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Baby Aedán turns three today. My good friend, David, turns forty. Separated by thirty seven years they appear so very different today. In God's time they are NOT. "Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger:well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to … Continue reading Whose…

"Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody. Proabably all you think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap … Continue reading Build strength and humility…

One of my clients is building a company. They're on a mission to change the industry they're in for the better. I believe they'll do it. They're in startup mode right now and growing quickly with lots of demand for their service. Is it time to bring in more people and scale, they wanted to … Continue reading Survive then scale

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different the saints." C.S. Lewis Taken from Mere Christianity Every team has saboteurs. It's an inside job. As leaders and teammates facing tyrants within our own teams, we will be tweaked (more often than you want to admit). Fact.  What to do? Give … Continue reading Justice and grace…

Early in a journey of mastery everything tends to be cookie cutter, plug and play. You're learning a new system and skillset so that means a lot of learning by rote and copying. Truth is, with any skill endeavor you must learn the basic plays before you can learn to riff and create. As you … Continue reading Constraint breeds creativity

"In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with … Continue reading Truth…

Rarely is "make things easier" the right answer. "Make things simpler" can be. "Make things more accessible" sometimes works as well. But the inclination to make things easier can quickly lead down a dangerous path. The hard, I believe, is what makes things great. Or at the very least, great things can only be found … Continue reading Face the hard

Epictetus was a stoic stud back in the day. Didn’t write a book but taught so well his students wrote one about him. According to his students writing, Epictetus, taught him two words to internalize. Persist and resist. Without perseverance we stop short. Without resisting what we know we ought, we overindulge and get fat … Continue reading Epictetus…