Calibrate Life & Spiritual Leadership

Calibrate Life & Spiritual Leadership episodes:

• 09.19.2020

  151- Grieving the Death of “Normal”

  We’ve heard people talking about a “new normal” or “when things get back to normal.” It occurred to us that sometimes “normal”  gives way to a new reality full of purpose, hope, and opportunity. Having lived through a deep grief process, we’ve simply recognized...

  
• 04.25.2020

  150 – The Power of Saying “Yes” to Adversity

  Embracing adversity, being willing to say “yes” to the tough stuff gives us new lenses to see things differently, it exercises atrophied muscles needed for new adventures and callings, and it deconstructs our inferior plans to make way for God’s...

  
• 04.16.2020

  149 – Reflections on Living, Leading, and Loving at 60

  On David’s 60th birthday, his journal entry included 7 things he will do in the next 20 years based upon lessons learned in the previous 20. In this episode David and Donna talk about reflections on joyfully living, leading, and...

  
• 04.08.2020

  148 – Leading in Crisis: Eight Actions of a Leader in Times of Crisis

  Those we lead have the opportunity to see who we really are when we lead them in and through a crisis. Our heart, our character, our resolve, our faith, our love, and our motivations are all revealed. In episode 148 of The Calibrate...

  
• 04.03.2020

  147 – Leading in Crisis: Spirit-Empowered Leadership

  If God has positioned you as a spiritual leader, he will also empower you to serve and lead. In this episode we are going to talk about the mantle and anointing that comes with God’s call and the empowerment of the Holy...

  
• 02.12.2020

  146 – Overcoming Shiny-Object Syndrome

  You can do anything you want to do but you can’t do everything you want to do. Shiny-object Syndrome is the urge to chase and engage things that get your attention. The problem is, there are too many opportunities, too...

  
• 01.24.2020

  145 – Putting the Margin Back into Our Lives

  Margin is the blank spaces on a document that defines its borders and makes it readable and functional. We need margin in our lives. It is the spaces, the blanks, that make everything else work. REST, health, well-being, effectiveness and...

  
• 01.16.2020

  144 – 2020 The Pursuit of REST

  We’ve declared our 2020 to be the year of learning to REST again. The “gold” of our lives comes from the ability to rest in the Presence of God, learning to zone down, learning to listen. In this episode we...

  
• 11.08.2019

  143 – Sacrifice: How Do You Know When it’s Not Enough?

  How do you know when you aren’t sacrificing enough? In last week’s episode we discussed how to know when we are sacrificing too much out of the wrong motivation, and this week we look at the other side of the...

  
• 10.31.2019

  142 – Sacrifice

  Life is simply full of sacrifices. As a matter of normal course, we often give up something we care about or love to gain something we care about or love more. Sacrifice embraces change and transition as we let go...

  
• 10.11.2019

  141 – You Really Can See Your Vision Turn into Reality!

  Your actions, habits, and practices accomplish the things in your heart. Spiritually minded people are good at experiencing God, but often, not so good at obeying God. Obedience always translates into actions, and if you have a dream or an...

  
• 10.03.2019

  140 – Reckless

  Today’s topic is a little controversial, even to me, but we think it is on target. It’s foolish to do something negotiable without counting the cost. It is foolish to NOT do something non-negotiable whether you have counted the cost...

  
• 09.20.2019

  139 – Bandwidth

  Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. It has also come to be used as a term referring to the mental, physical, emotional, intellectual, and even spiritual capacity required to...

  
• 09.20.2019

  Bandwidth -139

  Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. It has also come to be used as a term referring to the mental, physical, emotional, intellectual, and even spiritual capacity required to...

  
• 09.13.2019

  138 – How to Recharge, Re-fire, and Replenish When You Are Drained

  We can feel drained, rested, or energized in each of our four capacities: physical, emotional, intellectual or spiritual. In this episode we discuss how to refresh, re-fire, and replenish those four capacities and how to stay full of life and...

  
• 09.06.2019

  137 – Joy is About Contentment “Right Now”

  Living joyfully is about finding contentment right now. Can we just decide to WANT to be where we are right now? Can we just decide to cherish the uniqueness of this day and this moment? Can we slow down enough...

  
• 08.30.2019

  136 – How to Love Doing the Stuff You Don’t Love

  I heard someone say the other day, “you have to love what you do if you want to be good at it.”   Living out our great God-adventure often involves doing things we’d rather not do. So, how to come...

  
• 08.22.2019

  135 – Standing in Spiritual Warfare

  Spiritual warfare is a real. Often, life’s obstacles come from our stupid choices or uninformed decisions, but if you are attempting obedience, if you are attempting to follow a bold God-path, if you yield yourself to be a part of...

  
• 08.15.2019

  134 – Hiraeth: Homesick For Something That No Longer Exists

  Hireath is an old Welsh word describing a feeling of homesickness for something that no longer exists. In the grief journey, in major life transitions, and in almost every pursuit of the great adventure, this is a feeling with which...

  
• 08.09.2019

  133 – Orchestrating Life-Giving Relationships

  For a relationship to be nurturing, life-giving, and active, it has to bring some value to all of the participants. The most valuable value is love, friendship, and mutual companionship. But, particularly of those of you who orchestrate relationships, in...

  
• 08.01.2019

  132 – Persistence is the Prerequisite to Victory

  Persistence is necessary to the fulfillment of any mission. Talent, genius, education, and even spirituality is not enough in and of itself to be successful in your mission, the prize goes to the persistent. In this episode we talk about...

