Category: Practices
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Pedestals make lousy houses!
It seems like hardly a week goes by where a well-known personality, professional athlete, politician or pastor confesses to or is confronted with an integrity breach, moral failure, or questionable actions, resulting in personal pain, loss of prestige and position, requiring them to resign or be forced to step away from their roles and responsibilities.…
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Are you a thermostat or thermometer?
Are you more like a thermostat or a thermometer? A thermostat sets and controls the temperature in a room or space. It functions to manage and maintain a desired temperature. Thermostats serve as a manager or governor. A thermometer on the other hand is an instrument for measuring. A thermometer simply measures the existing temperature.…
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Talk to not about one another.
Ever notice folks have the tendency to talk about others rather than talking to them? Nothing frosts me more than finding out someone has an issue with me and rather than coming to me directly, they go to someone else and air their complaint in hopes it will get back to me. That is a…
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Difficult Discussions
Over the past few months both at work and in my personal life I have had to engage in several difficult discussions. Conversations requiring a significant level of confrontation. Usually, I am quite diligent when it comes to addressing sticky or sensitive issues in a timely manner. I had a lot of pressing projects going…
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My most difficult blog yet!
Today marks my 100th weekly blog post since beginning The Rest Stop just under two years ago. This is to date the most challenging and difficult blog I’ve ever attempted to write. Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute…
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Genuine Generosity
In my journey toward greater life balance, few things rattled me more than the discovery of how selfish and self-centered I was. Even though I have been a follower of Jesus for over 50 years, an honest look inward revealed a heart that was more miserly, materialistic, and me-centered rather than others-centered, I had to…
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Do you have Qi?
Do you have Qi? The word Qi pronounced “Chee” Is traditional Chinese medicine commonly defined as vital energy or life force that keeps a person’s spiritual, emotional, mental and physical health in balance. Those of you who have followed this blog for any amount of time know that I frequently refer to our spiritual, emotional,…
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Rightsizing your life
When a business increases infrastructure or operational costs to the point where it can no longer sustain profitability, it’s leadership and stakeholders will often resort to rightsizing or downsizing the organization. Reasons for engaging in downsizing efforts can include, your industry is declining, economic recession, rising costs, or less demand for your product or services…
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Night then Day.
For most people, life tends to revolve around work. Instead of life driving labor we live in a way where labor drives life. We start and focus each morning on work, and it determines and drives our day. We put work ahead of our marriages and families and don’t take nearly enough time to cultivate…
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Don’t idolize the scaffolding.
I want you to picture in your mind’s eye a team of painters who have been contracted to paint a five-story building. As they begin this project, to gain access to all parts of the structure they will need to put up scaffolding. Hold that thought, but now I want you to think about your…
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