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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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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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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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Talk to Strangers. They Might Have Candy.
Why wouldn't I talk to strangers more? What happens when I do? How can I get better at it? It might change how I live.
JKB
Jul 20, 20214 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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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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When COVID Hits Home
Several months ago, Katie (my wife) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (commonly known as COVID-19). She self-quarantined in our home,...
JKB
Dec 3, 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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