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Earnest is long-term. Earnestness is highly underestimated. It comes from the core, while hip is trying to impress you with the surface.
Companies that blitzscale have to rapidly navigate a set of key transitions as their organizations grow.
Holy fear transforms individuals by aligning their hearts with God’s, making them love what He loves and hate what He hates. This transformation fosters a deeper connection with God, as seen in the contrast between being 'scared of God' and being 'terrified of being away from Him.' Bevere explains, 'The person who fears God doesn’t say within themselves, ‘How close can I get to the line of sin and not fall in?’ No, he or she says, ‘I want to be so close to God, and so far away from that line, that I can’t even see it.’'
A substantial body of evidence indicates that those who live together before marriage are more likely to break up after marriage.
Nothing is more destructive to a team than having someone play outside their sweet spot. Such a situation hurts the individual's confidence, slows the team down, and ultimately prevents the organization from fulfilling its purpose.
To consume richly, produce richly first. Producers get rich. Consumers get poor.
The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.
It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.
High performers have the shortest integration times and branch lifetimes, with branch life and integration typically lasting hours –or a day.
"Through a specific and powerful five-stage workflow, you can get back in control of everything on your plate." GTD's five-stage workflow—Capture, Clarify, Organize, Reflect, and Engage—creates a seamless system for managing tasks. Capturing involves noting down every task or idea in an external tool, while clarifying means determining if the item is actionable. This structured approach ensures that nothing slips through the cracks, allowing you to focus on what truly matters.
Plan one activity each week that both partners enjoy. Whether it's a walk in the park or cooking a meal together, ensure the activity facilitates meaningful interaction and connection.
High-performing teams reported having leaders with the strongest behaviors across all dimensions: vision, inspirational communication, intellectual stimulation, supportive leadership, and personal recognition.
If you are going to eat shit, don’t nibble.
Before any of us can hope to engage others in wonderfully fierce conversations, we must engage ourselves in a dialogue so real, so sweet, so fierce, so filled with silences that we can hear our own heartbeat.
The kingdom of God cometh not with observation... for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
The world you know has just crumbled around you. Nothing is what it seemed; everything is unexpected and new again... Chaos has eaten your soul.
Marketing is sharing what you love with people who will appreciate hearing about it.
Prioritize product–market fit and iterative experimentation before spending on top-of-funnel blasts. Read and apply the PMF and lean canon (The Lean Startup; The Lean Entrepreneur; Stanford ProductMarketFit page), then layer on contagion mechanics and loop design (Viral Loop by Penenberg; Contagious by Berger). This sequence operationalizes the contrarian view that early “awareness building is a waste of startup resources” (see Sean Ellis’s essay) until the product retains and expands users organically.
Reduce the time spent on email, social media, and other network tools. Schedule specific times for checking and responding to emails and avoid these distractions during periods of deep work.
The narrative dismantles the belief that inner sincerity or freedom from constraints produces excellence, showing instead how deliberate limits, reverence for exemplars, and institutional covenants produce durable self-command and public usefulness. Outside-in formation trains courage and restraint before feelings catch up; institutional devotion turns ambition into stewardship; magnanimity trades charisma for integrity and effectiveness under strain. The practical upshot is stark: if you want a life that rises on the far side of humility, build constraints first, seek greatness you can imitate, make timely decisions with imperfect data, and let service—not self—determine your path.
