Category: Priorities
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Do you trust Me?
There’s a scene in the Disney movie Aladdin, where princess Jasmine is on the palace balcony and Aladdin invites her to go for a ride on his magic carpet. She asks, “Is it safe?” To which Aladdin replies “sure.” He extends his hand and asks, “Do you trust me?” She replies, yes, takes his hand…
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Room for Relationships?
We are created for the very purpose of relationship! First, with God and then with others. Which is why the greatest commandment of all fits in perfectly with the reason we exist. Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, The Lord is one, And you shall love the Lord your God with your heart, with…
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Retirement is a Ridiculous Pursuit!
In the current presidential election cycle much discussion has centered around the chronological age of the candidates, implying they are too old to serve. Quite frankly, instead of focusing on the chronological age of a candidate, I’m much more concerned about their conduct and character. That said, there are certainly times when age can impact…
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Anyone want less in life?
Do you want the most out of life? Does anyone get up in the morning and say, “I think I want less in life?” Sound like trick question? It’s not intended to be. There is quite a distinction though between the phrase “I want the most out of life” and “I want less in life.”…
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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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Relationship Precedes Task
Only in a Western work culture do we blow past relationships and go straight to the task and work at hand. In my overseas travels over the past 24 years, every culture I have encountered understands that relationship precedes task except in western culture and those countries who adopt the west’s work practices. During my…
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Build A Wall!
I hope the title of this post got your attention. I promise it’s not “click bait” I do want you to build a wall. Just not the one that probably came to mind when you read today’s title. This will not be a politically laced message about the need to protect U.S. borders and address…
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Pardon the Interruption
My oldest son C.J. and I meet each Tuesday for dinner and coffee. We usually eat at our favorite place to get Peruvian chicken and then after dinner, head a few doors down to a coffee shop in the same plaza. It’s a special time each week to spend father and son time together, talk…
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Goals or Objectives?
Goals, objectives, are they one in the same? I think there are some distinctions between the two. Objectives may have a goal component to them, but objectives are efforts or actions intended to attain or accomplish a purpose, while goals focus more on a certain result. For instance, a goal could be to lose 30…
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Of course, I’m Pro Choice!
Did you panic or want to tune me out when you saw today’s blog title? Please don’t! I despise it when a group or political movement coopt and manipulate a perfectly good phrase such as “pro-choice” to promote or further their propaganda campaigns and agendas. In the abortion debate (which isn’t a debate at all,…
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