I want to share a reflection of crucial coaching conversations I am having right now with Founders, CEO’s, business owners, and senior pastors. Your capacity to create an ecosystem that fosters growth, innovation, and change is dependent upon your emotional ability to stay grounded in the following. In our journey to foster environments where God-given…
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At 36, I hit a crisis. I got a job that seemed to solve my problems and meet my growing needs. I had been in an executive role with a church for about two years, and our fourth daughter had just been born. I had the woman of my dreams and a wonderful family, but…
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I once had a mentor tell me that oftentimes there are not right or wrong decisions when deciding to move to a new town or to take a new job. However, making decisions that align with your best time, talents, and gifts is important because we have limited time on earth to make an eternal…
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I am currently on a journey to focus my energies on reading more biographies because of an insight I had recently about one of my top five strengths on the StrengthsFinder. I am wired for Individualization according to StrengthsFinder, which means I am highly intrigued with the personal qualities of an individual and how to…
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It never ends. Stepping over toys. Stepping on toys. Asking them to clean up toys. How do you teach children (your team) to take care of their toys? This is my current strategy. “You have two choices. You can clean up what I have asked you to clean or you can leave them and lose…
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The intimate breakthrough you want with your wife is on the other side of the emotional glass ceiling. One of the emotional glass ceilings you may be facing is trying to care for and fix your spouse. You are not required to fix the problems of anyone. Including your spouse. The greatest gift you can…
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We all desire transformation, but few rarely experience a deep level of leadership transformation. It’s the primary reason Jesus expressed that it is easy to clean the outside of the cup than to face deep internal changes (Matthew 23:24-26). No matter what you are leading the future belongs to those willing to choose to be…
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The power of your life’s story and your potential leadership is found in the hidden places where you take center stage and pull back the curtain. The willingness to be seen. I asked a client this week, “Tell me, how are you brave?” In the context of our coaching conversation, he began to share a…
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I am writing this from a limited view of what it means to be a husband who desires a thriving marriage. You don’t fix your wife. It really is that simple. She is not a problem to be solved, she is a beauty to be pursued. Here are three things that could be helpful to…
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The second Friday of January is known as quitters Friday. (It really is a thing.) We all need to quit. The modern world has made quitting complex because we are addicted to not being enough and having enough. Therefore, it has become easy… Easy to say yes. Easy to live in shame. Easy to live…
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