Thoughts on coaching, primal questions, and the hard work of honest change.
I can spend a whole day being incredibly busy and produce absolutely nothing. And I never feel lazy doing it, because it is work. Real work, even.. just the wrong work. The cart-before-the-horse kind.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
If you’ve ever been depressed and tried to tell someone about it, you know the look. There’s a half-second pause. Then the pivot. “Have you…
I shared this message at Generations Church in 2020. Sharing my story in a small Celebrate Recovery group on a Friday night is one thing…
This is the true joy of life: the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of…
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
If you’ve been following my blog lately, you may have noticed a pattern. I wrote about my approval addiction. I wrote about my ongoing battle…
If you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance you already know resentment is bad for you. You’ve heard the metaphor about drinking poison and expecting…
A few years ago I had the opportunity to speak at Generations Church as part of a series called “7 Words That Will Change Your…
There’s a short film called It’s Not About the Nail that cracks me up every time. A woman is explaining to her partner how she…
You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Irish saying
Hi, my name is Justin, and I’m an approval addict.There, I said it. If you’ve ever found yourself rehearsing a conversation in your head for…
For a long time, I thought integrity meant being the buttoned-up guy who never messes up. The stuffy shirt who looks down on everyone else.…
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing…
Jacob Riis
What’s brown and sticky? A stick. It’s a dumb joke, but it’s one of my faves. I am a dad after all.It also happens to…
Recently I’ve started following the work of James Clear. He seems to be (at least trying to be) a 21st century version of Stephen Covey or maybe…
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