This is the day we all make promises for the coming year. But I say, forget the next year. Let’s talk about the next 24 hours. We can do a lot in a day. In one day in 1993, Charles Servizio did 46,001 pushups. In one day, Ben Feldman sold $20 million of insurance. In…
If you’re really old, you will recall what happened on this date in 1879. That was the day the light came on. On December 31, 1879, in the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb, American inventor Thomas Alva Edison lit up a street in Menlo Park, New Jersey. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company ran…
The Bible never says, “Be loud and know that I am God.” Nope, it says, “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). Still is the antidote to stress. Stress is a primary trigger of addiction. Few things are a worse enemy than stress. According to the Center for Disease Control, stress can…
Moments after President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., his body was carried across the street to the Petersen House. The Petersen were out of town at the time, but theirs was the closest place Lincoln’s people could find with a bed. It was in that bed that the president drew…
It’s one of my 100 Recovery Rules. Addiction cripples, but secrets kill. Dr. Alex Lickerman, the author of The Undefeated Mind, writes, “Deciding to not reveal a hurtful secret is usually easy while deciding to reveal it is hard. But if it’s a secret you’re withholding from someone with whom you’re intimate, it represents a…
Over the last 50 years, a few baseball players have stood out as the very best pure hitters of this era. I’m talking about Rod Carew, Kirby Puckett, and Pete Rose. But don’t forget about George Brett, who came the closest to hitting .400 of any hitter since Ted Williams. Brett was known for his…
What if God said something 16 times? I bet you would take notice. Well, he did. Sixteen times, Jesus said something like this: “He that has ears to hear, let him hear.” Here’s just one example: “My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to…
“And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger” (Luke 2:7). Today, across the globe, hundreds of millions of us will sing this familiar refrain: “Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head.”…
Tomorrow is the Big Day, defined by four things: food, football, family, and faith. Especially faith. Seven hundred years before the first Christmas, the prophet said this: “But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be…
If you want to know what kind of person you will be tomorrow, ask yourself one question. What am I feeding my mind today? The apostle advised, “Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk” (1 Peter 2:2). You can’t control what goes on around you or what happens to you. But you do get a…