April 29, 2013

How I reached the end of my intelligence

How we view our capacity to grow greatly affects how we engage a challenge, be it a dream we aspire to achieve, or the next project we need to get done. As a third-year physics student in college, I ...

April 26, 2013

When anxiety flattens you

Here’s the 3-step formula for living: Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat. Forget any one of those and you’re pretty well sunk. Experience a job loss or health crisis and you feel pretty well sunk too. That punch in the ...

April 22, 2013

A prayer for the anxious

Anxiety affects us all at one time or another. In my previous post, Surviving the tsunami of a job loss, I described how anxiety suppresses our creative thinking about how we might respond. In this post and the next, ...

March 20, 2013

A stimulus to read

I enjoy reading, but over the last two years I’ve had to build a habit to do it every morning. Movies, on the other hand, easily engross me. I just sit back and surrender myself to a visual and ...

February 18, 2013

Has excellence got you down?

I’ve been reading a few excellent books lately. How do I know they’re so good? Because as I read them, I found myself thinking, “What? That’s my idea!” In fact, as an aspiring author, I was planning to write ...

January 7, 2013

The impossibility of conventional wisdom

Give it up for Adrian Peterson, running back for the Minnesota Vikings. He had an incredible year, finishing the regular season just nine yards short of the single-season rushing record held by Eric Dickerson since 1984. A remarkable feat, ...

December 25, 2012

Solidarity of the Unnoticed

Recently, I met with a couple of friends to catch up on life. Our conversation became more open when one of them disclosed how much he was struggling with envy at his peers’ accomplishments. In his mind, they’d gone ...

December 17, 2012

Do you view your work as worship?

A couple of months ago I gave a presentation and posted about how we can reclaim a better view of work. Instead of having frustrated ambition, I suggested three ways our thinking about ambition can be changed. One of those ...

November 5, 2012

Have you surrendered your unique advantage?

You are a one-off—a one-of-a-kind blend of skill, personality, drive and passion. There’s nothing new to the idea that each of us is a unique creation. In fact, the folks at despair.com made fun of it in their “demotivational” ...

October 5, 2012

Are you a yielded learner?

When I was a young boy my art teacher gave us the assignment to draw a tree. I remember setting out with enthusiasm to draw the image of a tree that had formed in my head. After a few ...

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