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How to Effectively Start and Lead Your New Online Service Remotely
There is nothing normal about any of this. There are no metrics for success, no stats on how to be effective during a crisis; no one right way forward. But there is a way forward that meets the needs of the people we serve and the communities we live in. While the world is in…
How to Rock a Home Office for Your Remote and Work from Home Reality
This post seems even more timely now with the Coronavirus crisis, as people are trying to figure out life right now, as we shift from in-office to remote work. Here’s how I rock it, and how you can work from home effectively. I’ve been working remote for two decades now, having an office both on-site…
Coronavirus and the Church: How to Lead Online Groups
Most churches are streaming services or asking their congregations to host watch parties in their homes over the weekend, but what are they doing for small groups? After leading online small groups for over a decade, I have a little insight into how to coordinate and lead groups effectively. Not only can this meet a…
Coronavirus and the Church: How to Take Your Church Online … FAST!
Are you ready to move fully online, today? If you read “Coronavirus and the Church: How to Best Prepare for the Inevitable“, then you probably want to know how to take your church online as fast as possible. In this post, I will give you simple steps every church can use to take their church…
Coronavirus and the Church: How to Best Prepare for the Inevitable
I know everyone has a “10 Ways to Stay Safe this Flu Season” article, but this is different. And for me, this is a lot more personal. My wife has Multiple Sclerosis, has been undergoing chemotherapy as her treatment for two years, and is immunocompromised. While people are picking sides on a virus, I am…
Four Principles for Creating (and Growing) Sustainable Systems
Everyone likes to talk about scale, but not everyone can (or should) think about it. For me, I have had to find a happy medium between growing my business and balancing my life. In business books and articles like Forbes, they call this the “work life balance“. The thing is, I don’t have balance and…
"You have nothing to prove and no one to impress." - Larry.
I talk about margin a lot. I think some of it comes back to how I was raised, but most of it is how I went through ministry stressed and just plain tired for so long. So I learned how to say no and set proper priorities, learned to value the right thing in life, and really, learned to breathe easier. Maybe you're there now, and maybe, just maybe, you need some margin in your finances, relationships, time, and life too.
