I’m currently pouring through a mountain of replies I received when I asked over 75,000 leaders what they were struggling with right now. Can I just say there’s a lot of struggle? One of the key challenges is discouragement—discouragement that…
Let me guess. You feel like you really need to de-stress. This season has been unreal, and almost unbelievably trying—far different than any season you’ve led through before. Every leader I talk to is tired. Well, more than just tired.…
Almost every leader I know is under more stress than we’ve ever been at this point in leadership. How do you cope? A few years ago, I went through the most intense period of burnout in my life. It almost…
Christmas has always felt like a mixed blessing for me as a leader. For years, it hasn’t felt like a break. As a pastor, Christmas is our biggest outreach and largest services of the year. Realizing that this is the…
Almost every leader I talk to these days feels overwhelmed, and a growing number are struggling with burnout. I get it. The onslaught of information, requests, and demands on everyone’s time seems to be growing rapidly every year, and it’s…
So you’re busy. Welcome to the club. For too many of us, busy now means working 7 days a week. One leader approached me a while back and said the one thing he knew would change everything for him was…
So you just love email, right? Kidding. Of course, you don’t. Few people do. Of all the time-suckers that show up in modern work, email is near the top of most lists. If you tallied the amount of time you…
Ask any leader, they’ll tell you: it seems to be getting harder and harder to get anything accomplished at work. Let’s dial that back a notch: it’s getting harder and harder to get anything done anywhere. Why? Well, advancements in…
Ever notice your day seems to vaporize and you wonder what happened to all your best intentions? You’re ready to leave work but you barely even dented your to-do list. As a result, you’re going to have to try to…
Maybe you play this little game. Every Monday (or every first of the month or every new year) you say to yourself, “This will be different. I’m finally going to crush my to do list/get to the gym/be home with…