This is the first year that you’ll see it: the countdown clock for official timeouts at the OU football games. For years we just sat and watched the official stand out on the field with his hand held in the air until it was time to resume play. Not a big deal but sometimes it
Year: 2019
The path of least resistance is to just keep doing what we’ve been doing. It’s known. It’s safe. But does it actually lead to better results, more impact, or something greater? I was at the dentist getting my teeth cleaned and it’s always been funny how during the process there are times that I’m asked
Most of the time we are in motion towards somewhere. Building to something. It’s going to be epic and grand. One day. When we finally learn all the lessons, make all the right decisions, meet all the right people, and check off all the boxes… But then there are moments when it’s almost like your
And… just like that I crossed the one year threshold of writing this thing. It’s been a really good outlet and a way for me to practice contributing. As someone who enjoys speaking, the act of writing has been especially challenging to communicate more with less. I can obsesses about getting the system perfect because
“Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life.” – Dallas Willard Just read an excerpt from John Mark Comer’s book to be released in October later this year. Powerful stuff. The title alone says it all: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. In a culture that wears busyness as a badge of honor and where
We’ve done a pretty lousy job of performing delegation as it was intended to be done. Quit demoting people. When we delegate, we entrust responsibility to another person. But what really happens: dumping a bunch of junk work on someone else because we’re tired of doing it, don’t want to do it, or we’ve simply
Pick one of these. Multitasking is a myth. We either consume, contribute or contemplate. In order to effectively do one, we have to effectively not do the others. I’m taking a short break from knowledge consumption in order to more effectively contemplate and contribute. This means no more listening to podcasts, reading blogs, checking social
Eugene Peterson wrote “Listening is not only a function of biological acoustics; it is a spiritual skill of the soul.” I’m prone to thinking that spiritual listening will just “happen” to me… however, the idea that it might be a skill of the soul is so invitational. It’s inviting us into the chance to dig
Over the 4th of July holiday we spent some time with family doing fireworks, eating food and a lot of swimming. I noticed something attached to the side of the pool: an automatic water level sensor. Maybe these are super common but I had never seen one before. Essentially the sensor has a floating device
The easy way is backward. The illusionary way is around. Going over means also dealing with coming down. The best way is through. It can seem impossible, but so was everything before it was done.
