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For ten straight years, the city of Troy stood unconquered. The Greek armies brought everything they had against those massive walls, and nothing worked. The frontal assault was a total failure. So, the Greeks packed up their tents and acted like they had given up, leaving a massive wooden horse outside…

There is an old saying that says, “Nice guys finish last.” This saying implies that to really win in life you will have to abandon kindness or being accommodating. Instead, you will have to be bold, aggressive, or assertive. To be successful at work, or in relationships you have to be willing to do what…

Did you know you can sign up for a service with the United States Postal Service called Informed Delivery? It is free, and what it does is it sends you a daily email with scans of pieces of mail headed toward your mailbox. This means that you can know what is in your mailbox before you even open it.…

When you pick up a travel brochure, they don’t sell you on the drive to the airport, or the busy terminal, the crowded seats at your gate, or even the plane ride itself. They sell you on the destination. They sell you on the cozy sunlit beach, the snowy mountain resort, the ski slopes, or the glassy…

The greatest deception is that we are the commanders of our own destinies. That isn’t to say that we don’t have some say in the direction of our lives, but we naturally have an instinct, a desire to be in the driver’s seat of our own lives. The deception in Genesis 3 was that we could become gods ourselves,…

Picture standing at the entrance of a high-peak mountain trail. You walk up, and right there at the trailhead, there's a large wooden sign: Warning: Steep Incline, Loose Rock, Unpredictable Weather. Nine out of ten casual hikers take one look at that sign, pull a quick U-turn, and head right back to…

Do you remember those moments when you were a kid and you were doing something in the house you weren’t supposed to do, and you broke something? You know your parents are going to be upset, so self preservation mode kicks in and you start coming up with ways to explain the broken coffee table, the vase,…

Imagine sitting in a hospital room on a quiet Tuesday afternoon. The hum of the monitors is the only sound in the room. You’re sitting next to someone you love—a parent, a mentor, a grandparent—and you realize you are watching the final chapter of a long life come to a close. In those moments, nobody…

I want to speak to the older folks in the room for a minute. I need to ask you a question. For those of you who have had a parent pass away, do you remember the last words they said to you? I hope that I am stirring up positive emotions. I have a theory that for those of you who have had a parent pass…