Tag Archives: Life

Four Invaluable Lessons Learned From Over 20 Years of Marathoning

by on June 25, 2010 in Creating Culture, Influence

Yes. You read it right. My last twenty-three years of training have resulted in nineteen completed and certified marathons (26.2 miles each). If you’re counting, that would be 497.8 miles of delicious agony. And that is not counting the 12,809 training miles of running I have logged in my journal. To put it into stark [...]

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7 Characteristics of Effective Mentorship

by on June 15, 2010 in Influence

For the past ten years I’ve experienced the joy of mentoring a small group of professional artists each week. And once each year for those same ten years, I have mentored a much larger global group of creatives – most of whom work as artistic pastors in contemporary mega-churches. Two years ago, I also began [...]

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Letters From A Devastated Artist (8)

by on April 5, 2010 in My Writings

“Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!” – Auntie Mame Dear Life, You really suck sometimes. But then again, yesterday, as I experienced the Easter celebration, you seemed less sucky and even somewhat hopeful and vibrant.  To the artist in me, Easter represents an extraordinary banquet of magic, wonder, incarnation, love, [...]

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