As we begin to think about the New Year, we want to be intentional about the past, the present, and the future, and how we can work to get better. We may have had a treacherous year and your emotional bank account is at “zero”, or a fantastic year and your battery are already charged, but just like every new day, comes a New Year and our golden opportunity to make it our best year yet. It comes in at midnight, fresh like a crisp winter morning, very clean and perfect, and it hopes we have learned from last year. Take time on New Year’s Day to assess the last year, reflect on our wins and losses, and dream. Dream big and set and write down some big goals. Set goals that make you uncomforta

There are 8,760 hours in a year, and we spend roughly 2,000-3,000 of those at work. And as we all think about the New Year, new goals, and resolving some of our personal issues, how many of those hours each year are you devoting to self-improvement? Self-improvement is a very simple thing, it is simply the improvement of one’s knowledge, status, or character by one’s own efforts. There are 168 hours in a week, say we spend 8 hours sleeping a day, that leaves 112 hours of operational awake time each week. Part of those are at work, but there are a good many hours left each day to devote to self-improvement, even if it is just 15 minutes of reading. Our trouble comes in that we may get on t

Every day as we go through our daily routine, we will either have a phenomenal day, an average day, or a rotten day. Life comes to us in pieces and sometimes it falls to pieces - it’s like a toy, with instructions that say ‘some assembly required.’ Our instruction manual doesn’t come in a plastic baggy attached to us as we enter the world. But, there is a written set of instructions over 2000 years old that we can look to. Giving Him the Wheel It’s a stormy world out there, and we all need an expert pilot to help us navigate it. Who is your pilot? What is your assembly process? With all of my imperfections, vices, and trials and tribulations, I absolutely have to have an expert pilot. Someon

We often have many things we have done for years in business, at home, or at school. Some of those things we have done are tradition, and some are just because. On the family farm, at home, or at work, we have processes and procedures we do daily to accomplish our daily goals and tasks to keep things moving forward. I always say that we must humbly ask ourselves “why” we are doing any certain process or procedure, and if we can’t answer the “why”, with an answer beyond, “just because”, we need to be thinking about doing it a different way or not at all and looking at what else we could be doing. The other key reason we need to be asking ourselves “why”, is because the largest generation i