It's great to be ambitious and hard working. What's not as great is when we get caught in the cycle of 12-hour days. We often justify the work by saying to ourselves, "I have to do this just to keep afloat."
We eventually make it a habit of working harder...
Many times have I heard the question: "Why do bad things happen to good people?" And yet we have Proverbs 13:21, pointing us in a different direction -- "Misfortune pursues the sinner, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous." That sounds better, doesn't it? Especially the part about...
No one wants to be foolish…even less so a fool. How can we, as devoted followers of Christ, know if we are being a rich fool in our professional aspirations? The answer is found in God word, in general, and some really unexpected places, specifically. I'll give...
If you listen to many of the modern sociologists, you'll hear them say work-life balance is a thing of the past. Well, in this Christian professionals group coaching session we will explore whether or not this is true or a myth. You will surely be surprised at what we...
This is not a coaching session on multi-tasking. REPEAT: This is not about multi-tasking. Multi-tasking is impossible and worst and horribly inefficient at best. This is about training your brain to use the same time period to accomplish two tasks with no extra effort. When we start looking for how...
Getting ahead in this competitive marketplace means knowing when we aren't adding value. To make the biggest impact, it's important to recognize when we're just waiting tables. For Christians who believe in servant leadership, this goes against our training. After all, aren't we supposed to be willing to do even...
It's really easy to think of catastrophic blunders that bring an immediate end to a job. I imagine punching a boss or embezzling money or drug use at work. That's not what this top-10 list covers. In this video we review those subtle things we do, mostly without even realizing...
In Deuteronomy 29:29 it says "the secret things belong to the Lord." There is a profound wisdom in acknowledging how little we actually know. As a famous theologian named Thomas Watson once said, "The greatest part of our knowledge is not as much as the least part of our...
There is one chapter in the Bible so densely packed with leadership insight, it's hard to imagine how the author of Samuel 1 came about the content. The chapter is 1 Samuel 30 and it chronicles a short stretch of time in David's life, before he became king. It's...
We all experience negative emotion in the workplace. I think it fair to say we all realize negative emotions don't serve our career very well. In this group executive coaching session I explore a new way to consider the possible causes of the negative emotion and some really fantastic...