Tag: Life
3 Things to Consider Before Giving Up on Your Spouse
By: Carey Nieuwhof You’ve heard people say that marriage can be hard, but you didn’t know it could be this hard. You married with the hope of sharing your life with someone who’s as pumped to make the most of it as you are, so how did the two of […]
Life: It’s STILL Not About You
Life: It’s STILL Not About You .et_post_meta_wrapper Over a decade ago, Pastor Rick Warren wrote The Purpose Driven Life, which went viral and global. I still give it away all the time as a basic primer on life as God intended it to be lived. And this best-selling book starts […]
When You’re Completely Spent and Have Nothing to Show For it All
When You’re Completely Spent and Have Nothing to Show For it All .et_post_meta_wrapper by Brandon Cox: When my wife and I were first married, we lived in Beebe, Arkansas where I served as pastor of a small church and we commuted several days per week to Conway, an hour away, […]
5 Signs You’re No Longer Inspiring Your Team
by Carey Nieuwhof: Leadership is hard. I totally get that, because I’ve been in it for over two decades. But to be perfectly honest, leadership never gets easy. The reason it’s never easy is because what’s hard keeps changing. You solve one problem, and now a new, likely larger on […]
Why I’m Changing My Mind About Technology
by Carey Nieuwhof: How do you feel about your phone? That’s an increasingly interesting question. Ask me that five years ago and I would have told you I love mine. My guess is that by now you might have a love/hate relationship with it. You love what it gives you, […]
How to Lead Through Imperfect Conditions
by Carey Nieuwhof: Let’s face it, you’d love to have ideal conditions to lead in. Who wouldn’t? And while, ideally: Your team would be perfectly motivated to achieve the mission No good team member would ever leave You’d be inspired to write every day The people you’re trying to reach […]
5 Signs You’re Becoming an Irrelevant Leader
by Carey Nieuwhof: So how relevant are you as a leader? Any idea how you’d answer that accurately? You can debate how important relevance is all day long (and many do), but the truth is irrelevant leaders make almost no impact on the people or causes around them. Why is […]
12 Secrets Most Leaders Won’t Tell You
by Carey Nieuwhof: Leadership is a journey…a journey that’s probably different than you thought it would be before you stepped into leadership. When I was young, I always thought top leaders had it all figured out. That the uncertainty would one day disappear once I had more life and leadership […]
4 Keys To Creating a Healthy Culture That Naturally Resists Toxic People
By Carey Nieuwhof: Guess what’s impacting your leadership more thank you think? Culture. Specifically, the culture you’re creating as a leader. Often I hear leaders complain about the toxic people they have in their organization (staff, customers, volunteers, attenders). To be sure, that happens. But if you always have toxic […]
Dear Discouraged Leader (5 Questions to Ask Before You Implode)
by Carey Nieuwhof: Dear Discouraged Leader, Being a leader isn’t the easiest thing in the world. But it isn’t the hardest thing in the world either. You’re not alone. Leadership is hard at times. In fact, if you’re really leading, there’s rarely a season that isn’t filled with challenges. Just […]