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 […]
Your Strengths – Your Unfair Advantage
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 […]
Taking Responsible Action – Living an Urgently Intentional Life
[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 […]
Men & Stress
We’ve all met Larry – the guy who got hammered by a major event at work or home, but was able to bounce back. Then there’s Mike – the guy who experienced what seemed to be a hiccough by comparison, but never seemed to get over it. What made the difference? More to the point, […]
Wellbeing – Taking Responsible Action
May 11 will be Day Zero for 4 million residents of Cape Town, South Africa. After 3 years of prolonged drought, the reservoirs supplying Cape Town have dried up. Efforts to encourage conservation have largely gone unheeded. On May 11, Cape Town will close the valve for residential water customers. Plans have been drafted to drill into […]
How do you know when it’s time to talk with a counselor?
Everyone encounters challenges in their lives. Much of the time, we’re able to respond to the challenges on our own using the resources we have or have learned. Much of the time, we respond fairly well, the challenge is resolved, and we move on with our lives. Most of the time, that process works. Sometimes […]
Be the Man
Some thoughts on… Being the man you’d like to be Get a clear picture of your ideal. A positive “I am” or “I do” is much more motivating than “I’m not” or “I don’t.” A clear, concise positive statement is like the goal-line. Get clear about why that man is your ideal. Put your ideal […]
