Begin With Focus

Keep your eyes straight ahead, ignore all side-show distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Proverbs 4:25-26 MSG Your sustained focus and God’s sustained Presence can take you anywhere. Jesse Lauder, is a great friend and one of...

Personal Leadership Model?

For years I lived my life like a pick up game of football making up plays at the line of scrimmage.  This worked great in the back yard when I was a boy.  As man it was a disaster.  Twenty years ago I began to made a transforming change by creating a life plan.  My...
How People Change

How People Change

About five years ago, Parker Houston and I began investing in men as spiritual and life leaders.  We practiced encouraging leadership on each other and we’ve never been the same.  Parker is a great husband and dad, a Clinical Psychologist, Executive Coach, and a...
Create Movement

Create Movement

Sick and tired of feeling stuck, stalled, or drifting? Dig down.  Do something different. Be the man.  As John Eldridge says, you are William Wallace in your life, your family, your place in the world.  You can’t dodge this bullet. Either you step now into who...
Big Ask

Big Ask

Are you stalled with what’s next?  Discouraged with what’s happening?  Waiting for someone to invite you into the game?  Frozen  with regrets, bad habits, and a false ceiling?  Stuck in a stalled marriage, a career that has a low ceiling, hopes that have...
Work It Out

Work It Out

SCRIPTURE  // So, in light of what’s true, work it out, the implications of this truth, wrestle with it as a desperate man looking for a way out – wrestle it out with God not alone.  Philippians 2:12  OBSERVATION  // Paul, the old wise guy, who must have fought...