Imagine a platform with more than 120 million readers and no ads where you can publish whatever you want and get paid for it. It's not a fantasy–it's Medium. I was first introduced to this platform in 2019 by someone who asked me to write an exposé about a sleazy seminar company and publish it [...]
Sciatica refers to pain that radiates along the path of the sciatic nerve, which branches from your lower back through your hips and buttocks and down each leg. Typically, sciatica affects only one side of your body. (Source: Mayo Clinic) Though this is a departure from what we usually post on our website, I decided [...]
What happens when your child’s school receives a bomb threat? Of course, the children are probably evacuated. But where do they go? When I was growing up, we had fire drills. Alarm bells would clang, and we would be led by our teachers to a designated place away from the building where we would stand [...]
I have the right to say it, but should I? As an American writer, I am an unequivocal supporter of our First Amendment right to free speech and free expression. I also believe that speech should be honest, but that’s not the rabbit trail I want to go down today. What I want to discuss [...]
As soon as they’re named, get URLs for your kids and grandkids I admit: I buy domain names the way I used to buy shoes—more than I need and some I’ll never use. But years ago, I bought some domain names that will be priceless. That collection of URLs was the .com names for all [...]
If you're writing a book, don’t be a one-trick pony. Early in my writing career, when I was freelancing for magazines and before I had the opportunity to write my first book, I was at a writers conference where I heard an editor with a major New York publishing house say this: We don’t want [...]
Excerpted from Work as Worship: How Your Labor Becomes Your Legacy In my conversation with marketplace ministry expert Mark Goldstein, I asked how workplace worship relates to today’s church. Here’s part of what he said: If you ask the average pastor, most will admit they really don’t understand business and businesspeople. And they don’t know [...]
As businesses begin to reopen after the COVID-19 lockdown, it’s an ideal time to be working on your growth plan. You’re probably thinking: Grow? I just want to get back to where I was. That’s understandable, but it’s short-sighted. Most businesses are making essential operational changes to meet the requirements of serving customers in an [...]
During the COVID-19 lockdown, members of the Central Florida Christian Chamber gathered on Zoom every afternoon for an hour of sharing and relationship-building. During one of those sessions, I gave this presentation on 10 characteristics high achievers have in common based on information in my ebook, The Mindset of High Achievers. Watch the 10-minute video: [...]
The Sequence to Success: Three O’s that will Take You Anywhere in Life Samuel R. Chand Whitaker House It’s easy to misread the title of this book at first glance. Did I really want to read another book promising success secrets that obviously aren’t secrets because if they were, they wouldn’t be in a book? [...]
