3 things keeping you from more margin
There are three things keeping you and me from creating more margin in our lives.
Tag Archives: anxiety
What do I do with the unsettled questions in my life?
When it comes to our deepest aspirations, we all have unsettled questions: How long should I continue this pursuit? Am I giving my time to the best things right now? Will my approach bring me what I expect? Recently, ...
The price of anxiety
There’s no shortage of things to be anxious about. We may have anxiety about our jobs, our bank account, our family, our health, the future of our country. Anxiety disorder affects nearly one in every seven adults, making it ...
Give your dream eight feet of chance
Getting your dream to take flight is hard work. Whether its leading a business, or writing a book, launching a new career, or developing a new competence, it takes time to cultivate the momentum that makes you feel like ...
Is your mastery a mystery?
“I don’t know what I’m good at.” I hear that comment a lot. I’ve often even thought it myself. There’s a lot of talk about mastery. It’s one of the three elements of intrinsic motivation that Daniel Pink describes ...
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 ...
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, ...
Surviving the tsunami of a job loss
You’ve just been hit with a tsunami. At least that how it seems now that you’ve been told that your “services are no longer needed.” Alternating between anger, discouragement, perplexion, and panic you ask: How could this have happened? ...
Dream Assassin #1: Fear
As a service to my fellow brothers and sisters desiring to live out their calling to make this world a better place, I’m issuing a series of Public Service Announcements. There are dream assassins on the loose and today’s ...
Thought for the Day – Ephesians 5:20 on Thankfulness
…always giving thanks to God the Father for everything.’ – Ephesians 5:20 (NIV) The other day I left home late for a meeting at my office. That’s not altogether unusual. Often, I try to squeeze too many things into ...
