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Straighten Your Aim

Stay pure. Stay on purpose. Lust for money, power, and sex destroys lives. Jesus teaches us how to live in the kingdom of God. Jesus is inviting us to take a drastic measures to keep our aim pure, especially in our sex life.

The Advantage of Simple, Direct Communication

Manipulation and making promises that include things we don’t control destroys trust. Making clear realistic promises and keeping them builds trust. Watch and better understand how simple integrity really is.

Just Yes or No

It’s that simple! Say yes, when you mean it. Say no when you mean it. A person who has integrity believes the right things, speaks what they believe and follows through and doing the right things.

The Advantage of Going Further

None of us are strangers to “going the extra mile” for our favorite coworkers, clients, and best friends. It’s satisfying to help someone and know they appreciate it. Yet, our biggest opportunity may be to “go further’” with those who we are not predisposed to serve — where we don’t see a return for our investment. Watch this video as Howard explains the very practical benefits of “going further” for the good of others.

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The Price We Pay For Being Less Social

Removing the routine obligations of social life drains presence, conversational practice, relational effort and friendship from all of us. Exciting new research shows that talking with responsive communication partners softens our viewpoints, reduces our need to be right, and helps us become less self-focused.

There’s Still a Limit to How Much In-Person Socializing Many Can Handle

Despite a widespread desire to get back to normal, social bandwidth is lower for many than it was pre-pandemic, mental-health professionals say.

We Need More Holy Fools

A man is trapped in a car, rushing down a hill toward a cliff. The doors are locked. The brakes are out. The steering barely works. Far ahead, he can see other cars hurtling into the abyss. How far they fall, he does not know. What they find at the bottom, he cannot imagine.

3 steps Navy SEALs use to make decisions

We make thousands of decisions daily. Some are trivial, others are massive. When making these choices, it can be easy to get caught up in methodically weighing all your options. While it feels like a sensible process, it can cause you to miss opportunities. Sometimes you just need to make the call.

Calkins: After A Week Of Horror, Should We Still Choose 901?

“I worry that people will give up. My friend Pitt Hyde, in response to all this, told me, ‘We don’t need to give up, we need to double down.’ We need to double down to try and come together and set aside whatever differences we have and say, ‘This is our home.’ ” - Scott Morris

Designing Work That People Love

To attract and retain the best people, we must redesign jobs around a simple but powerful concept: love for the content of the work itself.

Set Expectations for Being Better Together

“These days there seems to be a thousand ways we are torn apart from each other, with few paths that draw us closer together…setting an expectation that attempts to find shared culture and values does make it possible to achieve more…”

The Two Choices That Keep a Midlife Crisis at Bay

Middle age is an opportunity to find transcendence.

The Power of Healthy Relationships at Work

In healthy work relationships, everyone benefits, and everyone experiences moments of authentic happiness and enjoy. Businesses thrive under such leadership.

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