Consider Your Ways for the New Year and Beyond
It’s good to take a break from time to time to consider your ways as you also consider your possible future. You see, the New Year is filled with a lot of advice from leaders, bloggers, journalists and all sorts of people. They’ll give you a lot of words about...
Long-Term Goals: The New Year in View – Step Three
What are your long-term goals and dreams? That’s a tough question to answer for many of us, but it’s an important one to ask. Why are long-term goals and dreams so important? Well, as the recently departed Yogi Berra is credited with saying, “If you don’t know where...New Year Goals In View Step Two: Look Ahead to Next Year
Last week, I introduced the first of a three-step process I use throughout December to help me reflect, ponder and plan for the coming New Year. That first step can really seem more like a “pause” than a step because it involves taking time to look back....
New Year in View Step One: Look Back
During the time that we have left in 2015, I am going to share three posts that show how I approach the coming New Year. It has helped keep me personally accountable for my own success and pulled me out of many a slumps over the years. I am sharing this for a couple...
The Secret to Your Future
I don’t know about you, but I’m already feeling that odd sentiment that starts once Thanksgiving has passed and we’ve entered into the lull” that lasts through Christmas. It’s hard to explain, and maybe I am the only one that every feels...
How My Daughter’s Baptism Revealed My Greatest Hope
My second daughter was baptized in March of 2008. The pastor asked my wife and I to pick a scripture we wanted to read for the day. He said it didn’t have to relate to baptism and it could be more about Stella and our hopes for her life. It proved to be a bigger...
10 Quick Takes on New Year’s Resolutions – What’s Yours?
I’ve use the last few days to talk about New Year’s resolutions. For some reason, I am prone to getting really into the coming of a new year, but I don’t make specific resolutions. Instead, I make a generalization through affirmations. That said, I...