Personal Development
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Burn the List: Letting Go of Emotional Baggage and Living Free
Let go of emotional baggage, embrace God’s grace, and move forward free. Learn 4 steps to lighten your load and live with purpose and peace. Continue reading
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Finish the Process
Here’s a simple prompt to remind you to stay on task when daily distractions occur that also helps to keep faith in God Continue reading
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The Ice Truck Test: 5 Lessons About Work, Words, and Worth
A childhood summer job unloading ice taught me hard truths about effort, attitude, and impact—lessons I still carry into work and life today. Continue reading
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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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Do It Scared, But Don’t Do It Stupid
When a copperhead threatened my daughters’ safety, I faced my worst fear armed with boots and determination. Courage isn’t fearlessness—it’s acting despite terror. Continue reading
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How Road Trips Can Strengthen Your Marriage | Simple Ways to Reconnect
Busy schedules can pull couples apart, but a simple road trip can bring you back together. Discover how unplugging, great conversations, and a little adventure can strengthen your marriage. 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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Silencing the Screens: Finding God in a Distracted World
Most of us can’t go 8 seconds without checking our phones. Screens are the devil’s best weapon against us. Here’s how to fight back and hear God again. Continue reading
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Where Are the Men? Understanding Male Relationships Today
From Jesus’ abandoned cross to modern marriage statistics, this reflection explores a timeless question in male relationships: why do men scatter when things get hard? Continue reading
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How to Stop Doing Stupid Things – 5 Easy Ways
Learn from your mistakes in fantasy football and life. Discover 5 key lessons on owning decisions, giving advice, avoiding self-pity, and growing through failures. Continue reading
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How to Lose More Weight and Keep It Off with 3 Simple Lifestyle Changes
Discover three simple lifestyle changes to lose weight and keep it off: healthy keto, intermittent fasting, and walking. Forget diets and embrace sustainable habits. Continue reading
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How to Defeat this Crippling Emotion for Consistent Success
Achieve your highest goals with the superpower of consistency but beware of the enemy of your dreams, which is the crippling effects of discouragement. Continue reading
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Five Reasons You Should Practice the Power of Consistency
Discover how the power of consistency transforms your life by building trust, making you elite, inspiring others, and making you sexy and attractive to others Continue reading
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The Art of Attitude: Transforming Challenges into Positive Experiences
Learn how to master your attitude and make the best of bad situations. Discover the power of perspective in transforming challenges into positive experiences. Continue reading
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3 Ways to Unlock Your Miracle: Timeless Truths from Scripture for Success
Discover how Jesus’ miracles teach us to start small, persist, and witness the power of momentum in our own lives. Your miracle awaits! Continue reading
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How to Overcome Fatigue When Pursuing Goals (3 Ways to Keep Fighting)
Discover 3 powerful mindsets to overcome fatigue and achieve your goals. Learn from a personal pushup challenge how to persevere when you feel like quitting. Continue reading
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How to Age with Grace and Spunk: 5 Lessons from a Wise Old Man
Learn how to age in good health with these 5 lessons from a wise old man – stay active, engage with young people, give freely, overcome challenges, and be nice Continue reading
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10 Miles Daily: A Middle-Aged Man’s 10 Day Journey
Discover 5 life-changing lessons from a middle-aged man’s 10-day, 100-mile walking challenge. Learn to push limits, plan goals, and lead yourself to success. Continue reading
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Clearing the Air: 10 Christian Behaviors That Need Freshening
Discover 10 immature Christian behaviors that hinder our witness. Learn how to grow in faith by overcoming these childish ways and reflecting Christ’s character. Continue reading
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Your Hero Isn’t Coming, and You Don’t Need to Be One
You can tap into the superpower of consistency to conquer bad habits, adopt good habits, and achieve your goals and dreams one good decision at a time. Continue reading
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How to Choose Success: Your Life at the Fork in the Road
Train your mind to remember God’s faithfulness when faced with failure, perceive failure differently, and avoid the negative thoughts in your mind. Continue reading
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Are You Sabotaging Your Dreams? 5 Essential Questions to Ask Yourself
Are you self-sabotaging your dreams with fear of failure, comparing yourself to others, perfectionism, negative self-talk and lack of discipline? Continue reading
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Your Superhero Isn’t Coming (But take heart, there’s good news)
Your secret to success is in the goals you set, the hard work you invest, and your perseverance and ultimately the excellent work you produce. You don’t need a hero Continue reading
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5 Ways Goal-Setting Helps to Discover Your Purpose-Driven Life
5 ways to set Godly goals to help discover and live your purpose driven life and to grow, serve others, determine priorities, and provide clarity Continue reading
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5 Simple Lessons from My Super Slow Weight Loss Efforts
Losing weight is not easy, but here 5 essential lessons I learned from losing 28 pounds in six months Continue reading
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The Key to Discovering Your Purpose-Driven Life
Your highest purpose as a Christian is to glorify God. But what is your unique purpose? Why did God create you in this moment of time? Let’s figure it out Continue reading
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Fight a Midlife Crisis: Add Amazing Years with Proactive Care
Be proactive about your health in midlife and reclaim your vitality. Learn how to live healthy and avoid a midlife crisis and enjoy a fruitful, joyful future. Continue reading
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Create a 5-Point Personal Terms of Service Agreement (for the business of your life)
Create a 5-Point Personal Terms of Service Agreement for your life. Learn to set rules and responsibilities to improve your health, productivity, and well-being. Continue reading
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Five Painful Ways Perfectionism is Killing Your Business (and making everyone miserable)
Learn 5 ways perfectionism can cripple your company culture, stifle innovation, and drain your profits and why you should rid yourself of this toxic trait Continue reading
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