Hypeless?

With a lot of conferences there are all kinds of incentives to register, and early bird specials, and sign-up now and get a free kidney kind of deals.  And I understand all that, and I’m not knocking it.  Part of it is that you want your conference to have as many people as possible, so…

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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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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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What’s Success For You?

Saturday I got to spend time with one of my favorite people, Kevin Colon, who happens to be a church planter. He told me the first question he asks every church planter is, “What are you after? What’s success for you?” That is the question. Not just for church planters, it could be posed to…

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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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