Earlier this week Brad Ruggles posted this funny video, How to Report the News, to his blog. In it, Charlie Brooker describes and takes shots at the formula a lot of TV news stories follow. Have a look.
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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… 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.: Share This weekend I read Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear, the latest book by Max Lucado. We certainly live in an era of fear. Every day the news is filled with stories about the risks of the global economic crisis, global warming, terrorism, and swine flu. Then in between the news stories, advertisers attempt to [...] I spent last week with my extended family in Helen, GA – my two brothers, their families, and my parents. Whenever you take a trip of this magnitude you’re bound to forget something, and we forgot the worst of all possible things. The one thing that absent would make our entire trip miserable… Share I was reading an email that arrived in my inbox this morning and this paragraph stood out to me. “My experience tells me that uptight people can never really experience joy. People who have everything screwed down real tight can never learn to dance. People who are not at peace with themselves, people who carry around [...] Share Today I was pleased to learn that my church has taken up the Porn Challenge idea I wrote about a couple of days ago. To summarize, the challenge is for EVERYONE to install x3watch accountability software that monitors the websites you visit and emails a report to an accountability partner. With everyone doing this – [...] Let’s join together – those who have struggled with pornography and those who haven’t – to break the cycle, hold each other accountable, and take a stand against future temptation. Share Interesting conversation going on at Monday Morning Insight and Slow Leadership about why we keep making the same mistakes over and over again. “Given the number of mistakes most of us make, you would think we would quickly learn how to do better. Mistakes involve pain, embarrassment and loss—things no one likes to experience—yet many are [...] |
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