I once attended a conference where one of the keynote speakers framed her entire talk around one idea. Life is short. She kept repeating one phrase. Your life is a vapor. Even though I consider myself young, I am developing a sense of what she means. My oldest son is now 13. It feels like […]
Love does stuff. And sometimes love runs. Do you remember that school in Northern Uganda I told you about several months ago? Restore Leadership Academy? The one run by Bob Goff and filled with kids that are going to shape the future of Uganda? The one restoring hope to so many that wouldn’t have it […]
This is an article I published today with my friend Allison Vesterfelt. Ally survives the winters of Minnesota by writing, so she’s had plenty of practice. I invite you to visit her blog or follow her on Twitter because she is worth it. In the fall she will be releasing a new book titled Packing […]
Today am publishing an article with Bill Blankschaen. Bill is a ministry and life coach and a writing contributor at patheos.com. He and I are in a race to see who can have the most kids. Right now we are tied at 6. To find out more about Bill visit his blog or follow him […]
Last week I told you that you can’t change the world. It doesn’t matter how right you are. It doesn’t matter how much money you have. It doesn’t matter how eloquent or beautiful you are. You can’t change people. But you can choose to be somebody’s friend. The kind of friendship that matters is about […]
I can’t change the world. I want to. I’m not satisfied with the way everything is. Yes, there is good, but far too often there isn’t. The world can be a hard place. I hope you want, at least to some degree, to change the world too. But we can’t. The World Needs to Change […]
Great stories are like the human brain. Eighty-five percent of our brains are water. A majority of the mass has little to do with anything. It just exists to allow the rest of your brain to function. The other 15% keeps you alive and defines who you are. Our lives are filled with the routine […]
From Jeremy: This is a guest post by J.D. Meier, author of Getting Results the Agile Way. To read more from J.D. visit his blog. We have a little saying at work that goes like this: What’s the Moon Shot? By Moon Shot, we mean, how are you going to go for the moon? What is your […]
In Louisville, Derby season is an incredibly exciting time of year. In case some of you are unaware, the Kentucky Derby is the biggest horse race in the world and is run the first Saturday in May. People travel from all over the world to attend. It a time for our city to shine. For […]
From Jeremy: This is a guest post by Crystal Walton. To read more from Crystal check out her blog or follow her on Twitter and Facebook. It was an invitation I simply couldn’t pass up. I handed over my one-way ticket and boarded a rickety public bus with only a meagerly filled backpack and burgeoning expectations […]
