Live Intentionally

Here’s a great story NBC Nightly News aired about a man who went to Haiti and as passionate, hard-working, unskilled, loving, non-expert made a difference.

A lot of people have been talking about going to Haiti to help with the relief effort. The response that I’ve heard from a lot of people sounds a lot this… But, I’d like to share with you a series of tweet from Shaun King, lead pastor of Courageous Church in Atlanta, who has been very involved in coordinating help to the people of Haiti.

Bryan Meyers purchased a “Bag O’ Crap” from Woot. He was in Haiti during the earthquake and one of the items that came in the bag saved his life.

Today, I was planning to drive my wife and 3 kids to North Carolina for the weekend. But the weather didn’t cooperate with us. And now here I am. It’s Friday. I’ve already cleared my schedule for the day…

Friday night I had the opportunity to see the Golden Dragon Acrobats. It was just amazing the things they could do… As great as they were, one of the thing that stood out to me was how many times they screwed up. As I thought about the less-than-perfect performance, I realized there were a lot of life lessons that could be drawn from it.

Michael Hyatt had a fantastic post last week titled How to Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick in which he pointed out the difference between good resolutions and bad resolutions using a nifty little acronym. It’s so good I’m just going to pilfer it for your benefit.

Good resolutions are S.M.A.R.T.: