Emotional Intelligence
Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. My Story: Spotting the Gap (and Learning Not to Shame It) It’s easy, as high performers and leaders, to fool even ourselves. I convinced myself for years that my ambitions were “for God and for others”—but underneath, my core driver (significance) was always lurking: “Do I really…
The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Over years of personal consulting, I’ve witnessed that true apology—shaped by the Gospel—can restore trust, build resilience, and multiply influence far beyond what any achievement can offer. High performers, leaders, parents, and friends all face moments when a misstep breaks trust or connection. The way…
Responding, Not Reacting: Leading With Head and Heart The Daily CHEW™Chew on God’s Love. Live Transformed. Multiply Hope. Some days, leadership feels like dodging tennis balls: the demands keep flying, emotions run high, and it’s tempting to swing without thinking—reacting fast, but often missing what matters most. I’ve learned (sometimes the hard way) that the…
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” -Ernest Hemingway “Hey, thanks for the talk, that was really helpful.” How many times a week do you hear this from your friends? A lot? Not so often? I realized this week when a close friend said something similar that it’s not…
“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God’s. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.” -Eugene Peterson I am an extrovert through and through. I love people,…
“It’s easier to bleed than sweat.” -Flannery O’Connor I read a great article this week about the lottery and how this record breaking amount brings out all sorts of things in people…One thing the article mentioned was how you wouldn’t want to be that guy in your office that opted out of the group pool only to seem…
“You are wounded in relationships. You are healed in relationships.” -Dr. Jason Hayes My professor said this statement the other day in class as we were discussing how we experience brokenness in community. If I had it my way, community would only be about the good things: the ways I feel encouraged – the moments of fun…
“Community is only being created when [its members] have recognized that the greatness of man is to accept his insignificance, his human condition and his earth, and to thank God for having put in a finite body the seeds of eternity which are visible in small and daily gestures of love and forgiveness.” -Jean Vanier Have…
“The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.” -Henri Nouwen This past week, I’ve been thinking a lot about stories. I believe we are made for stories and we respond on a deeper level to stories than we would to straight facts and figures. The stories…
“As soon as we are alone,…inner chaos opens up in us. This chaos can be so disturbing and so confusing that we can hardly wait to get busy again…We often use the outer distractions to shield ourselves from the interior noises. This makes the discipline of solitude all the more important.” -Henri Nouwen This week if I…