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A dead battery. Nothing can be more frustrating than jumping into your car five minutes late for work with your breakfast bar and hot java in hand, only to hear click, click, click. Then begins the ever-elusive search for a neighbor with jumper cables. Continue Reading…
This post is part of a series on personal productivity. You should also check out The Four Things Everyone Should Have in their Productivity System and Your Inbox is Not Your To Do List.
So in my prior posts I wrote about how every productivity system has both inboxes and to-do lists. A little later I wrote about how your inbox is not your to-do list. Now that we’ve established that these are two separate things, it’s time to talk about how they work together.
Here’s a new leadership lesson from an old story. What can leaders learn from the story of David and Goliath? No, I’m not suggesting a “defeating the giants” pep talk. Instead, let’s consider how the 1 Samuel 17 illustrates a leadership tool as old as history, yet still relevant today – the leadership story. Continue Reading…
I‘ve been married for a little over 14 months now. It’s been an exciting journey and I’ve learned so much along the way. I could tell you all about my lessons on love as a daily choice, grace as a repeated action, emotions of daily living, the power of prayer, or the treasure of experiences over possessions.
But lately, I feel like God has been using my relationship with my husband to shed light on an area of weakness that I’ve never really noticed. Continue Reading…
How familiar is this scenario? You come in to work after lunch one day and sit down to get started with some work. There are a couple things in your head you know you need to do, but hey, you’ve got all afternoon! So you click on your email inbox and start answering email.
Four hours later, it’s time to leave work, but you haven’t finished answering all your email and you can’t remember anything about what you were thinking about doing earlier. What did I need to do again? Wasn’t it important? Continue Reading…
I don’t know about you, but when my teenage daughter starts getting emotional, I start praying for the Second Coming.
One night she was very anxious about a test the next morning. She is a straight A student and worries a lot about her grades. She was making an A+ in this particular class and had been studying very regularly for the test. However, she was in tears that she might fail the test, which in her mind is anything below an A.
We’ve all been there – that sinking feeling when you realize that there was that really important thing that you needed to do and you completely forgot. That gross feeling when you realized that something didn’t make it on your calendar and you’re going to miss it. There’s got to be a better way, right? Continue Reading…
Sometimes I cannot even begin to understand why God continues to love me when I continue to disobey him and put things above him in my life. Time and time again he continues to reassure me that he is still my Father and will not leave me nor forsake me. When I question his love after all he has done for me, he doesn’t give up. He continues to love. He never tells me that I have hit my limit on freak out moments towards him. This concept of God’s never ending love has become even clearer to me in the past two years that our son, Amos, has been in our family. Continue Reading…
Life is tiring. Investing in people can be downright draining. This fall I realized that for almost 20 years I have been investing in people in some form or fashion. I’m excited to announce that it’s time to stop – to rest. Continue Reading…
What are you doing on New Year’s Eve? Chances are, you haven’t thought much about it. If history repeats itself, you are probably doomed to a boring night at your house, filling your stomach with black-eyed peas. You know, it doesn’t have to be that way.
It’s been a while now since I’ve given something away on my blog. I think it’s time to do it again. Continue Reading…
