Extraordinarily effective people make choices, have an opportunity based mindset, and are focused on relationships. Howard covers these keys from Put First Things First — Habit 3 of Stephen Covey’s book, 7 Habit of Highly Effective people, and provides a practical framework for how to work on what is most important without getting caught up ineffective actions or time-wasting activities.

Do you want to start increasing your effectiveness today? If so, you have important choices to make. Our choices determine our effectiveness and prove our faithfulness.

In this short compilation Willie Baldwin, Hamp Holcomb, Howard Graham, and Mike Rohdy touch on the most important aspects of how to begin with the end in mind. They define what the end goal of our work truly is and how we can use the resources at our disposal to achieve it.

Listen as Willie Baldwin joins Howard to unpack how beginning with the end in mind changes how you live and work. Willie touches on how this principle transforms your daily relationships with your coworkers, clients, and even your family. 

In this episode, Hamp Holcomb and Howard discuss how the ability to effectively set and achieve goals can impact the trajectory of your career. Hamp shares personable stories and practical lessons he’s learned throughout his career about how beginning with the end in mind altered the goals he set and how he went about achieving them. 

Listen as Howard, Dan Butler and Drew Pera explain what it means to be proactive by making choices and taking action in some very difficult circumstances. You will hear how Dan and Drew were able to move from what seemed like a lack of control in their work to taking full agency by implementing very practical steps to make a difference for those in their circle of influence.

The real key to a life lived on purpose is to begin with the end in mind. Therefore, for alignment you must pick the right purpose and then work backwards — by taking on missional goals that support your life purpose and working toward temporary goals that fulfill your missional goals, putting everything you have toward one thing.

From the rural hills of Alabama to the plains of West Tennessee, God has taken Rex Jones on an incredible journey. In this video Rex describes how the many changes in his career were used by God to draw Rex closer to Himself.

Proactivity is more than merely taking initiative. It means that as human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.