Live Intentionally

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.

Setting goals is important, but what if before setting goals for the new year we start with a blank sheet of paper and… imagine.

Share In the last couple weeks several of my neighbors have put up Obama signs in their yard. It’s given me the urge to put a sign in my yard, but not for Obama or McCain. I have a love-hate relationship with politics. As a “systems guy” who loves to find solutions to large problems, [...]

Share It’s been a few days since the Willow Creek Association Leadership Summit and I’ve had some time to look over my Summit notes, reflect, and pray.  Here are some of my reflections on the Summit and what I plan to do as a result of my Summit experience.

Share You’ve probably been heard many times that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.  What you eat first thing in the morning helps to determine whether you’ll have the strength and energy and focus you need for morning and thus sets the tone for the day. The same is true for your [...]

Share I tend to be a very determined person.  I believe that often the difference between success and failure is the successful person just gets up one more time than he fails.  One of my my mottos is “refuse to lose.”  John Maxwell makes some insightful points about quitting in the latest Leadership Wired newsletter: “You may [...]

Thoughts on busyness, being busy.