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Welcome to my corner of the internet. Thoughts, journals, and whatever else comes to mind.Big Days, Small Days
There are days so big that you wake up with butterflies in your stomach. And then there are days when you really don't even see the point of waking up at all. The heart of the matter, though, is that every "today" is part of "tomorrow." If I treat the days that seem...
Windfarm Cafe
I have a hard time to getting the Windfarm Cafe to pull up on my computer with all the ads and tracking cookies that justin.tv implements. So this a quick post to embed it in a simple blog post. We'll see if it works. Watch live video from WindFarm Cafe...
Rockefeller Habits: Mastering the Use of Core Values
"A strong culture driven by a handful of rules (core values) makes leading people much easier, reduces the need for stacks of policies and procedures, gives everyone a foundation from which to make tough decisions, and generally brings simplicity and clarity to many...
Rockefeller Habits: Mastering a One Page Strategic Plan
Well for starters... www.gazelles.com is a great source of downloadable forms to walk you through what can seem like an elephant sized project... and remember - How do you eat an elephant? One. Bite. At. A. Time. "A Vision is a Dream with a Plan." "Nothing ever gets...
I'm Going to Pick A Fight: A new take on Remind Me Who I Am
I've written before about how much i liked Jason Gray's song, Remind Me Who I Am. It has been a great encouragement to me, and one of those affirming voices in the back of my head that helps me see God saying, "I'm proud of you, son," or simply, "I love you." However,...
The Rockefeller Habits: Doing the Right Things Right
I'm currently reading The Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish. I need a place to write down some things to come back to and my blog seems like a decent spot to do so. This book is certainly geared towards business leadeship, but as I read it I see applications for all...
Chasing Peace
Peace is one of those things that if you're not used to it, it can drive you crazy when it's actually present. We ask and pray for peace, and when it arrives, we freak out because we don't really want it. We want control. We want to know what's next. We want answers....
Interweaving personal and business blogs
Small Biz Owners, I'm curious... if you use blogging to market your business but also love to blog / journal on the web, do you create two separate blogs, or somehow interweave them? Last night I spent some good time in front of the TV working on some marketing...
Flipping the Org Chart
I sat down with a friend that I have issues with yesterday afternoon. Yeah, issues. Got anyone like that in your life? Someone you love and care for deep down inside, but can't seem to get along with because of personality differences, orientations of the heart,...
2012 Dream List
I've got a list of life-long dreams around here somewhere, and it's about time I get it out and look it over again, but today I spent some time thinking through some of the things I really want to accomplish this year. The list below is preliminary and probably needs...
Scope Creep in Exodus 18
Today on the Daily Audio Bible we read Exodus 18. There are many stories I enjoy revisiting in our yearly revolution through the word, but this one has become both special and a continual challenge to me. Here's the story that always connects with me: 12 Then...
Discomfort
"Western culture has things a little backwards right now. We think that if we had every comfort available to us, we’d be happy. We equate comfort with happiness. And now we’re so comfortable we’re miserable. There’s no struggle in our lives. No...
"God, I just want what you want." Reeeeeally?
"Your will be done, on earth, as it is in Heaven." How often have we heard that line of the Lord's Prayer and said, "Yes, God! YOUR will be done. Not mine." And yet 10 minutes later we're griping because we're stuck in traffic because some old lady 10 cars up had the...
Beautiful Outlaw by John Eldredge – Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus
Last week I was able to get an advance copy of John Eldredge's new book, Beautiful Outlaw. They'd of course love for me to write a review as the book comes out this week, and I am doing so... even though I haven't finished the book yet. I actually had this whole thing...
What I learned at my first REMC Conference
I went to my first conference with a group of REMC / Electric Co-Op's from around the country last week. We were a "vendor" at the meeting so had the chance to set up a little table, meet some other vendors serving this industry, and talk to a wide variety of people...
My Ecclesiastes – Motivation
The past year has been quite a journey for me, and I expect that the trip is nowhere near over. As I read the book of Ecclesiastes recently, I was reminded again about how even the wisest man who ever lived had to walk a path full of "wrong turns" in order to get to...
Perhaps you were born for a time such as this.
Have you ever had one of those days when the puzzle pieces just fell together? We had one of those today in our household. It's not one of those great days of revelation, but rather some slow and steady things that have been simmering for some time but just hit 212...
What I've Done
Linkin Park is one of my favorite musical groups to listen to while I run, work out, or just drive and need some noise. As I was listening to them while on a run yesterday, though, I remembered another reason I like them... They ask some hard questions, they deal with...
