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BLOG: The Cost of Success

Blog leadership life & growth

This first week of 2018 has proven to be bursting with possibilities. How it will all pan out is still be determined, but it has presented Robert and I with valuable reflective conversation – primarily about the cost of “success.” There’s a verse that asks what it profits a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul. When we think about “losing our soul”, most people immediately take it to mean a spiritual death or a loss of a moral compass or ethics (kind of like “selling your… Read More

BLOG: A Passionate Existence

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Whatever choices you make in life, be ALL-IN, HOT or COLD, IN or OUT, FULLY INVESTED. Life is too precious to be lived lukewarm and time is too valuable to be spent with anything that only has half your effort. It’s not what you do that makes your existence average – it’s how much passion you have doing it. Don’t settle for an existence of mediocrity. If you are going to do something, do it. If you are going to commit to someone, commit. If you are going to live… Read More

BLOG: Elephants & Old People

Blog life & growth

I found this article (in comment and at bottom of this blog) to be so incredibly moving. I think in our society, the perspective of becoming “old” is viewed in one of two ways: move away and retire in peaceful bliss or be sent away until you leave this earth. Although the former option can seem appealing, both options have a general underlying misconception: once you’re old, your work is done. But that couldn’t be further from the truth and this article is such a beautiful illustration of that fact…. Read More

BLOG: Metaphysical Ponderings Elicited by the Tears of the Old Man Next to Me

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Sitting on an airplane. Me and my Sammy. There’s an old man sitting next to us. He looks down at Sammy without much of an expression then rests his head back again and closes his eyes. Then tears seep down his face and drop down his chin. He’s crying. And I don’t know why. I ask if he’s ok and he says he’s just tired. But I can’t help but wonder where those tears are coming from. What’s his story? Did he just lose the love of his life? Or… Read More

BLOG: What if your problem was actually your solution?

Blog hardships life & growth

For those that don’t already know, I worked as a professional actor for almost a decade before transitioning into a Producer. During my journey as an actor is when I went through the hardest emotional periods of my life. I felt I was conflicted and unsettled with a new emotional dilemma, rollercoaster or breakdown nearly everyday. Whether it was defending my career choice as legitimate for the 1000th time, thinking the job I just booked would finally “be it” (but then it wasn’t), questioning my life after being rejected yet… Read More

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BLOG: Don’t Get Comfortable Just Yet…

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“Stepping out of reluctance and into obedience will reveal purpose.” @KarenHarmon @propelwoman If God has called you to do something in this season, do it now. Not tomorrow, or next week or next year. Now. I’m guilty. I’m the anti-procrastinator by nature. However – I have procrastinated “until next week” on doing something I believe God wants me to do….and nearly a year later, it’s still left undone, sitting on my desk. Untouched. For me, it’s been a combination of insecurities of what people will think when I do it… Read More

BLOG: Facts that will change your life.

Blog hardships life & growth

Two families moved to the same small town. The first family drove into town and spoke with the attendant at the gas station. The family asked the attendant, “we just moved here, is this a good town to live in?” The attendant responded “well, tell me about the town you just moved out of.” The family gushed about their old town, “oh, we loved it….the summers were warm, the people never bothered each other and there was always something to do.” The attendant exclaimed, “oh, then you’ll love this town!”… Read More

BLOG: Been Criticized Lately?

Blog hardships leadership

I took some time last night to go through some old emails and purge the ones that aren’t relevant to my life anymore (yes, this is what I do for fun). For as long as emails existed, I’ve held on to the “extreme” emails – encouragement emails, praise emails…and yes, some very harsh emails as well. I like reading the encouraging emails every once in a blue moon because they remind me that someone out there thinks I’m being or doing something worthwhile…but I especially like reading the not-so-encouraging emails…. Read More

BLOG: I never wanted kids…

Blog hardships life & growth

In 2009, I wrote a long-winded note to Robert regarding my complete disdain for the thought of ever having to have children and the “death” of my dreams and life that children would bring. Part of that note read “I in no way desire that at all in any fiber of my being. I might could come to grips of having to have kids if only you would admit even half of how drastically our lives would go downhill after we have them.” Now, being two weeks away from Urijah’s… Read More

BLOG: Three Phases of Life

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Since leaving MySpace, it seems I’ve also left the world of blogging. But today, I felt like I wanted to share the insight from this morning. Hannah said it made no sense, but it made sense to me, I guess that’s important. 🙂 If Samson had obeyed God and followed through with God’s ultimate will for His life to become a Judge of Israel, then would it have been necessary for God to close Hannah’s womb so that she would reach a point of desperation and offer her first child,… Read More