A quick note on the Enneagram. It’s my favorite personality assessment, especially as it relates to the idea that forms the heart of my business and mission. Understanding your God-given personality is one of the four big objectives in discovering your destiny. The...
The Further and Fantastic Journey
A DestinyWorks Blog
Embracing the Low-grade Fever of Sadness
What if I told you that the sadness you feel right now is never going to go away…as in ever? That, right there, is likely to cause some of you to hit delete. No way do you want to consider such a depressing future. I get it. But what if accepting that unvarnished...
What I binge watched on Netflix that moved me to tears.
One night, a few months ago, while bored-scrolling through the Netflix options, a documentary series called Lenox Hill caught my attention. It’s an intimate look into the lives of four doctors working at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. I wasn’t expecting much...
Are you whacked out or are you self-differentiated?
While I was processing the mask wars and writing about them here and here, I was drawn back to Edwin Friedman’s book, Failure of Nerve. The big idea of the book is very provocative. The only way for a nation, company, family, church, etc. to survive in the midst of...
Your pain may be the prime source of your calling. Really!
“I will redeem the years that the locusts have taken!” That’s one of my favorite mysterious promises from the Old Testament of the Bible. It comes from the ancient prophet Joel, recorded in Joel 2:25. Locusts, when they swarm, are considered by many to be the world’s...