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What a Cold Bath Taught Me About Failure (Video)

About a year after my wife and I got married, we decided it was time to buy a house.
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Keep Your Eyes on Jesus

My focus is not on my financial situation or the state of my country. My focus is on Jesus.
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Who Has Influenced Your Life? Whose Life Are You influencing?

These are just some of the influences in my life. I hope I am an influence in other people’s lives the way they have been in mine. Much of who I am is because of their influence and I am thankful.
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Climbing to Our God-Given Potential Together

I am investing the rest of my life sharing my experiences and lessons through speaking, writing, and coaching. For those of you who have joined me on this journey, I hope I get to see more and more of you as we take this journey together. I know this journey may not be everybody’s cup of tea, but for some of you, this is exactly what you want out of life.
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First Roadblock: Denial; Blockbuster: Positive Self-Talk

Consistent denial of our abilities and responsibilities will stop us in our tracks. We cannot climb to our God-given potential when we deny the fact that God has made us for greatness.
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Busting Through Roadblocks to Your God-Given Potential

What is your spark? What is it that you love to experience so much that you must help others experience the same thing?
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How the Bible Says to Build Winning Relationships

Always do what is good for others even if they are not doing the same for us. Someone has to set the standard. If we dumb down to their level of thinking and acting then we have allowed them to set our standard. Let us set our own higher standard.
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Are You Wasting Your Life?

To say, “I am the same person I have always been” is to say “I have never grown up” or “I am not any smarter now than I ever was” or “I just don’t give a crap about getting any better in any area of my life”.
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Are You Going to Dream or Are You Going to Climb?

Sometimes I hear people talking about waiting on God. God has made it very plain that waiting is what we need to do, then wait. However, most of the time we are just trying to spiritualize our reluctance to take action. I get this strong feeling that God is probably waiting on them.
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How I Went From a 6th-grade Flunky to 4.0 Grad Student

I wrote a blog about how I went from a 6th-grade flunky who always struggled academically to a student that excelled in a Master’s program with a 4.0 GPA. Someone made the comment that the school must not have been very good if someone who always struggled academically was able to do so well. I think his insinuation was that it was not a “real” Master's from a “real” school.