A brand is what people think of you. When your name comes to mind, what they think about, that’s your brand. -- James Rubart It can help to know what your brand is when you do anything entrepreneurial because then you stay true to who you are, to what drives you, to what keeps you [...]
Imagine you’ve worked incredibly hard to get to where you are. You’ve written more than ten books. You’ve taken every class on speaking you could find, and you’ve taught for free wherever they’d have you. You’ve spent decades working on your artistic skills. You’ve served in every position you could find that would teach you [...]
A collection of thoughts I've had: We've been religious for decades about the words that come out of our mouths, but it's not about the words, it's about the hearts behind the words. Once your heart is whole, you don't have to focus on what comes out of your mouth. You can just focus on [...]
God had the Israelites pile rocks from the river bed as a memorial to the power of God to deliver them, and to bring them to the other side of the impossible and into their amazing futures. We are all unique seeing, communicating, loving, resting, supporting, laughing, organizing, thinking, teaching, light-filled, visible beacons—living stones—living memorials [...]
"The first step in asceticism the desert will teach you is purification from haste, agitation, impatience, pressure. In the desert you have to get rid of the 'master of the situation' complex. You find that you are little, insignificant, squeezed in on a waiting bench. No one takes any notice of your needs. Your name [...]
It is not a woman's job to make a man feel better about himself. It is not a man's job to make a woman feel better about herself. Value must come from within, and the responsibility to feel better about yourself comes from within too. When someone then treats you with value, you can nod your [...]
You can ask God for anything you want; you can dream; you can hope; you can believe he has your best life in mind, but the bottom line is that his plans are better and his dreams go higher than yours. So when you next talk to God and you totally trust the depths of [...]
Hey you, yes ... YOU! You know that stoopid thing you said today, or that stoopid thing you did yesterday, or that opportunity you were stoopid to miss last week, or those persistent creepy thoughts you have from time to time? You know what it all means, right? Yes. It's true. You're ... NORMAL! Seriously, [...]
People judge all the time, and then they post their judgments online for all to see. Religion, lifestyle, clothing choices -- assumption after assumption about people they have usually never spent the time talking or listening to. Public shaming for those posts, or creating more rules to stop them, is not the answer though. Neither [...]
