Michael Hyatt shared this quote from Do The Work (Steven Pressfield) on his blog and I had to repost it! Great stuff! The three dumbest guys I can think of: Charles Lindbergh, Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill. Why? Because any smart person who understood how impossibly arduous were the tasks they had set themselves would have…
I read these great thoughts on teamwork this morning: “For there to be teamwork, several things must happen. First, team members must genuinely believe that the value of the team’s success is greater than the value of their own individual interests. Second, personal sacrifice must be encouraged and then rewarded – by the team leader…
1. By God’s grace I am what I am. 2. I’m not finished growing, I keep moving forward. 3. I’m not a victim. I’m privileged to glorify Christ through suffering. 4. I refuse to make excuses for my failure. 5. I own my mistakes, learn from them, and become wiser. 6. I can’t make everyone…
Regardless of how you feel about Ray Lewis, his impact upon his team is indisputable. Like him, or hate him, the Baltimore Ravens would not be World Champions without him.
God created only one model with my exact DNA. He specifically selected my parents, siblings, race, nationality, mental capacity, physical features and time in history. Like any responsible artist, architect, designer or inventor, God certainly had a precise purpose in mind before He went to all the trouble assembling me.
Theologian Frederick Buechner noted that, “vocation is where our greatest passion meets the world’s greatest need.” I believe all of us have the capacity to live out our passion in a manner that serves others – and ultimately changes the world in our own small way. The same God who created our lives for serving…
An Apple commercial from 1997 has Steve Jobs narrating these words: Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only…
For Walt, his greatest ADVERSITY always brought about his greatest IDEAS. Opposition for him always pushed him to greater levels of imagination and resolve. Perhaps that’s why he was able to say with such grace, “I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.”
Christmas outreach to prisoners’ kids, inner-city children, under-served communities, and juvenile detention centers.
RESPONDING TO THE NEWTOWN TRAGEDY Ecclesiastes 8:14 “Sometimes something useless happens on earth. Bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to Bad people.” (NCV)