Being thrust into a leadership position can feel like drinking from a full-throttle firehose! However, there is a way to turn the pressure down, and that comes through studying and learning well. Practicing that discipline allows the leader to transform his or her leadership style, cultivate purpose, become more authentic, and bring life into an individual or an organization.

The Shadow only wants you to see the never-ending pain before you, but the truth, however, is the same. After some time and some post-traumatic growth, we both can say, "Glad that light at the end of the tunnel wasn't a train!"

At 23, I had love figured out! As an English and German major in college, I had read the greats--Shakespeare, Goethe, Lord Byron, Fried, the Brownings, and so on .... As a Christian, I had read all the Bible said about love. I was steeped in the knowledge of love. My fiancée and I were in love and that was all we needed to make things work. Right! Right? Um ....

Adulation and adoration are THE great temptations for every leader (and follower). We begin to believe our own press and perseverate on our strengths and talents. This tunnel vision induces self-aggrandizement, causing leaders to lose focus on their values, their morals, and their ethics and, lemming-like, to follow that path off the cliff of self . . . .

Five tools to avoid emotional flooding and manipulation

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions--Niccolo Machiavelli

The faithful Christian leader lives out of identity in Christ and points the flock to do the same.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood (Ralph Waldo Emerson). I love to read. There's something about...

Well, who are you? (Who are you? Who, who, who, who?) I really wanna know (who are you? Who, who, who, who?) Tell me, who are you? (Who...

The journey was long, and you are weary deep down in your bones. Your clothes are worn and your body scarred. You have struggled ....

Clouds It's amazing the impact clouds have on the psyche! White and puffy, they instantly trigger my imagination as I see "lions and...