Become a better leader by adopting lessons learned from one of the all-time greatest battles of will. — A Leader Like No Other, Yet Still Relatable Of all the leaders who have been born among mankind, none have left a legacy as powerful as the legacy of Jesus of Nazareth. Not only do non-Christians, including Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and others, acknowledge Jesus as a prophet, rabbi, teacher, guru, buddha, philosopher, or charismatic influencer, but even the…

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Truth About Guilt and Forgiveness — Guilt, the GBU Let’s talk about Guilt — the good, the bad, and the ugly. I have often said there are two primary motivating forces in people: fear and love. Guilt is an extremely powerful, albeit secondary, motivator because it combines both fear and love in way that is unique and, often, terrible. …

If you’re impatient, skip to the second paragraph. I will be 40 in August. I’m not particularly tall or short. I’m height-weight proportional, with a healthy BMI score. My hair is an unexciting shade of brown, peppered with a little gray, but I don’t suffer from male pattern baldness. While…

There are certain people, places, things, and ideas in each person’s life that tend to hurt them the closer they are to them. Such things are, figuratively speaking, emotional cacti. Maybe it’s the parent who uses guilt to try to manipulate or motivate. Maybe it’s the emotionally unavailable or distant…

Sometimes, an inch apart from one we love or desire feels like all the space between the stars. Emotional maturity is beneficial, despite its tendency to throw into stark relief our isolation from others, without doing much to draw us closer to them. Having the maturity to see how close…

Reason and judgment have an important role to play in human life. Nevertheless, we can take too far the use of even our most valuable tools. When we focus on one thing enough to form an opinion about it, we often narrow the scope of our inner vision to such…

The feeling or belief that your circumstances are inevitable or unchangeable, or that you are on a path from which there is no exit, is an illusion. Nothing is absolute. Everything changes. People, too, are constantly changing. You are not the same person you were seven years ago. Physically, many…

Relationships often fall apart because we simply neglect them. Sometimes we push away from other people. Other times we just drift apart, and the inertia of life carries us away from others. Neglect of a relationship might be intentional and conscious. We might choose to do that for a specific…

Recently, I suffered severe emotional trauma caused by the breakdown of a relationship. I have been making every possible effort, despite great resistance, to repair that relationship and reconcile with the other person. The traumatic breakdown of this relationship, and the comprehensive, holistic approach I have taken to personal growth…