2017 is over. It was a bittersweet year for me, but I’m happy that I wrote 12 new songs during that time. I recently went live on Facebook, and I played my two favorite songs that I wrote last year. Check it out in the above video. Also, if you’re a Spotify user, and …
One of the songs I play in my weekly worship sessions at the Succat Hallel house of prayer in Jerusalem, Israel, is “I Love Your Ministry” by Jon Thurlow. It’s basically an R&B song, and I love it. I play it in my own stripped-down way on an acoustic guitar, but I like drawing …
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I have this memory of receiving a birthday gift from my brother when I was around eight years old. By the time I was born, he was all grown up and out of the house, so I didn’t see him all that often. He would come to visit every once in a while. One day …
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Do you know why you live where you live? Can you point to one motivating reason? If you can get there, you can set yourself up for a great coming year. Not too long ago, my wife and I were faced with the challenge of renewing our rent contract. We didn’t want to pick up …
I have a life dream – to be a professional skateboarder. If it sounds crazy when you’re 12 years old, I can imagine it sounds crazier when you’re 40. If I were to pursue this goal today, I would be sacrificing things that are very valuable to me – income, a career, and my family …
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I set a list of goals for 2017. I achieved none of them. Because of the way I set up my goals, I started this year with five side projects, and no main projects. I had no steady source of income, and I was speculating with a handful of pursuits. They included: running a marketing …
A Recipe for Burnout There was a time, about 10 years ago, when I rented my own office in the downtown area of my city. I was running a record label and music distribution at the time. (Remember those things called CDs?) It was mostly just me. Although I had some great people helping me …
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The new Justice League movie is about to come out. Batman and friends united against the forces of evil. The world has been waiting for this movie for years. There have already been three movies to set it up. But I had a healthy reminder that this movie, like other Hollywood blockbusters, is a story, …
“Me? A leader?” It was only in my 30s did I begin to realize that I was called to leadership. That’s because I was already leading. It occurred to me one night, when I was about 31, as I shut the lights off in my house at night. I realized that on that particular night, …
