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Raising the trophy
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Competition and Faith…

Hello leaders, clients, donors, and friends, Greetings this morning from Alabama, my 41st visited state, and the site of an Executive Forum I’m part of for a few days. Here’s a few brief thoughts today about competition and faith, whih are both most relevant topics for any leader. You may have seen (or heard about)

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Eclipse
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Eclipse: The Day After…

Hello leaders, clients, donors, and friends, I’m writing to you about “The Day After.” Again! Last week, it was the day after Easter, and I offered a little challenge to keep the faith and hope and victory of Easter alive in our homes, relationships, and even workplaces. As leaders, we know that it all starts

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Horse Race
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Tale of Two Horseys

Good afternoon leaders, clients, donors, and friends, This weekend I saw the thrill of victory and…the thrill of victory! I had an abiding personal interest in two stories witnessed by “large” audiences who saw amazing drama unfold. One “large” audience included 157,000 people live and 16.7 million on TV. The other had about 50,000 live

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A Weekend to Remember…

Hello Heritage Forum friends …Whether we got to hang out a lot or a little, you’re one of the guys I was grateful to have had at least a conversation with, or I remember a good part of your story. Here is a brief letter I send on Mondays, mainly for followers of Christ to

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Dough at the hospital
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Thank You Lord, & Friends & Happy 3rd Anniversary…

Good morning leaders, clients, and friends, Well, I apologize, maybe today’s picture should have had a “Parents’ Warning” or sumthin’!! But yes, that’s my beautiful and enduring bride Denise with me in the hospital, 3 years ago today, just after I’d had a life-saving organ transplant, my third big surgery in 16 months. You’ve heard

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Football-Friday
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The Coaching Carousel, & The Feedback Carousel

Good morning leaders, clients, and friends, How are you at receiving honest, well-intentioned feedback? What gets in the way of receiving it well? How are you at giving it? What holds you back from receiving it well? Perhaps you’ve heard about the number of high-level College and Pro football coaching positions that have become vacant

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On The 1st Day of Christmas…

We made it?! …Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today, finally… “First Day…” One of our absolutely favorite family traditions has become Disney Epcot’s

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Two Turt-, no, Testaments!

Welcome to another of Doug’s 12 Days of Christ-mas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping me [email protected]. We’re almost down to #1, but today I’m borrowing from The Eagles, and Yellowstone, and doing Part II of

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Three Great Virtues…

Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christ-mas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today. “Three…” On the 3rd day of Christmas, the “French hens” had to do with Latin, chicken, Gallus

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“Four Camera Angles…?!”

Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today. “Four…” On the 4th day of Christmas, the kids would have gotten a breath after the “Fiiiiiiiiiiive

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Fiiiiiiiiive… Golden Rings?

Welcome again to Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, andChrist-mas. If you’ve missed a few, checkyour in-box from yesterday, or [email protected]. Today, “Fiiiiiiiive….” On the 5th day of Christmas, the kids would be out of breath after the drummers and pipers and maids and swans,

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Seven Swans, Seven Gifts.

Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today: “Seven…” Lucky Seven! Touchdown! 007. The pass line. Mickey Mantle. Ronaldo. Boomer. Elway. Kyle Boller…What comes to

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Eight Maids A-Milkin’?!

Eight Maids-a-Milkin’?! …Welcome to another of this year’s Doug’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the children’s game, tradition, culture, and Christ-mas. If you’ve missed a few, check your in-box from yesterday, or ping [email protected]. Today. “Eight…” What do you think of when you hear “maids a-milkin’?! …Nope, I don’t know

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Welcome to Day 3 of this year’s 12 Days of Christmas, at the intersection of the song, the memory-and-forfeit children’s game it’s based on, the Christmas story that it’s based on, and some lively present day applications.

Today, for Sunday Lord’s Day, we come to the “Ten Lords-a-Leapin’.” I don’ know who the lords were or what they were leapin’ for, but the 10 was representative of the Ten Commandments. No, not the Charlton Heston ten, or even the Mel Brooks 15, but the Raiders of the Lost Ark ten, the first

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Welcome to Monday Moments, 12 Days of Christmas style. If you missed the first one yesterday, check last evening’s in-box. Today, it’s a current cultural version of “Eleven Piper’s Piping…”

The “Twelve Days of Christmas,” before it was a song, or a children’s book, or a tradition, or a rhyme, …it started as a memory-and-forfeit game in Europe. When your number came, you had to repeat the rhyme for the number. The larks with each number – today’s is Piper’s Piping – were harmless, and

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