The Enemy Within

Alarm Clock

“The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.” -Jesus Here’s the scene. The disciples are hanging out with Jesus for one last night. He has already told them that he would be betrayed, and that things were going get rather uncomfortable. So, he makes just one request…stay awake, and pray. But the dudes can’t [...]

Crossing the Chasm

Chasm

The way life is supposed to work is we stumble upon our passions in our youth, we develop them, and deploy them into our vocation, and spend our adult lives living out our calling.  Sounds great, huh?  All we need to do is look around and see  that is not the story most of us are [...]

Why You Must Seize Your Calling. Now.

Another late end of the workday

1. The boom is not coming back, and the bust will get worse. We live in a post-bust world.  This is the new normal.  Get used to it.  Your equity is not coming back.  It wasn’t real anyway.  Neither is your 401K.  The Dow Jones might come back to 15,000, but in deflated dollars.  What [...]

Groundhog Day

bill-murray-groundhog

In the movie “Groundhog Day,” Bill Murray is forced to live the same day over an over again.  Initially, he pursues the superficial goals of his Shell Identity.  He tries to make lots of cash, get women to go to bed with him, etc.  Eventually, these things no longer satisfy him.  He is bored with [...]

What We Really Want

Isolated Road Sign: New Life

“I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one [...]