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Progress, Not Perfection
This is the last one.
Seven weeks ago I told you that everybody already knows what to do, and that the failure point is never the path, it is the price. Then I spent six weeks naming my own half measures out loud, on...
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Go Make It Right
For five weeks we have been working on the inside. Willingness. The thing you are protecting. Telling yourself the truth. Humility. Surrender. All of it has been internal, and all of it has been leading here.
Today it...
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The Handoff
We have spent four weeks getting here. Willingness. Naming the fence. Honesty. Humility. All of it has been leading to one move, and it is the move everything else depends on.
Surrender.
But I have to be careful with...
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Humility Is Not Self-Hatred
Most of us were handed a broken definition of humility. We were taught that to be humble means to think you are small. To shrink. To run yourself down and call it godliness. And a lot of people walked away from faith...
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Look in the Mirror and Tell the Truth
Once you know what you are protecting, there is only one way through it. Honesty. The real kind. The kind where you look in the mirror and tell the truth about what is actually there.
But I have to be careful here,...
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The Thing You Are Protecting
Last week I told you I know what to do and I am not doing it. This week I want to go underneath that and ask why.
Because the half measure is never random. You are not failing at willingness across the board. You are...
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Everybody Knows What to Do
I have not recorded a podcast in over a month. I am struggling with my eating again, and the Diet Coke thing is back. I moved to a new city seven months ago and I still have not found a group or a coach of my own,...
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The Commissioning
This is the finale. And it is the most personal thing I have ever recorded.
A while back I sat down and wrote a letter to my son David. Not a letter catching him up on life. Not a funny story about my grandson Remy....
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Wash some feet
We have leadership backwards. We picture the guy at the head of the table. The boss. The one barking orders and making the calls. The man everyone serves.
Then there is Jesus, on the night before he died, getting down...
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Who Will You Bleed For?
When men hear the word protection, they picture the wrong thing. They picture the guy who will throw a punch for his family. The action-movie version. The "nobody messes with mine" version. And sure, that has its...
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It's Not Your Fault. But It Is Your Problem.
I teach something called radical responsibility. It is the thing that separates men who change from men who stay stuck. And it starts with understanding the difference between blame and ownership.
Blame says "this is...
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You Are Enough. Stop Trying to Earn It.
I built my entire identity on output. How many couples I helped. How many books I wrote. How many stages I stood on. And when all of that got taken away, I had nothing left. Because I had built my sense of self on...
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