I subscribed to “The Week Junior,” a weekly newspaper for kids to give my six-year-old son something to read this summer, and give him the opportunity to learn about the broader world. Funny enough, the first issue included a study that confirmed something I’d anecdotally observed through my life abroad: People in impoverished and evenContinue reading “The Dissatisfied American”
Tag Archives: self-improvement
Excellence is a Christian Duty
Christians sometimes demonstrate a bad habit: Too often, we contort our theology to avoid the work it takes to be excellent at the responsibilities God assigned us to advance His kingdom.
Smug Know-it-alls Abound
Be Less Confident. Say Less. Say Nothing, Even.
My Top 10 Books
Books are a treasure, and here is a list of books I treasure most highly.
(Self-) Image is Everything
Want to unlock your performance and can’t figure out why your hard work isn’t paying off like you think it should? The problem may not be in what you do but instead of how you think. Specifically, how you think about yourself.
Winning Spurs
The Black Prince and an astonishing tale of courage at a young age.
Don’t Hold Back
You never know what a difference a kind and affirming word might make in someone’s life. We should never miss an opportunity to offer kind and sincere words of affirmation for those around us. It costs us nothing but a bit of time, but positively impacting those around us is always time well spent.
The Spoken Word
I’ve been delinquent in writing this last month, but that is in part due to the fact I’ve been speaking a good bit. It just dawned on me today (as I age I can occasionally be slow-witted) that I could also post my podcast appearances periodically so those discussions are archived and available as well.
Rudeness Ruins Rightness
Punctilious courtesy, good manners, and the Golden Rule reflect an attitude and acknowledgement that other people are, you know…actually people, equally deserving of consideration and basic decent and civil treatment despite our differences.
Make America Great
Today we celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, which told the world that the United States of America were a new, free, and independent republic joining the community of nations. This new Republic would in fact change and shape the course of western civilization and the world for the two centuries that followedContinue reading “Make America Great”
Amplified Being 