So, I guess after that intro, it’s only fitting for me to give you an app recommendation on how to keep track of Streaks. I’ve been using this app for a while. What I love about it is that it gamifies things I want to track. Things I currently have on mine are Sleep 7 Hours, Take My Medicine, Walk 10k Steps, Read Bible/Pray, Read for 30 Minutes. It tells you your longest streaks and even a calendar view of when you missed. You can customize it to whatever you want to track and for Health stuff (like steps, etc), it does it automatically since your phone knows how many steps you’ve taken. Love it! For less than a price of a cup of coffee, you can have an app that help build habits and routine. Check it out!

I just got back from visiting Ecuador last week. I was able to visit our Stadia Compassion Church plant there and meet the pastor and volunteers. But I also had the incredible opportunity to visit my sponsor child, Thais. As you can see, she is beautiful. All I can say is, it was an emotional and life-changing experience where I feel like I now have a powerful connection with her and her family that will just grow. She lives with her grandmother, mother, sisters and her niece (read no male figure). It brought tears to my eyes when Thais’ grandmother said to me as I was leaving, “Gracias Padre” (Thank you, father). 

But as I was there, I was reminded of how important the letters are to them. Story after story about how God used letters from sponsors around the world to bring hope, healing and encouragement to these children. Please take a few minutes today and write to your sponsor child. It will change the trajectory of their life … and maybe even yours.

I loved this article! Now, I know you might be a little skeptical about a 5 step list to become the best at what you do because it sounds too simplistic. But, I think these are actually helpful and I resonate with all of them. That’s probably because many people fall into similar traps. Read this and there may be one thing that you take from it that you can focus on that could result in you becoming the best at what you do!

Please, please, please, for the love of better photos on social media and for your personal digital archive, watch these short 30 sec videos on how to take better photos/videos. I love the design and branding on this page too! But I think it will be super helpful for anyone, whether you have an iPhone 7 or not. Here’s to better photos!

This sounds almost counterintuitive at first but it makes a lot of sense. We tend to feel like we need to work on something until we get stuck and then move on to something else. But we actually don’t realize that we’re stuck until we’ve been stuck for a while (especially when it comes to creativity). This approach sounds helpful. If you don’t do this intuitively, try it!