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Welcome to my corner of the internet. Thoughts, journals, and whatever else comes to mind.Leadership: Grow and Learn
How can I be a godly leader? That's the question of the disucussion I'm leading on our church's high school youth group tomorrow morning. This is the third lesson in a series of four, and I haven't been present for the first two lessons, nor do I have the materials to...
Weariness and Motivation
I'm in one of those seasons of life where tiredness, and even exhaustion, is more than something felt more than at certain points of the day... it's more of a permanent state of mind. A big part of it, I'm sure, is the "role" I've taken on as...
Gaining Control of My Time (Or Losing Control)
GOAL: BUDGET MY TIME EACH DAY AND EACH WEEK GOAL SUMMARY: I want control. Don't we all? I want to look back at the end of a 24 hour period of time and say, "I spent my day in a way that was productive, useful, and enjoyable." But so often, I seem to get to the...
GPS – Leading my Son to Faith in Jesus Christ
GOAL: LEAD MY SON TO FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST GOAL SUMMARY: I was hesitant to even think of making up a Goal Planning Sheet for this. Why? Well, for starters, the whole point is that I want my son's decision about his eternal destination to be just that... his decision....
GPS – Read or write for pleasure for an hour a day
GOAL: SPEND AN HOUR EACH DAY READING AND WRITING FOR PLEASURE GOAL SUMMARY: I dearly love to read and write for pleasure. Yet both seem to somehow lose their place on my priority list when other things "come up." Is this because they're really not that important to...
Dream #61 – Hit A Home Run
Part of my business / life coaching experience is looking inside myself for what I really want to do. As I develop an inventory of 100+ dreams, I am searching inside myself for what motivates me. I believe that a big part of this experience is to explore the unknowns...
How I Feel Right Now
I have a friend, we'll call him Henry, who is on the brink right now. On the brink of what I think he feels is a "trade-in" of one life for another, while in my opinion, is throwing a life worth living for away in exchange for a fantasy. Not just a fantasy that's "too...
A Hope and a Future
Jeremiah 29:11. An often used verse of hope for the future: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." How nice. Plans for a future. Hope in the future. But what about...
PDN Thoughts: Communication and Getting Appointments
Today I wrap up a week of sales training focusing on communications and getting appointments. I have had several meetings this week with existing customers and at least one of them has already turned into a great short-term contract for services. Another also opened...
GPS: Develop a useful way to manage contacts and leads to develop new customers
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The Princess Effect
The Princess Effect... I wonder if there is a definition somewhere that puts into words the effect a woman's heart has on a man, or a daughter's heart has on a father. I'm not writing this to say I'm totally wrapped around my baby's little finger yet (nor am I denying...
Goal Planning Sheet Template
GOAL SUMMARY: A brief description of the goal, why it is being set, and how it fits into my life as a whole goes here. Make sure it's long enough to make it past the bottom fo the image so the table can fit to the entire width. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur...
Communication – I want to stop taking the easy way out
This week I'm learning about communication in my business and sales coaching. Today I read an interesting statistic, that while I knew was "out there," I had not seen in print. Communication is only 7% verbal, 38% tone of voice, and 55% body language. Wow, no wonder I...
Destructive Path – A Lesson for Teens that is Supposed to be about Alcohol
I'm leading our church's high school youth group tomorrow in a discussion that seems to focus on the "destructive path" of alcohol. I'm having a tough time with some of it's arguments, as I feel they are a bit more of a fear tactic than a a logical progression of...
Productivity – Plenty of Room for Improvement!
"The journey IS the destination." Thank GOD that's true. As I venture through my coaching experience, there are areas that both excite me for the "simplicity" of what really needs to be done. There are also areas that could easily overwhelm me if I didn't keep that...
Affirmations – A Discussion with Youth
Tonight I'm once again leading the youth group at our church. Tonight we're going to talk about Affirmations. An affirmation is telling yourself, in times of doubt, that which you know to be true at other times. This takes some forethought, of course, because that...
Making Rain
I am heading to a meeting for a networking group called Rainmakers tomorrow morning. It's been a few years since I've done anything specifically geared toward networking... what I'd often look at as meeting new people I might have a chance of doing business with in a...
Social Development – Goals and Priorities
Below are initial Goals and Priorities for the Social Development Section of my Action Plan. These are developed from my Social Development Self-Evaluation and Where I Am Now thoughts, and are idea-generators for real-life goals I may pursue. I still haven't figured...
