I have to tell you a story. I haven’t run this by my wife for permission, but I’m hoping she won’t read this. We were in Maryland. We’d walked to a shopping center about a mile away, but we weren’t looking forward to walking back. It was a terribly hot day. So we got a…
I love business. It’s fun to make money and attempt a takeover of specific niches. I’m pretty vocal about how much I love it. So people constantly give me news books they think I should read about business structures, success models, and launch formulas. I’ll usually give them a try, but rarely does one get me…
Have you ever had a “theme day”? It’s one of those days where it seems one consistent concept keeps coming up – in each conversation, each message you hear… Sunday was one of those days for me. The theme was performance. My pastor’s message seemed to scream that concept to me. Then I got home in…
I’ll be the first to admit it: I’m a competitive spirit. I love trying to win a good debate. Heck, I’ll even argue a position I don’t believe just for the competition and seeing how I do. Call me the devil’s advocate. I think there’s a place for that sort of competition, but only if…
I have a gardener I call George. I’m pretty sure that’s his name. But not positive. Each week or two he comes by and takes care of my lawn. He weeds my flower bed. He fertilizes. He does all the things a “man” is supposed to do for his own lawn. My point is, if…
We all crazy deep relationships – those people we can tell our most intimate secrets to and know they still have our backs. We want the type of friend who would take a bullet for us. Unfortunately, few people have relationships like that. Often, that’s because we don’t know how to take our friendships beyond…
There’s a scene in CS Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe that I love. The lion Aslan, who represents Jesus, had just risen from the dead. And the children who saw him resurrected were asking how it was possible. Aslan responded: “though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she…
I’m part of a Facebook group filled with ministry and business leaders. A post shocked me the other day. A man wrote: My church is cutting my job due to budget cuts. They asked me to make a list of companies that perform my function before I leave. Any companies I should add to my…
I remember when I was a kid, road trips baffled me. We used to commute back and forth through San Antonio to our home in Kerrville, Texas. I was always confused that my dad took a particular exit: I-10 to El Paso. We’d get on this road to El Paso, and I never understood it. “Dad,…
I got into a great religious discussion the other day over coffee. I was hanging out with a very intellectually honest agnostic. At one point he even said, “I think Jesus really existed. He was probably just a brilliant con man.” I laughed because I had to respect the intellectual honesty of the guy. That’s…