Category Archives: Self-Leadership

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5 Easy Ways To Get More Bible In Your Life

Everyone who loves Jesus recognizes they should read the Bible…more than they do. We know it’s the primary way God speaks to us. I mean it is called the “Word.” And what do you use in a conversation? Words.

Most followers of Jesus would also admit to feeling guilty for not reading more than they do. It doesn’t help that Apple just rolled out Screen Time which shows you in brilliant color just how little you use the Bible app compared to other apps on your phone. In full transparency, my results showed I read the news way more than I do the Bible app.

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Waiting Well

Have you ever felt like God has forgotten about you?

Maybe you’ve been praying and asking God to change a situation but nothing has changed…for years. Maybe there is a dream you feel like God has placed in your heart but it is gathering dust.

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Social Media Is Making You Unhappy

What Happens to Your Soul After a Scroll

Has this ever happened to you? You wake up a little later than normal so you’re rushing to get off to work. The morning is filled with back-to-back meetings. You look up and it’s lunch time so you take a moment to grab a cup of coffee and realized you haven’t checked social media today.

While you’re drinking a cup of coffee you scroll through your feed and see what your “friends” have posted. The more you scroll the more you start to feel a general sense of unhappiness.

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Emotional Control

What wrecks your mornings getting your kids off to school? What causes most of the fights between you and your significant other? What always gets in the way between you and your boss? What keeps you from eating right or exercising? What causes your friendships to drift?

What do these seemingly different scenarios have in common?

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Pitching Your Tent in the Land of Hope

Have you ever slept in a tent before? If you haven’t slept in a tent before you owe it to yourself and your kids to try it.

Growing up, most of our vacations centered around camping, and in my youngest memories, tent camping. Eventually our family migrated towards a camper. Vacation camping wasn’t a foreign concept to me…but it was to my wife.

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How to Respond to Closed Doors

Moving from Regretful to Hopeful

Summer is coming to an end. To say such a thing in New York is guaranteed to get more gasps than swearing in public. We spend all year looking forward to summer and now it’s ending.

It’s almost enough to send a person into depression. Summer is absolutely perfect in New York!

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Be the Shark

Getting the Most Out of Your Summer Vacation

Vacation season is here! It’s the time kids and adults wait for all year long! As adults, it’s the time we’ve told ourselves we will finally relax and give our family members our undivided attention.

That puts a lot of pressure on your vacation to be a memory machine. The very thing that’s supposed to help you relax can become another source of stress. How am I going to manufacture fun and memories when I’m already exhausted?