I’ve had the chance to connect and hang out with some pretty high powered individuals. They’re the movers and shakers in the church world or in industry. I’ve also had the chance to meet up with some up-and-comers who are working on doing big things. Every now and then, I get reached out to by…
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Did you see the Lord of the Rings films that Peter Jackson directed? I love the movies, and I love talking to others about the movies. One of the common conversation pieces that comes up about the films (and books in general) is the problem of the eagles. At one point our hero of the…
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I’ve got a friend who wants to flex his entrepreneurial muscle. He’s a starter at his core. But he doesn’t know what idea to follow. He doesn’t know what his “one thing” is. That’s a problem many entrepreneurial minds have. They have so many great ideas, they don’t know which one to go with. And…
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In ninth grade, I attended a great private school. It was one of those smaller, Christian schools that taught Latin. And it was the type where a teacher could smack you on the back of the head with a ruler if you weren’t doing your schoolwork during the assigned time. All of the faculty and…
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I wouldn’t call myself a paranoid person. But there are times I find myself dwelling on irrational fears. For instance, sometimes when I’m driving my car on a nice day, I put my arm out the window to feel the cool air between my fingers. In that instance, a small fear creeps into my mind.…
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During orientation at college, I learned that knowledge made you a better person. The key to every problem in the world—war, poverty, hate—was a more intellectual population. Unfortunately, after my first set of classes, I learned that education didn’t make you a better person. In fact, most of my professors were horrible people. Under the…
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What do you do if you find that all your friends are losers and life-suckers…if you find your friends are taking you places you don’t want to go and draining all of your life energy so you just want to give up on life. Okay, so maybe all your friends aren’t that bad. But maybe…
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I talked last week quite a bit about the people you naturally attract. It’s a chance for you to influence others for the positive—for individuality, risk, passion for God, etc. But what if you attract the wrong kind of people? The truth is, some of the people I’ve attracted in my life are not necessarily…
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We talked Wednesday about the people you will naturally reach. These are the folks who are naturally attracted to you. And this is also the opportunity you have for influence. Be sure, you have the chance to influence other people. Those people you naturally attract, you have just as much chance to influence them as…
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I’m the type of person who wants everyone to like me. I personally believe for me it’s a bit of a competition. Subconsciously, I want to be everybody’s best friend. God forbid someone doesn’t like me. And God forbid someone likes someone else more than me. I’ve been working to overcome this major flaw in…
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