A couple years ago, I sat down in a bookstore and read Navy SEAL Eric Greiten’s first book, The Heart And The Fist and subsequently wrote a review. In my bookstore exploration I also discovered he had just written a new book, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom For Living A Better Life. During that time I also discovered Greitens was also running
In January 2016, I launched a personal commitment to develop in a whole new arena, coaching leaders. Since roughly 2013, both my friend Jake and myself have benefitted greatly from working with a Leadership/Executive Coach to improve our self-leadership, our management, and our ability to bring the best service possible to our supporters at Nuru as well as the more than 120,000 beneficiaries and over 200 leaders we work with in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Nigeria.
Well, 2018 was a full year, and largely it was a year with very little blogging or writing. I’m hoping to change that in 2019, and that includes sharing a few posts in the weeks ahead that I had hoped to share in the past.
I had been in conversations with my friends John Hancox and Jake Harriman for a few months about this new organization they were planning to launch, an organization dedicated to the work of addressing extreme poverty in fragile rural communities. Jake had been in Kenya serving in an internship with another organization, and we had all been reading his blog posts about
It’s been quite a while since I have written a blog post of any sort, and it has not been for what I would say was a lack of content. Sometimes in the midst of living out the stories of our lives, we either just don’t make the time for adequate reflection, or that reflection does not get transcribed from
“But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.”~Luke 2:19 Well, 2017 is nearly over, and it has been quite a whirlwind. Every year, I strive to write some kind of retrospective on the year. Sometimes it makes an appearance in a Christmas letter, and other times it ends up being a blog post (which have
It’s been a while since I posted on this blog, but today is just too important to not post. A generous West Virginian has committed $15,000 to match every donation that Nuru International receives today in honor of #GivingTuesday. Over the last nine years, our entire team at Nuru has been hard at work developing leaders who have the passion,
Each year on or around Veterans Day (and many other holidays) I like to pause to reflect on the day–its meaning and how and why the day is observed in our culture. Since the advent of social media, Veterans Day in particular becomes a day for a collective pause. I see updated profile photos of many of my friends as
A few weeks ago, I received a message and saw an image on social media that announced the departure of Jack “Flying Duck” Nealefrom this world to the next. My mind went immediately to his family, and praying for their loss. Travel prevented me from attending his funeral, and my pace of life has prevented me from writing about this
For half a decade, Jamie and I have made an annual commitment to train and to run the Marine Corps Marathon and coordinate a charity team for Nuru International. In 2013, it started with a group of my friend Jake’s classmates from the United States Naval Academy expressing a desire to participate in an effort to raise funds and awareness