A Word for Keeping Your Feelings to Yourself and What It Costs
What do you call it when a man keeps his feelings to himself? English answers fast and answers in layers. The thesaurus entry for keeping a…
What is the question nobody at your table will ask out loud?
Writing on faith, finance, and focus. Some of it is practical, some of it is uncomfortable, and none of it is written by somebody who studies this from a distance.
Two Benefits of Knowing Your Coworkers’ Personalities
If you ran into this question on a workplace quiz, an onboarding module, or a class assignment, you were probably handed four options and told that…
Give Them the Whole Thing
Christ's own disciples tried to keep children away from Him, and the text says He was indignant about it. What that settles about the gospel you hand your household, and who is actually responsible for what your children are being taught.
The Account Nobody Sends You a Statement For
You do not lack information. You are carrying, in your pocket, right now, access to more practical knowledge than every king who ever lived combined. You…
The Sequence Is Backward
There is a diagram you have seen. Three circles. What you love. What you are good at. What people will pay for. Find the middle, get…
Deep Work in a House With Children In It
Most productivity advice is written for people who live alone. Four hours of uninterrupted focus in a silent room is a wonderful concept. It is also…
The Stage Nobody Survives
Say you get through the first part. Somebody paid you. Then somebody else did. Money is coming in irregularly and you are thrilled and terrified in…
Made in Order to Make
Everything you build with your hands has an expiration date and most of them expire sooner than you think. The company gets sold, or absorbed, or…
You Were Not Made to Be Manageable
There was a man at the airport named Dale who ran the fuel farm. Dale knew more about that operation than anybody who has ever worked…
The Competence Gap Is Real
Now I want to be considerably more specific, because there is a version of that argument that becomes an excuse, and I have watched men use…
Managed Men
Nobody is going to hand you room. I want to say that plainly and then spend a chapter on why, because most men are operating on…
The Conversation That Breaks the Wall
You wrote it down. It went in the column marked real, the one I told you not to touch yet. Two, maybe three items, and you…