Take this opportunity to invest in personal growth and the lives of those around you. It’s spring. It really is! The highs and lows of March are fading, and now you’re feeling it — rebirth. Everything is soon going to spring into bloom. Those cute little purple flowers that always defy the snow still left...
It has its ups and down, but at the end of each day is another chance to win. 2016 was the worst year on record for the Minnesota Twins. They had just come off of a winning season and had great expectations. But the only thing they were good at that year was losing. Consider...
If March Madness seems more like a reflection of life's craziness than a basketball tournament. It’s not that you’re going crazy exactly, it’s just that you’ve picked up dog poop more times than you can count, reheated leftovers for dinner one too many times, and found yourself sniffing coconut suntan oil in the aisle of...
It’s easy to come into March is if you’ve just slid down a chute, that you unwittingly got in just before Thanksgiving, and didn’t realize would keep you in its confines for the next few months. Holidays can be a wonderful and less-wonderful sort of stress. January is a great time to organize, but even that can...
It’s 2018 and time for the Winter Olympics. The Olympics boast a variety of sports with strong competitors. These athletes have trained for years to get where they are, to be as strong as they are, to be healthy and adept in their field. These athletes all have something in common. Coaches. Winning teams, and...
You started the new year off right. You’re rockin’ your resolutions and becoming a better version of yourself. You’ve created better habits and given up bad ones. Change looks good on you. The great thing about change is that it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Change starts personally and is refined relationally. Better relationships begin...
Any parent can tell you that summertime can be fun, memorable, tiring and overwhelming…all at the same time. We’re talking about nearly three months of open-ended days with nothing to fill our kids’ time but us…and our event calendars. How do you keep your kids engaged and active while not depleting your own energy and...
If people knew what marriage was like, no one would get married. If they knew what it could be, no one would get divorced.
But no one knows what it’s like until they’re in it. It’s like parenting. How many times have you gotten parenting advice from someone with either no children or with one perfect child? But once you’re in it…up to your neck in real life…that is when you know what it’s like.
Any of us who are honest will admit that we’ve been there before: That moment in marriage where you are convinced that this person you’ve decided to spend your life with will never understand you…and probably doesn’t want to.
My ability to fight is impressive. It was never a skill that I meant to develop. But I did. In my more uninhibited days, when I let go of my restraints in an argument, I could be terribly condescending. I’d say what needed to be said and do what needed to be done to end the argument. To win. If I’m not careful, and if I ignore the lessons that life and maturity have given me, I can go back to that same venomous tactic pretty easily.