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Category: Ideas

  • Just Write, Just Blog

    First of all, thank you for reading this.  I have enjoyed writing, and I appreciate you reading my ideas as I try to work some of them out – so thank you. Second, I have talked to some of you this week about starting a blog.  You know who you…

  • Another Update on Kiva

    So I became a lender a few months ago.  I posted about Kiva here and here.  If you want to check out my profile on Kiva and the people that I have lent to check out my profile – I guess it’s called a Lender Page.  Anyway, the entrepreneurs that…

  • Programming Your Brain

    There is now technology that allows you to “fly” into your brain and see in real time the activity of the brain (click to watch the video).  You can control your brain.  You can control your brain.  You will be able to take a look at all of the aspects…

  • My New Niece Hazel Grace

    A few days ago, I wrote about watching my brother in law falling in love with his new daughter.  Here are a few pictures of her.  Tell me that it’s not that hard to fall in love with her. This one I call Hazel Face.  I think I took this…

  • Speaking at a Camp

    I have a speaking engagement up near Tahoe I think in January.  The theme for the camp is Inside Out.  Here’s the line from the e mail that I got: “Basically, how what you’re made of on the inside in relation to Christ will be equal to what is exhibited…

  • Personal Branding = Functional Self

    I just realized why I have enjoyed reading about personal branding so much.  I’ve been doing some reading on it – mostly for a course that I’m working on.  I have read books about it.  I’ve read blogs about it.  I’ve walked through a branding exercise and just recently talked…

  • Fear and Faith

    There is a relationship between fear and faith.  If you have fear, you don’t have faith and interestingly enough, if you have faith, there is no fear. Fear leads to paralysis.  Fear leads to inactivity.  Fear leads to sitting around and not taking a chance because of the fear of…

  • LL14: When the Followers Lead

    It is much easier to lead when the followers are leading.  I mean, if you were the king or a micro-managing maniac, you would want to be the only person in control – and you noticed that I said control and not command – for an explanation of that, please…

  • Falling in Love

    Have you ever seen someone fall in love?  I mean have you ever experienced someone really fall in love?  I have experienced a version of it that I have never experienced before – falling in love like I have never seen in my life.  Right before my eyes – it…

  • Update on LL13

    Contingency Theory – is the official name for “Leadership is Situational.”  I didn’t know that when I wrote Leadership Lesson 13, but like I said in the post, these are the leadership lessons that I’m learning. You can find a pretty good summary of the Contingency Theory by clicking on…

  • LL13: Leadership is Situational

    I read this in a book today.  Leadership is situational, and every situation is different.  Because every situation is different and unique, the leadership required for each of those situations will be unique as well.  The principles may be the same.  The theories will work in any situation, but each…

  • Unanswered Prayer

    Unanswered prayer – is there such a thing?  I have been meditating on it all day.  I recently read some writing of a friend and he was giving his thoughts on Psalm 77.  His reflections were powerful and he had asked some great questions.  As I reread through the chapter…