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What Is Your Answer to the Most Powerful Question Jesus Ever Asked?

Recently a student coach asked me as his client to imagine Jesus listening to our conversation and then Jesus interrupts and asks this powerful question. “What do you want me to do for you?” – Mark 10:36, 51 My coach turned this practice session into a possibility torrent. Jesus hadn’t just offered me three wishes.

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Three Leadership Lessons I Learned From Peyton Manning

Peyton Manning is unarguably one of the best quarterbacks ever to play in the NFL. At the ripe old age of 39 (that’s 115 in the NFL), he has two Super Bowl rings and the respect of every defense in the league. What I respect most is that he is always a class act, always

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How to Turn All the Lights on in the House

I see better when the lights are on. That may sound obvious, but it becomes ever more important in the middle of the night when I have some urgency to get to another room. I would urge blind people to never own a dog or have children. Both like to leave their stuff on the

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How to Pick a Great Coaching Topic

If you do enough coaching, it becomes similar to eating out too much. “Where do you want to eat?” becomes a painful question to answer. In coaching, you can come to hate the question, “What do you want to talk about today?” Some people don’t think deep enough. “I don’t know. Everything is pretty good.”

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The Art of BEING a Great Coach

There is a difference between being a coach and doing coaching, just as there is a difference between being a pastor and doing the job of pastoring. I just finished up teaching an online class called Building a Dynamic Coaching Relationship with excellent, deep thinking students. During our last class, we discussed “What do you

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7 Ideas for Jump Starting Your Coaching Practice

One of my hobbies is an old Jeep that I sometimes drive and often work on. I’m no certified mechanic, but I can take care of the one thing that the Jeep most often needs: a jump start. Jeeps aren’t the only things that sometimes need a jump start. The same is true for relationships,

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