I recently attended a movie screening for the upcoming movie that is being released on March 21st entitled God’s Not Dead. It is the story of a college freshman who finds his faith challenged on his first day of Philosophy class by his dogmatic and argumentative professor – a man…

Recently a colleague and I disagreed on something at work.  I was trying to look at the perspective of everyone involved, while my colleague did not have the same perspective.  This was mostly due to the fact that they had missed several of the meetings I had attended to gain…

We spent a great day yesterday on a road trip to Atlanta.  We went to a cousin’s house and the kids got to hang out and play; then we went to the cousin’s birthday party that afternoon; met my brother in law for dinner that evening; then drove home late…

No matter what team you were routing for in Super Bowl XLVIII (or you were like me and didn’t really have an alliance but wanted to see a good game), the game that was just played was a great example of two teams playing at the highest level. The only problem…

How many times did I pray this week, and ask God to help me with something?  How many times did I tell someone I was going to do something and then I did it?  How many times did I start something and then I didn’t finish it? Or not. Or…

Do you know where the most powerful source of confidence comes from? Do you think it comes from accomplishing things? Believing in yourself? Taking action? Yes, those things are definitely very helpful.  But they really don’t completely do it.   You’d think confidence comes from believing in yourself or your…

I was in a situation several weeks ago where I disagreed with a peer of mine about something, but I was not prepared to discuss it at that point (I had not finished looking into it).   Yet my peer decided he was ready to discuss it immediately and continued to…

I just had lunch last week with a co-worker whose job was “deleted” last week (that is what he called it). I was unaware that this happened (they don’t put out group emails about these type of things in my office!) but was once again keenly reminded how our careers…

Several times this week I was in a meeting and other people started criticizing what another department wasn’t doing correctly, how they were doing something that wasn’t effective, how badly the direction a project was going, etc. So I decided to join in. And my human flesh became evident. I…

I recently read an article from Jeff Weiner / CEO at LinkedIn that talked about the importance of scheduling nothing and it really got me to thinking again about everything currently going on at my job. How do your days look when you are at work? Is it non-stop meetings,…