About one weekend a month, my wife serves in the Iowa National Guard and is gone for a couple of days.  A few times each year, she is gone for longer stints, as she had an 8 day tour a month ago.  So when this happens, we get creative with scheduling, I take time off...

Stepping back into the book "Lead Like Jesus" by Blanchard, Hodges and Hendry, I recognize that Jesus' leadership experiences on earth give Him the ability to be a premier consultant for us. We ask, "Does Jesus have any practical knowledge with leadership issues like...

I'm reading the book "Lead Like Jesus" (Revisited edition of 2016; authors Ken Blanchard, Phil Hodges and Phyllis Hendry) and I'm recognizing numerous valuable insights for us as Vital Men. In the upcoming weeks I'll be sharing additional perspective from this book...

We tend to overcomplicate things at times, or at least I seem to. For me, I often seem to want to do too much in a given amount of time than is reasonable.  It does motivate me to be more efficient with my time, get things done, but it also adds a bit more stress at...