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How Can I Lead When I’m Not In Charge?
Genuine influence can come from a subordinate position, because genuine influence is the trust someone places in you regardless of title.
Joseph Barkley
May 24, 20232 min read
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13 Nuclear Questions
Some of your greatest opportunities in your life, love, and career are waiting on the other side of some great questions.
Joseph Barkley
Oct 27, 20226 min read
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The Real Costs of Quiet Quitting
Quiet Quitting" steals from the bottom line & your life. But I believe what it's telling you about your future is worth investigating.
Joseph Barkley
Oct 5, 20226 min read
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We owe it to ourselves to stop hurting ourselves.
How about seeing yourself as someone worth sacrifice, worth discipline, worth a great night’s sleep?
Joseph Barkley
Jul 15, 20228 min read
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The Ultimate Guide to Never Being Fooled Again.
In an age of intense disinformation, how can you get news, statistics, and other information to serve you instead of enslave you?
Joseph Barkley
Jun 28, 20225 min read
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Reasons to Stay in a Toxic Relationship
By too quickly labelling a friend, romantic partner, or coworker as "toxic", we miss out on intimacy, profitability, & personal development
Joseph Barkley
Jun 21, 20224 min read
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How Trying to Be Nice Hurts People
"Nice" families are ruled by secret agendas. "Nice" companies fail to adapt. "Nice" artists paint by numbers. "Nice" leaders stay stuck.
Joseph Barkley
Jun 2, 20222 min read
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You Are Busy. And You Like It.
Your busyness is a fortress you’ve built around a life you don’t want to give up.
Joseph Barkley
May 17, 20223 min read
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Frog Futures
We can learn that hard feelings are an expected part of any journey we want to take in life, love, and career.
JKB
May 10, 20223 min read
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How to finally "Arrive"
Most people spend life under the assumption that if we work hard enough, we'll finally "arrive".
JKB
Apr 19, 20222 min read
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The Anatomy of Trust
We can be too careful with our trust, and if we trust fewer people than we could, we miss opportunities.
JKB
Apr 12, 20222 min read
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I Get So Emotional, Baby
You cannot become spiritually mature without also becoming emotionally mature.
JKB
Apr 21, 20212 min read
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Introducing: The Mask Generation!
My recent COVID conversations have evolved from “I wonder how the pandemic will impact jobs, church engagement, real estate, the economy,...
JKB
Mar 1, 20213 min read
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Why We Must Scrutinize Our Leaders
People don’t trust perfect (because it must be hiding something). People trust real.
JKB
Feb 22, 20213 min read
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Happy New Year and Good Riddance, amirite?
January 1 always promises, if only superstitiously, that "old is gone, new has come" in some unique way. With the year we've all just...
JKB
Dec 31, 20202 min read
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Lament your way through Christmas
Lament realizes that we won't always see what we're becoming and what God's doing because we wouldn't have wanted it to happen this way.
JKB
Dec 17, 20202 min read
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The Efficiency of Joy
A key indicator of health is how difficult it is to make you happy.
JKB
May 26, 20203 min read
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What face masks can't protect us from
We might need added precautions— not against COVID-19— but another sinister condition.
Some are dangerously susceptible to "Soundstupiditus"
JKB
Apr 25, 20203 min read
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You Have to Change What You Believe About Stress.
Whatever level of stress you have, it’s actually not embedded in a feeling, it’s a belief that you’re living out.
JKB
Mar 30, 20204 min read
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