by joncook | Apr 15, 2015 | Purpose
There are two ages the American population has set as the range for your greatest significance: 22 and 62. You’re “supposed” to graduate college at 22, right? You’re “supposed” to retire at 62, right? And in between those two ages...
by joncook | Apr 13, 2015 | Purpose
Transformation doesn’t happen overnight. Butterflies, Rome, and Google weren’t made overnight. Any thing worthwhile takes time to develop. Here are six “Up’s” that can transform both your personal and professional life. Whether...
by joncook | Apr 10, 2015 | Dreaming, Purpose
So many of us have a dream we want to launch, but we don’t know where to start. Maybe it’s writing your first book. Maybe it’s starting your own business. Maybe you have an incredibly powerful story and don’t know where or how to get your first...
by joncook | Apr 9, 2015 | Purpose
Setting goals is a great way to achieve success and meaning throughout your life. A ten-year study of Harvard MBA graduates found that the 3% of new graduates who set clear, written goals for their future earned ten times as much on average as the 97% of their...
by joncook | Apr 8, 2015 | Purpose
People crave purpose. I truly believe that at the heart of each of us is an innate desire to mean something. You matter to God, which is the whole point of why you’re still here. I talk with people on an almost daily basis about purpose. Why are you here? What...
by joncook | Apr 6, 2015 | Dreaming, Purpose
What if we renamed TGIFriday’s to TGIMonday’s? How weird would that sound? Is there a reason why Monday is treated like the redheaded step-child of the week? It’s because we allow ourselves to be trapped into careers that have no meaning or purpose....
by joncook | Feb 11, 2015 | Faith Journey, Purpose
I like riding in old elevators, the ones with the red velvet carpet, the hand-crank, and the elevator operator sitting on the bar stool. It’s charming and a flashback to yesteryear. Riding on an elevator with strangers probably wouldn’t make any normal...
by joncook | Feb 9, 2015 | Community, Purpose
Why are you here? This is a huge question people ask because we seek purpose: why am I here? It’s a very existential, personal, and profound question. As with many western thinkers, Christians in America (including yours truly) have turned “calling”...
by joncook | Feb 8, 2015 | Purpose
At least once a week people mention to me they wish they could be more productive. I intentionally schedule in fifteen minutes at the end of every work day to triage the next day and ask myself three questions. I first came across these questions a few years ago and...
by joncook | Feb 5, 2015 | Everyday Life, Faith Journey
It’s easy to live in the past. It’s the high school quarterback who wears his letterman’s jacket to the 30th reunion to remember the glory years. It’s the 30-something who can’t get over their college sweetheart six years after the big...