Executive Coaching

Please note I am not another self-help Guru. I am not Tony Robbins or Dr Phil nor do I have their hair. LOL I am not into New Age mantras disguised as Christian theological motivational material that is rotted and rooted in the false gospel of health and wealth. The question is are you doing what you should be to honor God with your suffering, your talents, or career and family? Per Romans 3, we are all sinners with original sin and in spiritual depravity in need of redemption and the salvific grace of God though the vicarious suffering, death and resurrection of Christ. We all need to lay down our arms and ask for his grace and repent. We don’t come to God to become better or good. No we become better and good because God comes to us. My theological grounding is Biblical yet logical. True success is possible but is not about you. It’s much more robust and exciting.

Rather we should seek to intensify this longing and nourish it with whatever will provide the deepest and most enduring satisfaction based on our strengths and deepest longings. “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

The Gospel is overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel. In other words, the chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever” It is my intention to stress to you that God is my treasure, not the gifts of God. Holy Spirit seeks to transform the heart so that ‘the Almighty will be your gold and choice silver for you.” (Job 22:25)’ Or, to put it positively: the pursuit of happiness is a necessary part of all worship and virtue. In other words, the chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever John Piper, John Desiring God: Meditations Mediations of a Christian Hedonist. (Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1996).

We do that through our responsibilities to serve others through our gifts, talents, time, and our careers. Life is truly 10% what happens to us and 90% what we do about it.(Yes there are some exceptions but these exceptions are not as popular as we would like to believe they are. For every man or woman who finds an excuse to give up and fail, another man who had very similar circumstances gets up, wipes the sweat and blood away and tries again and succeeds. And that is done by pursuing our responsibleness, regardless of how we feel on a surface level. Jordan Peterson said it best: “You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued. You may therefore have to conduct yourself habitually in a manner that allows you some respect for your own Being—and fair enough. But every person is deeply flawed. Everyone falls short of the glory of God. If that stark fact meant, however, that we had no responsibility to care, for ourselves as much as others, everyone would be brutally punished all the time. That would not be good. That would make the shortcomings of the world, which can make everyone who thinks honestly question the very propriety of the world, worse in every way. . . . Pick up the cross of your tragedy and betrayal. Accept its terrible weight. Hoist it onto your shoulders and struggle impossibly upward toward the Kingdom of God on the hill. The alternative is Death and Hell.” ~ —Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos