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Category: Ideas

  • Gotta Make Time

    It doesn’t matter how easy it is to update my blog.  I have a netbook – that I’m typing on now.  There’s free internet connection everywhere.  I have the ability and the hardware needed to update my blog.  I even have a ton of ideas, but the rhythm of vacation…

  • My Job and Living Like Jesus

    I updated my Facebook status today with the fact that I just “finished the year of living like Jesus,” and I wasn’t thinking about the fact that it’s the end of the year/decade.  So it looked like I had done so this past year, but what I meant was that…

  • The Year of Living Like Jesus by Ed Dobson

    I just finished the book – The Year of Living Like Jesus by Ed Dobson.  You should check out his website – http://www.livingjesusly.com to check it out.  Better yet, you should just go out and buy the book.  It didn’t take me that long to read it, and I’ve already…

  • Focus

    It’s the end of the decade (well, I guess it depends on when you think the decade began).  Many people will think about the past year and wonder what could have been.  Many will make plans for the next year – without having wondered about what could have been.  There…

  • Fruit Takes Time

    It’s such a simple idea, but fruit takes time.  I know that it’s easy for me to talk about the fruit of my labor, but fruit takes time.  There’s no such thing as instant fruit.  True fruit – takes time to create and then grow. I was reading Ed’s book…

  • Thankful For My Limbs

    I was hanging out with my brother today.  He just got back from Afghanistan where he worked in a hospital in the OR.  He told us a ton of stories today-stories that you just need to here first hand from someone that experienced them. He told us one story today…

  • Listening in Context

    I am listening through the Gospels.  I am not setting a time limit – Ed did in his book – I’m just going to listen to the gospel.  I’m going to try and do it once a week, but I started on a week that I’m not working.  It’s easy…

  • Living Jesusly

    I am reading Ed Dobson’s book – The Year of Living Like Jesus.  I’m about half-way through it.  It’s a great book asking some great questions.  Ed spoke at our Bible Conference at San Diego Christian College a few years ago.  If you check out his website, he’s wearing a…

  • Intangible Value

    I was listening to a talk from an advertising man, and he talked about intangible value as being more important than the price you pay for a good or service – that sometimes you can have the intangibe value of something be worth more than the intrinsic value of that…

  • Breaking News

    I was watching a commercial about being able to watch the news on your phone as it breaks.  It’s very fascinating that you can first of all  watch tv on your phone, but then also watch it as it breaks. Well, you can get breaking news, but you can’t watch…

  • Asking Questions

    Sometimes it has to start with asking the right questions.  I guess not asking any questions is the worse possible scenario, but asking questions is a pretty great skill.  Asking the right questions, is even better.  Being able to suspend judgement until you got it all figured out – now,…

  • Personality and Personal Brand

    I was reading a blog post about this.  There has been a ton of stuff written about your personal brand and developing one.  The post that I was reading was talking about the limits of a personal brand – that although everyone has one, that this person didn’t want to…