There are three words that I haven't been able to get out of my head for the last two months, Believe, Trust, Do. I've spent a ton of time in my head reflecting on how these three words are connected, and more important, what we're supposed to do with them. Starting a brand new year with wide-open [...]
In just a few days it will be Christmas. That puts us one week away from the beginning of 2020. For many of us, this represents our opportunity to set New Year’s resolutions, which are generally successful through about February before they fall apart. The promises we make to ourselves are usually blurry and not [...]
With 2019 nearing its end, it can be tempting to jump right in and start your 2020 goal setting. Exercise more, eat better, make more money, spend more time with friends, learn something new… If that sounds familiar, I want to share a simple exercise that’s helped me take a snapshot of the previous year [...]
It’s November, and Thanksgiving is one week away. As we approach next Thursday, gratitude should be top of mind, but sometimes we’re just too busy. There are so many distractions and so much noise in our lives. Politically, we’re more divided than ever, and the news is filled with things like impeachment, shootings, and hurt. [...]
A parable that I first heard as a kid resurfaced three different times last week. It tells the story of an old Cherokee teaching his grandson. He shares with the boy that two wolves are battling inside all of us. One wolf is evil – it is pride, arrogance, jealousy, resentment, inferiority, lack, self-pity, regret, [...]
Wednesday nights are one of my favorites. I lead a group of men in a Bible study at my church. Before you dip out thinking I’m about to get spiritual, hang in there with me for a moment. My faith is everything to me, but I’m headed somewhere else with this… As part of our [...]
When I launched the Depth Not Width blog, it came from a place of me feeling stretched thin. I was at a point where I was trying to do too many things with too little time and resources, and I was struggling to juggle it all. I pulled it off for awhile, but my results [...]
Failure. We love to talk about failure and put it on a pedestal. Accept failure, embrace failure, even chase failure. Dare to fail, and fail better. One quote even said, “Don’t think of it as failure – think of it as time-released success.” That’s great until we actually fail. Then our love affair with failure [...]
Fractured and segmented. Cut off and disconnected. Further apart than ever. Looking around today in America, listening to people and taking in the dark news, this is what I see, and I know I’m not the only one. The problem? We spend more time judging others at a glance than we do investing time in [...]
If you follow my writing or the Depth Not Width blog, you probably noticed the last couple of weeks I’ve been pretty quiet. My consistent stream of weekly thoughts and insights did not run dry but was momentarily diverted as I took some time to tend to other things. The funniest thing about that? The [...]
