Tag Archives: Relationships

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How To Make Your Work Seem Less Like Work

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I don’t know where the following quote originated, but I’ve heard it in several places over the years:                 If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. The idea is that it’s much better to do work that you love. Your passion for your work will make what you […]

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Is Your Work Producing The Life You Want Most?

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Children are wonderful. With my daughter starting her senior year of high school, I’ve been even more aware of how valuable she is and our moments together are. The church is quick to praise the benefits of family as a hub of growth and character development, and they are right to do so. Families are […]

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How To Receive The Advice You Desperately Need

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As I have written often in this blog, communication is the lifeblood of relationships. That statement is not a new idea, but we often live as if we don’t believe it. Communication takes work. It’s a skill that has to be practiced and maintained. Samuel Johnson wrote about one component of good communication:                 “Advice […]

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Are Good Activities Damaging Your Family?

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Great families don’t just happen. They require thought and effort. The same is true of any grouping of people. You can have great athletes and not have a great team. Companies can hire the best and the brightest and still go bankrupt. Families can be composed of great fathers, mothers, and children and still not […]

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3 Times That Saying Yes Will Damage Your Family

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We live in a world of yes. We have more options and more freedom than at any time in the history of the world. Thanks to the ease and relatively low cost of travel as well as the all encompassing reach of the internet, we can have experiences that would have seemed impossible for our […]

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Making The Trades That Make Life Great

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When I was child I was told, “you can do whatever you set your mind to”. What liars those people turned out to be! Yes, you can do lots of things in life if you are willing to work for it. The problem is that you can’t do everything you want in life, at least […]

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How To Balance Contentment And Ambition

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Extremes are almost never good. We all are driven to extremes at times. We hate some things and love others. We eat at the best restaurants on the planet or the absolute worst dumps around. Our trips to the beach are the best experiences of our lives and our setbacks are catastrophes that make the […]

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Shame: The Toxic Alternative To Guilt

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Few things have the power to erode confidence and halt growth the way shame does. And few things destroy the credibility of leaders or of churches than the use of shame to motivate or control people. Guilt is a God-given and healthy way of thinking and feeling at times. Guilt is what we feel when […]

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How To Live With And Enjoy The Extroverts In Your Life

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Having healthy relationships means learning to relate to lots of different kinds of people. This can be tough sometimes, because most of us generally assume that the things that work for me will work when relating to others. That’s not always the case. In fact, more times than not we are drawn to people who […]