Jeff's Musings

I did not consider myself a leader when I was young nor did I have aspirations to be a leader, but I became a leader. Leadership is contagious. When you are around a great leader, you learn, you grow, and you want to become like that leader. You know when you are around a great […]...

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 […]...

When it comes to the simple life do you want to reorganize your life or do you want to revolutionize your life? If you want to reorganize your life any old hint column in the newspaper will do. But if you want to revolutionize your life Jesus Christ is the one who can do that. […]...

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 ...

I am not going to bore you to death with a list of the Top Ten posts I written, because if you  are like me, I really don’t have time to read ten blog posts right now. So, I am going to bore you with the five most visited blog posts I wrote in 2013. […]...

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 […]...

Ben Franklin said, “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for it is the stuff that life is made of.” Time is a gift from God. For many of us we treat time more as a commodity than a gift. Time is a gift. It is something to be treasured. It is something […]...