Worldliness: Where is Your Media & Music Taking You?

Media is everywhere. It’s powerful. It can inform, educate, and inspire. Is the media and music you consume taking you in the right direction? Plus another chance to win a free copy of Worldliness.

Get a Free Copy of Worldliness by C.J. Mahaney

Thanks to Crossway Books, I’m giving away 5 copies of Worldliness over the next two weeks. Worldliness by C.J. Mahaney is a book written to challenge Christians with the words of Jesus in John 2:15 – “Do not love the world or anything in the world.”

The Secret Formula for Success Is…

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.

Are Your New Year’s Resolutions SMART?

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.:

Why We Need to Live Intentionally in 2010 More Than Ever

The world we live in is rapidly changing. We have more choices than ever before. We have more options for how we spend our time, how we spend our money, the media we consume, and the people we interact with. We are also more connected than ever before through Facebook, Twitter, text messaging, and smart phones.

In many ways, these are good developments.

But they can also make it very difficult to live the kind of life we want to live. A life that’s productive. A life full of rich relationships and experiences.

#Cultivate09, #Story09 Participants – What’s Changed?

Cultivate was a tremendous experience. But, let’s get to the bottom line… what’s changed? If you were at Cultivate and/or Story, how is your life going to be different because of the experience? Here’s what’s changed for me.

When You, the Leader, are the Barrier to Your Team Goals

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From time to time every leader has to deal with people on his or her team that are not performing up to expectations.  Someone is dropping the ball and forgetting to do things.  Someone is not getting tasks done on time.  Someone’s work is not up to standard.  It could be a number of things.  [...]

I need a fresh start today. How about you?

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Yesterday sucked!

Some of it was circumstances – lunch went long, an interview went long. And then there was the technical problem I was trying to resolve.

After spending 2 hours implementing a solution, I realized it would only fix half the problem.  I had scheduled 45 minutes for it. It was going to be done by [...]

Things I Learned on Vacation: 1) Breaking Routine is Good… Sometimes

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…

6 Tips to Help You Fail Better and More Often

A person’s success is directly proportional to the number and size of the failures they’re willing to risk. So, figuring how to fail better and more often will help us succeed.