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Mastering Your Circles: Gain Clarity in Life Decisions
Many of us feel like we’re running around in circles. That’s not this. This is a simple tool that will help walk you through life-altering decisions. I would recommend doing this at the end of every year or whenever you feel stuck… As I coach people in various sectors, the same three problems keep cropping…
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How to Help Lonely Leaders
In response to my last post on Understanding the Loneliness of Church Leaders, a few people asked me how they might help. Here are my encouragements in brief. I’m glad people want to help. Hopefully, these are seven ways that you can be empowered to move toward the vulnerable.
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Your Definitive Guide to Effective SMART Goal Setting
Setting goals is the first step toward achieving success, whether it’s in your career, personal life, or relationships. But how do you ensure your goals are effective and attainable? Enter the SMART goals framework, a proven method to help you create clear, actionable, and realistic objectives. Let’s break it down so you can start setting SMART…
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Understanding the Loneliness of Church Leaders
I just got wind of another pastor committing suicide. I was slow to write on this because I don’t want to be in the habit of being a pundit. Instead, it is good to simply lament. Of course there were many specific circumstances that led to this particular pastor’s decision to shoot himself…but I am…
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Gaining Hope By Gazing Upon Hurt?
In his majestic poem, “Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”, William Wordsworth writes: Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! And let the young Lambs bound As to the tabor’s sound! We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your…