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Purpose

The Youngest Guy I Know

My step-dad, Jack McCoy, turns 85 this May. He is the youngest guy I know. Why? Because he knows how to live life to its fullest. In the last few years, Jack married my mom, and travelled to Hawaii, Ireland, England, and France. He serves in two churches, and in the leadership of one of […]

Leadership

Letters from My Father

My father died 10 years ago this week. Thirteen years ago, he began sending me weekly letters. I never read them while he was alive. I saved them all in a file for a later day. Then in the ten years that followed his death, I could not bring myself to open that file of […]

Personal Development, Purpose

Make Today COUNT!

Many diaries from famous expeditions list events as they happened each day ? for example: Day 1😕 Arrived at base camp. Day 2: ?Climbed to 20,000 feet? Day 9:? Reached summit! Each day matters greatly!? Each day counts! This is Day 13,640 for me ? on earth?(I am 37 years old, 4 months, and 2 […]

Purpose

My Patient with an Artificial Heart

I met him about 6 months ago.? He is 25, 6?2?, Caucasian. ?He holds a machine in his pocket about three times the size of a remote control.? Without it, his heart would stop. ?Literally. As he walks into my office, he is always mildly sweating because his heart struggles to pump and his adrenal […]

Leadership

Help Your People Succeed In Life

Great leaders are concerned with helping their people succeed in life more than their success as employees. This is a simple principle yet one of the most powerful and difficult to live by. I always hear players of legendary sports coaches say things such as, ?Our coach cared about us as people more than just […]