Standing Up

Yesterday I shared my first experience doing stand-up. I went on to do open mic nights, then got hired by a “real” show in a casino. Then our show was thrown out of the casino for being to obscene. I mentioned that on this blog and quickly received an e-mail from a “concerned mother” with…

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I Can Only Love You

When I do seminars on my book Guerrilla Lovers, I encourage people to pray, “Jesus, give me your heart for this person” every time they interact with anyone. So I loved this quote I read from Dorothy Day. She was the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and wrote this in her diary about why…

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Commercial Blocks

I only watch TV shows I recorded on my DVR, so I’m constantly fast-forwarding through commercials, and I use the 30 second advance button. Do you realize that there will be four minute commercial blocks early in a show, but six (and sometimes eight) minute blocks of commercials later in a show?  Why?  Because they…

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Strategic Planning II

Yesterday I shared kind of the foundation for strategic planning.  I think of this in terms of church, but it’s the same process for anything – a business, your life, personal finances, or your marriage.  I shared about needing to first know your core values, mission, and vision.  Only then can you really ask the…

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Strategic Planning I

You know how there are some things that are natural strengths, and others you have to develop and fight to learn and do well?  Strategic planning is not a natural strength of mine, but it’s important – personally (to mature it really helps to have a strategic plan), in church planting (to establish a healthy…

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