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March 22, 2024
A Story of Becoming: Where Marketing Must Start
For me, the word marketing has long been associated with a medley of angst, vexation, and exacerbation. Starting my professional journey as a physician, I just wanted to do a good job. I did not want to concern myself with creating ads, billboards, and flaunting my successes on social media. But my view of marketing […]
March 21, 2024
Dreaming: The Best Place to Start
One of the more peculiar habits I have, which I learned from a mentor, is to observe dedicated thinking time. Just as it was strange to me when I first heard the concept, it is strange to most when I tell them about it. What is thinking time? A scheduled time, not rushed, in which […]
March 20, 2024
Reframing Our Thoughts: Cultivating Excitement in Daily Life
A few months ago I went to the Dominican Republic (DR) with a ministry I serve with. When we boarded the transportation bus, the leader in charge of the DR arm of the ministry kept asking everyone, “Are you excited?” She seemed excited. She frequently demanded a response from us. When we returned to the […]
March 19, 2024
The Importance of Balancing Strategy and Adaptability
For many years, a close friend and business advisor told me that I must have a strategic roadmap, a five to ten year plan, but I resisted. Like many leaders with an entrepreneurial bent, I enjoy the freedom of the open road. I am always looking for new opportunities. Once I understood all the planning […]
March 18, 2024
Why Was I Created?
Why was I born? Why did God create me? And to do what? When we ask these questions because we seek an answer in the form of a profession or a list of tasks from God, we err. Why were we born? We were born to be united with God. Full stop. From that unity […]
March 15, 2024
The Fastest Way to Grow
The fastest way to grow is in partnership. When I first heard this principle, I had an immediate revolt to the idea. Still, I kept thinking about it because I highly respect the person who said it. A few years later, after thinking and observing, I am now a believer. Initially I wondered, Aren’t partners […]
March 14, 2024
Start Small, Start Soon
The following four words are a powerful entrepreneurial principle: start small, start soon. If you follow them, you will accomplish much in life. Many never start. They think, dream, and pontificate, but never pull the trigger. If you are thinking of creating a new ministry, a new business, a new business line, a new service—then […]
March 13, 2024
Are You Managing Your Tasks, or Are They Managing You?
My wife Joanne and I got into raising chickens. A close friend who does the same told me how he bought some chicks to incorporate into his chicken flock. His intention was to add fun to his family. But as he continued, he realized how a small decision to manage more chicks ultimately started managing […]
March 12, 2024
Advantages to Getting Your Masters After 40
If you have been thinking about going back to school, particularly for some time, I recommend getting online to see what your options are and consider how you could successfully integrate your education into your current stage in life. Let me share my after-40 education journey with you. In 2006, I finished my MD residency […]
March 11, 2024
The Intersection of Entrepreneurship and Christian Leadership
For many years, I saw the traits of entrepreneurship as worldly because I believed that the end goal of an entrepreneur was to turn a profit by fulfilling humans’ carnal greed for more. Certainly, this conflicts with a Christian worldview. Today however, I understand entrepreneurial traits are essential for the Christian leader, in business, ministry, […]
March 8, 2024
Three Wrecking Balls That Impact Unity
I was born at home in Beirut, Lebanon in 1976 because war was raging on the first day of my life. It was the beginning of a 15-year civil war that killed about 6% of the Lebanese population. To say Lebanon was divided would be an understatement. The country was ripped apart by regional geopolitical […]
March 7, 2024
Real Reasons Unity is a Must
In yesterday’s article, I encouraged you to rate the level of unity in different spheres of your life, and that is the first step. Before you can devote yourself to maximum unity in any area of importance, you must be willing to do the hard work of any leader to create and protect unity. Below, […]
I mentor Christian leaders and entrepreneurs.