Mark Batterson has become on of my favorite authors. If he writes a book, I read it. I have to admit, out of all the books he has written, this is probably the one I was least looking forward to. Why? It was a book on prayer.

J. Oswald Sanders, in his book Spiritual Leadership, said, “If you want to humble any man, ask him about his prayer life.” That statement always challenges me because if any area of my walk with God is lacking, it’s my prayer life. I’ve never been a “great prayer”. However, it is an area that I am determined to grow in, so I read this book.

It was excellent. Mark really challenged me to recognize the importance and power of prayer. My biggest takeaway is that my prayer life is related to how I view God. If I really believe God is God, why wouldn’t I spend hours pouring out my heart to Him? Too often, I’ve prayed vague prayers and expected God to bless me as I pursue what’s in my heart in my own strength. I am done with living that way. After reading this book, I am determined to take advantage of the incredible gift of prayer. I hope you’ll read this book and do the same.

(more…)

I watched this video a few weeks ago and I’ve gone back to it several times. It fires me up! I hope you’ll take a few minutes to watch it! Later in this post, I embedded the original videos of the motivational speech by Eric Thomas.

(more…)

One of my goals this year was to find a to-do list system that works for me. I spent a lot of time reading about productivity as well as task and project management. I finally found a system that works for me!  Chalene Johnson’s book, Push, along with Brian Tracy’s book, Eat that Frog helped me immensely! In this post I’ll share with you the system that I found works for me, I hope it will help you!

(more…)