May 23, 2014

Is the habit of journaling worth the investment of time?

Is journaling worth the investment in time?

I’ve been journaling daily for just over 18 months—550 days to be exact—long enough that it’s become an entrenched habit for me. It’s also long enough to ask the question: Is the return on this activity worth the investment ...

May 7, 2014

The measure of your day

How do you measure the success of your day? By how much you got done? How much fun you had? Whether you met an interesting person? How about by what you gave away? Or rather, how much of yourself ...

April 21, 2014

The top 5 reasons I don’t keep my commitments

It bothers me when I don’t keep my commitments. It’s the kind of bother that hangs on me for a long time. For example, I have yet to write a term paper I promised to a college professor before ...

April 14, 2014

Father, forgive them – a dad’s lesson in parenting

I’m blogging over at Family Life’s Stepping Up blog today. Here’s an excerpt on an important lesson I learned raising my kids that was written years ago for the DadPad blog. I had lunch this week with Dave, a ...

April 2, 2014

Five clues to the voices that drive you

Who’s voice is that in your head? The creator of the Peanuts cartoon, Charles M. Schulz, once said, “Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is ...

March 5, 2014

Four forces keeping you from the help you need

The comic strip character Pogo once parodied a U.S. Navy Commodore’s message by saying, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” That sentiment aptly sums up many of the challenges I’ve wrestled with over the years. ...

February 27, 2014

Awaken your inner apprentice

You’re good at what you do. So good, in fact, that others come to you for counsel—to be their mentor. But don’t let yourself get away with that. Awaken your inner apprentice instead. All of us should practice ...

February 14, 2014

The half-life of encouragement

Back in college I learned about a half-life. It’s the time it takes for half of a substance to decay. The half-life of known radioactive elements range from 1.8 milliseconds for Unuoctium to 4 million years for Technetium. But ...

February 13, 2014

Is your identity a spiritual endeavor?

Over on the Reinventure Me podcast today my co-host, Armin Assadi, and I discuss how change affects identity and why it’s important to think of identity as an integration of our various roles. It’s easy to describe ourselves by ...

February 6, 2014

Mindset podcast on good thinking

Think about this. We spend a great deal of our lives thinking. Thinking far too much about ourselves—How do I fit in? What value do I bring? What do they think of me? And thinking far too poorly—we either ...

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