a surprising Little League underdog story. Learn how enthusiasm, involvement, and encouragement can turn any team into a winner. Continue reading
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Why You Can’t Trust Online Restaurant Reviews (The Story of a Bad Anniversary Dinner)
Think online restaurant reviews can be trusted? Think again. A 4.6-star Italian restaurant led to fluorescent lights, flavorless food, and a filet mignon I’d stake my honor wasn’t a filet. A cautionary tale about selection bias, bad decisions, and the… Continue reading
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Stop Drifting Through Life with No Purpose
Stop drifting through life with no purpose and ask yourself, “What do I want?” and commit to a plan to go after it. Continue reading
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The Day I Became a Professional Writer
Self-improvement begins with self-discovery followed by self-discipline, but all are necessary to kindle the flicker of your dreams into a fire Continue reading
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12 Steps to Discovering Your Purpose-Driven Life
Discovering your purpose-driven life takes goals, a plan, objectives, consistency, sacrifice, time management, personal boundaries, measuring, accountability Continue reading
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12 Lessons from Watching Lonesome Dove 20 Times
The 1989 western miniseries Lonesome Dove is an enduring classic that teaches valuable lessons about choices, determination, love, happiness, and friendship Continue reading
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Don’t Let Your Life Deteriorate Like An Old Southern Town
You can improve your life, health, and career with a dream, consistent effort, and focus rather than letting it fall apart and deteriorate as you age Continue reading
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I Wonder if Tom Brady’s Mother Watched the Netflix Roast?
Read why every Tom Brady fan should be disappointed in him after watching the Neflix roast. Continue reading
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Can-do v. Will-do
Discover the power of will-do mentality! Explore can-do vs. will-do traits and unleash your potential. Success awaits those who take action. Continue reading
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The Half-Point Hustle: My Journey from a Near Dropout to Honors Student
Discover the transformative journey of a college student, from near dropout to academic triumph. Learn valuable lessons on resilience and growth. Continue reading
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Wrecking Balls and New Beginnings: Let’s Start Over
From grand hotel to parking lot, the Joffre Hotel proves nothing lasts forever. But impermanence opens doors to positive change. It’s time to rebuild Continue reading
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Stop Apologizing for Your Work & Art (3 Clarifying Reasons Why)
Stop apologizing for your work and art because it leads to three outcomes you must avoid to succeed in life, work and art. Continue reading
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The Story of My Neighbor Killing His Beautiful Lawn
How we invest our time is important and we need to spend it on important things like building good relationships and teaching our kids valuable lessons Continue reading
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The Story of the Boy Who Wanted to Scramble the Eggs
A young boy faces an emotion for the very first time but certainly not the last Continue reading
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One Meal a Day Clarifies Your Relationship with Food
Explore the benefits of OMAD (One Meal a Day) fasting. Gain control over cravings, clarify your relationship with food, and improve overall health. Continue reading
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My Great But Unintentional Vanishing Act
One man’s humorous struggles to renew his driver’s license and reestablish his existence after losing all forms of government identification. Continue reading
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We Went Crazy Over Y2K
Explore the Y2K hysteria and the marketing frenzy it sparked. Discover how to navigate chaos with wisdom and faith. Overcome the world, don’t let it overcome you. Continue reading
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Shoes Around the Table
Discover how family habits shape your home and sanity! From backpacks on couches to shoes as table decor, learn to embrace the chaos. Read more! Continue reading
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Avoid Bill Johnson-Influenced Pastors and The Passion Translation
Update June 1, 2023: Midlife can be your best life! Read my new book to discover how you can grow stronger down the stretch. It’s available on Amazon and Gumroad. I want to share our experience from last year when we searched for… Continue reading
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Six Ways to Let Little Things Go
Letting little things bother us is a sure-fire recipe for sad, lonely lives. Let’s get a handle on them before they get a stranglehold on us Continue reading
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Social Justice Is Coming
There’s a harsh and terrible judgment coming to this nation. Jesus said in Luke 10:13-15, 13 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon,… Continue reading
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Check Your Hypocrisy At the Door
Depending on who you believe, the US has experienced between 12,000 and 193,000 COVID-19 deaths since about March 1. The higher number seems to be the official number, while the lower one is the estimate of deaths attributed solely to… Continue reading
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Sacred Cows, the NFL and Kneeling
I’m just spitballing here. No definitive thoughts. Thinking out loud. The kneeling issue at NFL games has divided players, fans and teams and frustrated everyone who pays attention. To kneel or not to kneel? Seems to be the hot button… Continue reading
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To My Non-Christian Friends
In my heart of hearts I truly believe that Jesus is returning for His Church soon and it burdens me that you will be left behind in the resulting world. You’ll still have a chance to repent and accept Christ… Continue reading
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Christians, You Really Don’t Need A Sign
I was reading in Luke 1 this morning about Zechariah entering the temple of God and meeting the angel Gabriel. Zechariah and his wife, Elizabeth were old and had no children because she was barren. Yet Gabriel told Zechariah that… Continue reading
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The USA Is On A Slippery Slope
“…to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually…” George Mason, 1788. That statement pinpoints precisely the… Continue reading
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How I Chose My Political Party
Charles Spurgeon said, “To live for a political party is unworthy of a man who professes to be a Christian.” I agree with Spurgeon. Christ is first. And foremost. For most of my life, I’ve not considered myself a political… Continue reading
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Taking Philippians 4:13 Out of Context
I was never destined to be a Major League Baseball pitcher. No matter how many tennis balls I threw at the crawl space door as a boy. Regardless of my hopes and dreams and imaginary games I played in my… Continue reading
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What Is The True Cost of a Thing?
You won’t see it on the price tag. The true cost of something is your freedom – how much time and freedom you must surrender to work in order to pay for the thing. For example, I buy a thing… Continue reading
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