Archive for the ‘Life Planning’ Category

Leadership Moment: Don’t Wait

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Life is frag­ile, and there are no guar­an­tees about tomor­row. In this Lead­er­ship Moment, Daniel urges you to eval­u­ate your Life Plan so that you are inten­tion­ally adding more value in the time that you have.

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Relationships Take Time

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

If you have ever strug­gled with your spouse, one of your kids, a par­ent, a friend, or a fel­low team­mate, you know how it can neg­a­tively impact the other areas of your life. Con­versely, if you are doing excep­tion­ally well in any of those rela­tion­ships, you know how that over­all feel­ing of good­ness tends to spill over into the other areas of your life.

The depth and qual­ity of our rela­tion­ships directly impacts the over­all qual­ity of our lives. And we all know that deep, high-quality rela­tion­ships take time.

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Traditions!

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Today is the day to start a new tra­di­tion. There is a direct cor­re­la­tion between the fun, the qual­ity, the depth of rela­tion­ships in a close fam­ily and the unique­ness and fre­quency of that family’s traditions.

When fam­i­lies inten­tion­ally develop “their ways” of being a fam­ily early on, they tend to expe­ri­ence greater lev­els of fam­ily health and bond­ing. I have observed this over the years with count­less stand-out fam­i­lies and have adopted much of what I have learned from oth­ers over the years. I am in no way an expert, just a guy who is incred­i­bly pas­sion­ate about serv­ing and lead­ing a solid and lov­ing family.

10 Tra­di­tions to Cre­ate More Fam­ily Connection

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It Has to Lead to Contribution

Friday, April 29th, 2011

The last few years have been espe­cially hard on most of us. Heck, nor­mal life with­out the ram­i­fi­ca­tions of this global eco­nomic melt­down was chal­leng­ing enough. The sad real­ity is that many peo­ple we work with have begun to ques­tion their abil­ity to con­tribute. Maybe we’ve even had those doubts our­selves at times.

Are you hear­ing and believ­ing any of the following?

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How Big is Your Story?

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Last week my wife and I had the priv­i­lege of attend­ing the 90th birth­day party of Chick-fil-A founder, Truett Cathy. There were more than 1000 peo­ple in atten­dance at this cel­e­bra­tion of his life and legacy.

Most of you are prob­a­bly famil­iar with a part of Truett’s story. You may have read that his com­pany started in 1946 with one restau­rant. You might know that they have more than 1300 restau­rants, run by some of the most service-minded lead­ers in busi­ness today. You might be aware that he lives and leads accord­ing to his faith.

What you may not know is just how big his story is.

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