by Chip Dodd | Sep 25, 2018 | Change, Keeping Heart, Leadership
No one naturally seeks to become mediocre, the diminishment of excellence. Anyone who thinks that they seek mediocrity, i.e., the uninspired, indifferent, average, lackluster, or forgettable, is confused as to who they are and how they are made. They are actually...
by Chip Dodd | Sep 20, 2018 | Desire, Keeping Heart, Leadership, Spiritual Root System
Integrity is what people who have an internal locus of control tend to express in thought and action. An internal locus of control is the term psychologists use to describe a person who behaves responsibly because it feels good and it’s good to do. Integrity...
by Stephen James | Sep 19, 2018 | Parenting
A few weeks ago, I (Stephen) was having a conversation with one of my sons and Heather in the kitchen. We were going round and round, and the conversation was precariously teetering on the verge of a blowup. My son looked me square in the eye and said, “You only...
by Chip Dodd | Sep 11, 2018 | Hope, Keeping Heart, Spiritual Root System
I It seems paradoxical, but admission of powerlessness can access great gifts. In a movie called Gladiator, Russell Crowe stars as a general named Maximus who is attempting to overthrow the grotesque abusiveness that had possessed Rome. He asks an old, cynical...
by Chip Dodd | Sep 7, 2018 | Parenting
This is an excerpt from Parenting with Heart: How Imperfect Parents Can Raise Resilient, Loving, and Wise-Hearted Kids, by Stephen James and Chip Dodd One of my sons (Chip’s) and I went on a fly-fishing trip a few years ago. He was out of college, gone from our...
by Chip Dodd | Sep 4, 2018 | Change, Keeping Heart
There are four realities in living life that we cannot overcome. They are fixed factors of living on earth. We may waste our lives attempting to defeat them, instead of living well within the context of them. Experiencing living within their parameters can actually...
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