The recent suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain were shocking events. Like a boulder dropped in the middle of a lake, the shock waves of their suicide flow in every direction. The lives of their families and friends have been shattered. Even those far-removed Bourdain or Spade’s social circles feel the effect.  CNN reported […]

Bob was not prepared when the State Patrol flagged him for a roadside stop.  He blew a .06  Another beer or two would have put him over Colorado’s .08 BAC. The next morning, Bob saw how close he had come to a DUI.  A couple clicks led him to NoDUIColorado.org.  Last night’s party with friends […]

Neuroticism is a term describing the “tendency to experience frequent and intense negative emotions in response to various sources of stress.” (Barlow, et al.)   Neuroticism is a way of describing the health of your emotional immune system. Your body’s immune system has the task of keeping us healthy by identifying and overcoming infection or disease […]

Many Baby-boomers will remember The Byrd’s soft-rock song rendition of Ecclesiastes 3, Turn, Turn, Turn For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. (“Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. […]

A few weeks ago, I explained that the OCEAN model of personality measures each of the five dimensions along a continuum from low to high, and that the elements comprising the five dimensions also exist along a continuum from low to high. At the heart of this series is the belief that there is no […]

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.105″ background_layout=”light”] This series of blog posts are based on the five factor model of personality. I’m describing it as navigating your OCEAN (an acronym describing each of the five factors or dimensions) I wrote earlier that one aspect of using your unfair advantage is understanding that these five dimensions of personality are […]

In this series, it’s important to understand that each of the five dimensions of personality exist along a continuum from low to high.  And, each of the elements that comprise the five dimensions also exist along a continuum from low to high. Finally, it’s important to understand that in the OCEAN model of personality, there […]

Last week, I wrote about leveraging your unfair advantages to achieve the life you were created for.  Your unfair advantage is your personal, one-of-a-kind contribution that you make to the world.  Your unfair advantage is how you make your family, your church, your work, your community a better place.  One day, your unfair advantage will […]

In a previous blogpost I recommended constructing a personal SWOT matrix – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats – as a step toward living with urgent intentionality.  Urgent vs. Business as Usual. Intentional vs. Meandering.  Whether in business or life, living with – and creating – genuine urgency is the need of the hour (Kotter’s books […]

[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.85″ background_layout=”light”] Recommended reading: A Sense of Urgency, by John Kotter. Discovering points of application for a man’s life. Urgency is about change. Urgency describes a compelling vision of something very different for the future. The opposite of urgent is, well, non-urgent. Optional. Status quo. Indifference. Complacency. Complacency is the enemy of […]