What Are Your ‘Wants’?
Storytelling and screenwriting begin with the question “Who are they and what do they want?” The main character has to want something if it’s going to be an interesting story. For it to be an…
Six Months In . . . Just Like That
Check your calendar. The 4th of July was yesterday. June 30th has come and gone. The first six months of 2018 are over. Just like that. A couple years ago, I read an interesting article…
When You Lose Your Belief
There’s a finite amount of belief in a person. You can’t create more belief. You can move your belief around, believe more of one thing and less of another, but each human has a unique…
Intimacy with God
Relational intimacy grows in direct proportion to the amount and quality of time we spend with another person. This applies to our friends, our spouses, our kids, even to God. If we spend unhurried time…
Gratitude: The Only Sure Cure for Anxiety
“The American holiday of Thanksgiving traces its roots all the way back to 1621, when colonists held a harvest feast with local natives. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln declared an official Thanksgiving day in late November….
What Men Want
I’m going to go way out on a limb and tell you what you want. If you’re a married man with kids, these three things are ‘it’ . . . Emotional connection with your wife…
Too Much of a Good Thing
In his book, Future Shock, noted futurologist Alvin Toffler coined the term ‘overchoice.’ He described people who experience overchoice as not suffering from “an absence of choice but from a paralyzing surfeit of it.” …
Speaking of Jesus
A treadmill . . . a rowing machine . . . an elliptical . . . the piece of exercise equipment doesn’t really matter. With each one, no matter how hard you work, when you…
Slowing the Game Down
I watch no more than seven hockey games a year . . . the Stanley Cup Finals. The effort, quickness and passion on display in such a high stakes environment . . . it’s captivating….
Scarcity Mentality
Your neighbor drives up in a new car and shortly after you catch yourself staring down at the 140,000 miles on your odometer and then you get a whiff of your kids’ sports gear in…
