I have a love/hate relationship with this time of year. The holidays have ended, vacations have ended and an entire year of our lives has ended. Endings are melancholy and twinged with…
Category: Leadership
Be the GOAT.
Wouldn’t it be cool to be considered the very best at something? The Greatest of All Time? Some names are synonymous with greatness. Serena Williams. Michael Phelps. Whitney Houston. Frank Lloyd Wright….
Angry Jesus.
What makes Jesus angry? Maybe an angry Jesus is not something you’re comfortable with or that you’ve even considered. I know a lot of people think that there’s one God in the…
What we think.
We hear phrases like this every day: We read them in text messages and on our news feed. Hear them in meetings. We discuss them at dinner. We saturate our minds with…
Holiday grrrrr…atitude.
Holidays are tough. I mean they are also potentially fabulous and fun and meaningful. But let’s be mega-honest for a minute. There is so much pressure. There’s the added expenses. There’s the…
Just for dads…
Hi Guys: I realize I don’t usually write just for the fellas but I had a couple of things I wanted to share. First of all, thank you. Thank you for being…
My fair share.
A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired in 1965. I watch it at least once every year. I don’t know why I love that thing so much, but maybe because I remember my…
Parent thyself.
I had a milestone birthday this month. The big 5-0. I guess this means I’m officially a grown-up. I don’t know about the rest of you, but throughout my adult life I’ve…
Be a giver.
“Boys take. Men give.” That was a foundational concept that my husband Jeremy passed on to our son Jake from an early age. A certain level of selfishness is to be expected…
Gratitude rules.
There’s a classic scene in Father of the Bride where Steve Martin finally loses it. Tension from planning his daughter’s wedding causes him to eventually snap in the grocery store. A store…