This Is Your Brain On God
In the previous episodes I talked about #gratitude and #Thanksgiving as the gateway to peace. I looked at the fascinating science behind gratitude as well as what the Bible has to say on the subject. …
12 Things the Bible Says to Be Thankful For
For several years, many of my Facebook friends have participated in the activity of making a daily post to identify their thankfulness for something or someone. That’s fantastic! A number of years ago, I started …
Gratitude is the Gateway to Real, True Peace!
In the previous episode, season 1, episode 39, I did my best to give you a brief (and, hopefully, fascinating) look at 30 years of psychological research on the subject of gratitude, a virtue which …
Gratitude: The One Virtue That Can Transform Your Life
I know this probably sounds like a bunch of marketing, clickbait hype, but it isn’t at all. After 30 years of research and countless numbers of peer-reviewed studies, psychologists are finally agreeing with writers throughout …
The 8 Dimensions of Leadership
Are you a “one-dimensional leader”? More importantly, how would you know if you were (or weren’t)? This is the fourth and final installment in a series of episodes talking specifically about leadership. In this episode, …
The 5 Phases in the Making of a Leader
Beginning in the 80s, Dr. J. Robert Clinton and his students began a massive study of leaders: historic, biblical, and contemporary. At the time of the original publication of Clinton’s book, The Making of a …
The One Thing That Seems to Matter Most in the Making of a Leader
I’m in the middle of a series of episodes talking about leadership. My goal is to offer you some ways of thinking about the subject that both encourage and challenge you with a unique (or, …
What Your Pumpkin Flavored [ANYTHING!] Can Teach You About True Leadership
For this and the next few episodes of Better Mind, Better Life, I want to tackle the subject of leadership, and, HOPEFULLY, offer you some ways of thinking about the subject that both encourage and …
When Life Feels Like a Maze, Change Your Mindset!
Life can often feel very much like a maze. It feels like each day is filled with difficult choices—left or right—in which the consequences of those choices seem complex beyond comprehension. Will this help or …
You Really Need to Stop Trying to Prove Yourself
If I had to pick one thing that I knew for SURE you and I both had in common—along with every other person we know—I’d probably say this: We’re all losers. I don’t mean that …