Tag Archives | Health

The One Thing Leaders Must Have To Survive Shocking And Unexpected Events

Have you ever been shocked?  I mean really shocked?  That is what came to my mind when I first watched the video above?  I though “Wow!  Where did that come from? Was that shark really that close to land?”  It is truly a shocking video. Sarah Brame’s encounter with a bull shark while fishing off a deck in South Carolina brought back […]

Continue Reading

The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of August 6th

This has been an incredible week for leadership training!  The Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit stretched me in ways I have not been stretched in a long time.  You can read my favorite posts from that 2-day event by clicking here and here. In addition to the Summit, I also read a multitude of incredible leadership […]

Continue Reading

The Most Horrifying Image I’ve Ever Seen And What We Can Do About It

What you are looking at are the effects of a disease called Podoconiosis.  “Podoconiosis (”dust in the feet’) presents as bilateral asymmetrical swelling of the feet and lower legs. It is seen in susceptible families of bare-footed farmers in well-defined fertile volcanic highland zones of Africa, Central and South America, and Indonesia, and also in the lowlands […]

Continue Reading

5 Questions To Determine If Your Church Is The Happiest Place You Could Ever Imagine

I recently was at a conference where North Point Community Church’s Andy Stanley asked the question “Why are so many 18-35 year olds leaving church?”  His startling answer – “Because they’ve been to one.”  Ouch! My wife and I are greeters at Fellowship Bible Church and it is alarming when people arrive looking like they do not want […]

Continue Reading

The Top Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of May 28th

There is a difference between leader development and leadership development.  Leader development has to do with the person God is molding and shaping you to be.  Leadership development has to do with skills, task, and assignment. It has been an amazing week in terms of reading challenging content that has to do with leader development.  I have […]

Continue Reading

11 Leadership Quotes And Principles From October Baby

“You saw me before I was born.” Psalm 139:16 (NLT) Today I chose to October Baby over Hunger Games and I am glad I did!  October Baby is an incredibly moving story that tells us the importance that every human life has.  This film by Jon and Andrew Erwin follows the story of a college student named […]

Continue Reading

8 Results Of Fatigue In My Life As A Leader

This is the toughest blog I have ever written.  It is tough because of the consequences of something that affects most, if not all, leaders including me. Leaders get tired.  Because of the pace and rhythm at which leaders operate, fatigue is a constant companion.  In worst case scenarios, burnout and depression set in.  These […]

Continue Reading

Designed by Rolla Creative