CHEW Practice

The Delegate Button You Keep Not Pressing Has a SALVES Driver Underneath It

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-02 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You know you should delegate. Every productivity book says so. Your assistant has asked what she can take off your plate — again — and you said the same thing you said last week: “I’ve got it.” But you do not have it.…

The Thank You That Landed Harder Than You Expected

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-02 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals Someone said something deeply kind to you this week — and instead of receiving it, your chest tightened. You smiled, you thanked them, you redirected the credit. But underneath the composure, something heavier than gratitude was moving. I know because it happened to…

You Are Still the One God Chose for This Week’s Assignment

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-05-02 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals It is Monday morning and the weekend’s clarity is already fading. The conviction you carried out of Sunday worship — that God is faithful, that He is working, that you are His — feels thinner with every glance at the calendar. The week…

The God Whose Mothering Love Reaches What No Mother Could

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-26 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals A God Who Comforts Where No One Else Can Reach There is a God who does not flinch at the complexity of this day. He sees the mother being celebrated at brunch and the ache she carries that no one at the table…

The Leader Everyone Trusts — and the Seven Practices That Built It

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals When Competence Is Not Enough You are competent. Your team knows it. Your clients know it. Your résumé proves it. And yet — if you are honest — there are rooms where your competence is respected but your person is not fully trusted.…

I Gave Away Seven Years of Furniture — and Discovered a Kind of Generosity I Had Been Missing

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals The move is complete. I downsized my office this week, and because the new space does not need a waiting room, a second office, or a food area tucked into a storage closet, I had furniture, books, and supplies to give away —…

The Argument That Almost Split the C-Suite — and the Story That Saved It

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals I was being flown in to a mid-sized logistics company in the Midwest to train the C-suite on how Myers-Briggs could set them and their direct reports up for success. I had put significant work into this training — the Chief Sales Officer…

The Task You Keep Moving to Tomorrow Is Trying to Tell You Something

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals There is a task on your list that has migrated from Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday — and it is about to migrate again. You are not avoiding it because you are undisciplined. You are avoiding it because something underneath it is unresolved,…

The Mood You’re Carrying Into That Next Room Can Change in Three Seconds

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are between meetings. The last one left a residue — tension in your shoulders, a low-grade frustration you have not named, a mood that is about to walk into the next room with you and affect every person in it. You know…

The Number on the Screen Is Not the Number That Defines You

By Ryan Bailey / 2026-04-25 /

The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals It is 6am and the first thing your eyes land on is a number — unread emails, a revenue figure, a project count, a Slack badge. Before you have taken a single bite of breakfast, that number has already told you a story…