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Developing Poise: Keeping Your Cool When Things Get Hot

"Can you take a reprimand without blowing up? Can you take a turndown without being visibly discouraged? Can you laugh with the others when the joke is on you? Can you keep your spirits up when things go wrong? Can you keep cool in emergencies?  The natural leader answers all these with a confident Yes." - Donald A. Laird (quoted in "The 5 T's of Mastering the Art of Poise")
April 25, 2017
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Scott

How to Really Leverage the 5 Hour Rule

"Over the past year, I've explored the personal histories of many widely admired business leaders... despite being extremely busy, [they] have set aside at least an hour a day (or five hours a week) over their entire career for "deliberate practice"... I call this phenomenon the five-hour rule." - Michael Simmons, co-founder of Empact, with Ian Chew and Shizuka Ebata
April 14, 2017
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Scott

Relieving “Head Knowledge” Before Your Head Pops!

"How do we go from the instruction of Proverbs 3:5, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding,” to the personal affirmation of the writer of Psalms 56:3–4, “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid”? In other words, how do we go from head knowledge to heart application?" - Josh Squires
February 18, 2017
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Scott

In Defense of Coffee’s Goodness

"Coffee is serious business. We Americans drink about 400 million cups of it per day and spend several billion dollars on it each year.  It's the most popular drug on earth, and certainly the most socially acceptable... Yet it’s also considered to be a vice, one of those substances that “everyone knows” is bad for you.  Is it?" - Mark Sisson
November 22, 2016
In Defense of Coffee’s Goodness
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Scott

Trump or Hilary or Does it Matter?

"The Early Church thrived in the midst of a hostile non-Christian world—not because they were more numerous or more powerful, but because they were both radically distinct and culturally relevant." - Ed Stetzer
November 8, 2016
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Scott

Slowing Down: The Hurried Life is No Way to Live

"If we compare our pace to the pace of Jesus’s life, there aren’t many similarities. Jesus was never rushed. He wasn’t overwhelmed by life, even though He had an enormous mission to complete in a very short period of time... Culture’s obsession with busyness and hurriedness isn’t just a scheduling problem. It’s a heart problem.” - Frank Powell
October 25, 2016
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