Category: Social

  • Keep Your Friends Close!

    Keep Your Friends Close!

    Just what is the social area of my life, and how is it shaping me? How is it affecting my energy, peace, relationships, decisions, freedom, purpose, and future? We treat the social area of life like it’s casual. It isn’t. Who you let close is shaping who you become. The people you surround yourself with…

  • AOL?!

    AOL?!

    It’s not what you think! AOL refers to the Areas Of Life – not America Online! These are the areas I define in LifeNudge. The seven areas are not sacred, and they are not new. Many models already exist. I’m simply using the seven that help me see my life clearly. These areas have worked…

  • Accept or Agree?

    Accept or Agree?

    I was listening to someone recently, listening to them explain why they had cut a person out of their life. The real issue was not betrayal or abuse. It was disagreement. That’s where a lot of us live now. We act as if acceptance is compromise, as if making room for someone means surrendering our…

  • Be The Change?!

    Be The Change?!

    I’ve grown suspicious of that phrase. Not because it sounds wrong. Because it sounds too right. Too clean. Too flattering. Too easy to say while your own life is still full of compromise, vanity, and carefully protected dysfunction. “Be the change” sounds noble until you realize how easily it turns you into your own messiah.…