Why I Have Zero Tolerance for Bullies There are many things in this world I can overlook. A bad day, a careless mistake, a misunderstanding between people who simply see things differently — these are part of being human, and grace goes a long way. But there is one thing I have never been able […]
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There is a saying I keep coming back to: broken crayons still color. Six words. That’s all it is. But every time I sit with it, something in me exhales. Because if I’m being honest, there are seasons where I have felt exactly like that. Snapped in half. Worn down to the paper. Tossed back
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Stop Waiting to Be Picked You’ve done the work. You have outperformed. You’ve been patient. It’s time to stop waiting for someone else to recognize what you already know. You know the feeling. You’ve hit every metric, led every initiative, and showed up in ways that weren’t even in your job description. You told yourself
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Let me set the scene. I came up through engineering. I studied it, lived it, and parlayed it into a career in tech — including building my own startups. If you had told me then that I would one day be leading U.S. Customs brokerage operations for a major international trade company, I probably would
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On the quiet discipline we keep forgetting There is a small word tucked into the Psalms that most readers skip over. Selah. Scholars still debate exactly what it meant to the original audience, but the working consensus is that it was a kind of musical or liturgical direction — a signal to pause, to lift
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Year 38: Progress Over Perfection Today I turn 38, and before I say anything else, I want to give thanks to God…for the opportunities that have come my way, for doors that opened when I didn’t even know I needed them to, and for the growth I’ve experienced this past year in ways I’m still
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Why I treat growth as a discipline, not a destination. Obviously I am a little late posting… Every January, I ask myself the same question: what do I need to learn this year to become the leader my team, my family, and my future self actually need? It is a deceptively simple question, but the
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“What started as a business trip ended as a conversation with my future.” Some trips you take for the agenda. Others end up rewriting it. My recent week in Houston was supposed to be the first kind, and somewhere between a meeting room, a barbecue counter, and a quiet drive past a few houses I
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A Word For the Purposeful: Write the Vision, Make It Plain “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.” HABAKKUK 2:2–3 · KJV There is something sacred about a vision written down. Not merely dreamed, not only spoken into the air — but inscribed, set before you,
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How to Advocate for Yourself Without Being Labeled “Difficult” Standing your ground doesn’t mean starting a fight. It means knowing your worth — and finally being done with shrinking to make other people comfortable. Let me guess. You’ve been in a situation where something wasn’t right — a decision made without you, a boundary crossed,
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