Tuesday
Most executives treat August like a waiting room. The inbox thins out, half the leadership team is somewhere with a pool, and the whole month gets filed under “slower” — which quietly becomes shorthand for “less important,” a stretch to survive until September’s real momentum kicks back in. A regional VP I worked with called…
You’ve said the words “I’m still praying about it” more than once this year — in a meeting, in a text to a business partner, in a conversation with your board. Some of those times it was true prayer, wrestled through honestly before God. Other times, if you’re willing to admit it, it was a…
Daniel’s calendar had back-to-back meetings until 6pm — a board update, two client calls, a hiring debrief he’d been dreading all week. Somewhere between the first and second, in a 45-second gap he almost gave to his inbox instead, he typed one sentence to his wife and hit send before he could second-guess it. It…
Stephanie handed the vendor renegotiation to her newest manager Friday afternoon with a one-line email: “This is yours now — good luck.” By Tuesday morning, the manager still hadn’t opened the file, and it wasn’t laziness. He had no idea what authority he actually had, what had already been tried with this vendor, or whether…
Marcus runs a nine-person accounting practice, and by 7 AM he’s already scanned five client email threads and glanced at yesterday’s invoicing report, filing both away without a second thought. This morning he opened his Bible app with the same reflex — eyes moving fast, hunting for the one line worth remembering — and got…
You had prayed about it. You had told your wife you were trusting God with the outcome. Then the meeting started and your grip on the outcome told a different story. Proverbs 3:26 names it. God holds what you grip.
Dominating a meeting is not authority. It is anxiety in a suit. There is another mind available to you.
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals The first question you open a meeting with is a confession — of who you actually trust with the outcome. “Where are we on the numbers?” That is a control question. “What is the team stuck on?” That is a fear question. “Who…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals You read Scripture for the takeaway. Career trained you to do it. The Word will not be skimmed. The gap is not knowledge. The gap is reception. You can quote the verse, cite the version, and feel nothing below the neck. “So shall…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are seated at the kitchen island Tuesday evening with your spouse, the dishes cleared, and the conversation you actually need to have is still not happening. One of you carries the numbers. One of you carries the worry. Neither of you has…