Jeff's Musings

On Monday I shared Five Ways to Build Balance Into Your Life and today I want to share the “How” in getting started to bringing balance into your life. Let’s look at a couple of ways to lead a balanced life.  ...

Remember as kid trying to walk across one of those beams in a playground at school or a park and doing your best to hold your balance? Or the image of an Olympic gymnast on the balance beam is probably etched in your mind. An object that is not naturally a part of the beam […]...

This is part two of How A Good Leader Organizes. In this post I highlight four other principles good leaders execute to be good organizers. Examine part one along with the list in this post and make a plan of action of how you as a leader will be more organized in 2014....

You may be the world’s number-one neat freak, but you can still have clutter in your life. Clutter comes in many forms and shapes that we sometimes do not recognize. We tend to think of clutter as stuff piled up on a desk, clothes accumulating in a closet, or the messy interior of your spouse’s ...

Whether you like it or not, your staff is on social media and probably on it quiet often. If you are smart, you will have your company or ministry on social media as well. You can be a knucklehead and ignore social media or you can leverage it to help your company or ministry fulfill […]...

Since the beginning of the biblical record, God promised God’s people that someday He would dwell among them. No more wondering what God is like, no more wondering if God really cares, because with the coming of this Child of Promise we can each know that God understands us. We can be assured ...

One of the reasons why many people never succeed in life is they give up too soon.  I played lots of sports when I was young and still like to today. My favorite sport to play was basketball.  Everybody knows that you often win in the last couple of seconds.  The last couple seconds of […]...

So many peple try to find the meaning of Christmas.  Some think it is a feeling or a spirit.  We get caught up in the packages and bows, parties, and shopping. This is the worst time of the year for depression, because so many people have this idea of Christmas as a Currier & Ives […]...

I have to admit, I tend not to be a focused person as I go from one thing to the next, one project to the next, one person to the next. I confess, I am writing this post more about me than you. I need laser intense focus. One of my all time favorite animated […]...

Definition of Integrity  (from Webster’s Online) “Integrity is the quality or state of being complete or undivided or incorruptible.”  This is saying that you can’t compartmentalize your life. Integrity means wholeness, unseparated, you’ve got it all together. Mark Twain, talking about t...