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 During the Great Depression a young boy recalls going with his father on more than one occasion to visit a local banker in his hometown of Piqua, Ohio. The boy remembers sitting in a room by himself while peering through the window into the banker’s office as his father listened intently to the banker…
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 I asked my Facebook friends to complete a survey about what prevents us from changing habits. In other words we have a desire to change and we know what to do in order to change, but we just can’t continue to do what we need to do in order to make the change a…
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 Reflect on Twain’s quote above. Life is too short to not take the time to figure out why God made you (your purpose) and in turn design a life around your “why.” The world runs at warp speed today and if we don’t step back and decide what we want to do with our…
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 I consider myself very fortunate to be able to do what I love to do today. My goal is to help you find the place in your life where what you do intersects with what you love to do. In this intersection lies your passion, lots of energy and genius according to Galileo. I…
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 This is day 19 on our journey of building our life playing field and today we will take a closer look at the strengths and gifts the Good Lord has blessed us with. Just like our guiding principles, our strengths and gifts help create key boundaries/guidelines on our playing field. I like the quote…
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 I love the quote above. What a great way to live! Designing your own personal playing field of life is a great way to enable yourself to live the way Twain is referring to in his quote. Identifying and leveraging our God-given gifts and strengths are critical steps in designing our life playing field….
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 Continued from February 16… Later that evening I asked Jeff, who was a psychologist, about the situation with me standing on the chair and why he told me he didn’t think I belonged in the circle sitting on my chair with the rest of my family. He said something to this extent; “Dude you’ve…
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 It was family week at Greene Hall Chemical Dependency Center back in the summer of 1987, (and no I wasn’t on staff there I was a patient) and one of the counselors, “Jeff” had our family go through an exercise I will never forget. He had my family create a circle around me. We…
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 Today is the start of the third week in our journey of building a playing field for our life. By the end of this process you will have nailed down your guiding principles, gifts/strengths, priorities and passions. Through this process you will gain clarity around your life purpose as well as create a dream…
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 I was talking with a coachee the other day and he was lamenting about some health issues a loved one was facing. He began going down the path of asking himself what he had done wrong in order to deserve this punishment he was receiving from God. I quickly steered him back on the…
I started this blog in 2008 because of my passion for helping others take their lives to the next level. My hope is that, through sharing my life experiences as a business leader, husband, father, and recovering drug addict, I will positively impact your life.