If you're like me, an emerging leader, you value high performance, high achievement, excellence, work ethic, working hard, and working smart, I want to tell you that the ideas in this post can come across as challenging, uncomfortable, and even slightly offensive.
Beware...
Not to sound overdramatic, but this could be the most important post that you read all year. Here's why.
I get to work with a bunch of amazing students who are actively growing in Christian leadership. They are learning how to lead themselves first, so that they can in turn lead others...
You want to know why my can of candy that used to be filled to the brim with gummies is empty? It's because I kept this can in the car and I would eat the gummies at every red light.
Now they're all gone.
In my Leadership Mastermind classes, my students have been practicing the...
So you've set some goals this year.
Let's say you want to get an A in a specific class. You want to pass the APUSH exam. You want to repair a friendship that is broken or breaking. You want to make some new friends. You want to join some kind of leadership position or take on...
Ready for your SAT word of the day? No, really, this one's useful.
ANGST.
It's that feeling in your mind, like there's a tangled mess of thoughts and feelings, just filling your head. It can feel like overwhelm. Stress. Mental chaos that keeps you up at night.
I'm going to share with you a...
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School's back in session! How's it going? Are you off to a strong start? Not really? It's still the beginning of a new year and it's not too late to start strong.
The Gap and the Gain
I want to introduce you to a very simple but important concept that has become...
It's more than a college major, more than a job and a career--though it can include these.
A Mission is a reason for existence that is driven more by IDENTITY (character/who you are) than by ability (skills/what you can do)--because what a person wants to DO in life is determined by who he/she...
I have good news and I have bad news. Which do you want first? If you're like me, I always pick the bad news first because then the good news can override it.
The bad news: Because of Adam and Eve and our fall with them in the Garden of Eden, we're guaranteed to have problems for the rest...
When you hear the word "passion," do you have a positive reaction or a negative reaction?
I have both! I have a love-hate relationship with passion.... On the one hand, I love passion because I actually identify as a passionate person--somebody who loves life and isn't afraid to show it. I take...
One of the most important skills that every leader must develop is the skill of communication. So, in a conversation, which is more important: speaking or listening?
If you said listening, you would be right.
It's biblical to be a good listener. James 1:19 says that everyone should be quick to...
Would you rather ask for permission or ask for forgiveness? When you see something that needs to be done, do you do it yourself, or do you hope somebody else will do it? Are you more of a thinker or more of a doer? Today, we dive into chapter 10 of this book in our exploration of the 21...
If you had to give away ONE MILLION DOLLARS, who would you give it to?
That is the question that I asked to my Leadership Mastermind students last week when we were discussing chapter 9 of the book The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow...