  
• 07.25.2019

  131 – Six Things You Must Be Willing to Do Before You Can Embrace YOUR Great Adventure

  Having let go of a lot of significant things about our former life, and having made an ongoing decision to step into a new life, new adventures, and new focus, we’ve found these 6 things to be true and necessary...

  
• 07.18.2019

  130 – How Do You Know if An Open Door is the Right Door?

  How do you know when an open door is the right door? Sometimes we have to wait so long and opportunities are so hard to come by that when we have an opportunity we feel we should seize it. In...

  
• 07.11.2019

  129 – Mission drift will take you places you don’t want to go, and how to avoid it

  Mission drift is when you unintentionally broaden your focus and start moving toward things you you never intended to pursue, your life travels the path of least resistance, and you end up where you never planned or wanted to go....

  
• 07.04.2019

  128 – Why it is Important to Model the Way

  Spiritual leaders model the way. We model expectations and the pace for those we love and lead. In this episode we discuss 5 things we must model to those we love and lead.  Continue to read the article/episode notes… Why...

  
• 06.27.2019

  127 – Being and Becoming a Transformational Servant Leader

  Spiritual leadership is about being and becoming a transformational servant leader, following the example of Christ. Leadership isn’t just about leading, it is about serving and encouraging positive change and spiritual empowerment in the live of those we love and...

  
• 06.20.2019

  126 – Ten Pointers for Dealing with Criticism

  If our focus is trying to avoid dealing with criticism we will miss the mark and fail accomplish much of significance. We are going to get criticized often. In this episode we give 10 our our pointers for dealing with...

  
• 06.13.2019

  125 – Rising Above the 4 Types of Criticism

  In leadership, sometimes we are givers of healthy criticism, sometimes we are recipients of healthy and sometimes unhealthy criticism. Dealing with and working through critical points is a component of conflict management and leading a healthy team. In the next...

  
• 06.06.2019

  124 – Recovering From Our Mistakes

  I’ve made a lot of mistakes in every area of my life, but it’s not whether or not you make mistakes, because you will, its how you handle them and recover from them. In this episode we talk about a...

  
• 05.31.2019

  123 – Seven Practical Journaling Pointers

  Journaling is a spiritual discipline and a very important part of a leader’s calibration. In this episode of Calibrate Life we discuss some practical pointers for journaling and a journal template. Continue Reading for the article and episode notes… Seven...

  
• 05.23.2019

  122 – Running at a Good and Healthy Pace for a Long Distance

  Setting and maintaining the right pace is critical to your spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical health. In this episode we discuss running at a healthy pace. Look around. Re-set your pace. Look at the distance. Look at the season. Take...

  
• 05.16.2019

  121 – Lessons From the Great Adventure: It’s Mostly About YOUR Transformation

  The lesson and the miracle of your great adventure is the transformation God works in YOU on the journey. I’m not even sure the most important thing is getting to the top of the mountain. I think the most important...

  
• 05.09.2019

  120 – Lessons From the Great Adventure: The “Push” Solidifies Your Resolve

  When you get to a tough place you have to push, but the push is important because it builds a necessary resolve within you. “Pushing” through the hard places solidifies your resolve to fulfill your mission. In this episode of...

  
• 05.02.2019

  119 – The Great Adventure: It Will Seem Impossible!

  Great Adventures involve the impossible — otherwise it wouldn’t be a great adventure. Trusting God for the impossible stretches us to new levels and intensifies our trust in God. We cannot let the things that seem impossible to us keep...

  
• 04.25.2019

  118 – The Great Adventure: You Will Have a Learning Curve

  Every great adventure has a huge learning curve. Be ready to take it on, don’t be intimidated by it, because it’s only going to make you grow and make you better. In this episode of Calibrate Life, we discuss lessons...

  
• 04.18.2019

  117 – Three Vital Relationships Every Leader Must Have: Someone You are Lifting

  Every spiritual leader is responsible to develop the Timothies in their lives. Spiritual leaders have an obligation to lift those they love and lead. The very definition of “Spiritual Leadership” implies the function of helping people discover God’s purpose and...

  
• 04.11.2019

  116 – Three Vital Relationships Every Leader Must Have: A Friend to Walk With You

  Every healthy and growing spiritual leader needs three specific types of relationships in their lives. We need a “Paul” who will mentor us, a “Barnabas” who will encourage and challenge us, and a “Timothy” into whom we are investing as...

  
• 04.04.2019

  115 – Three Vital Relationships Every Leader Must Have: The Mentor

  Every leader must have three vital relationships to succeed. We need a “Paul,” someone to mentor us. We need a “Barnabas,” someone to walk with us in honesty as a friend and accountability partner. We must find “Timothies,” those in...

  
• 03.28.2019

  114 – Who Are Your People?

  We have to find our people, our tribe, because the mission to which God has called us requires a team. For us it is about the people with whom we will partner in a big way or a small way...

  
• 03.21.2019

  113 – Learning the Unforced Rhythms of Grace

  You are not the only one who often feels overwhelmed, it goes with the calling to Spiritual Leadership. I’m not sure the overwhelming feeling toward an impossible and undoable task ever goes away, but the rest comes in trusting God...

  
• 03.14.2019

  112 – The Vision Funnel: Moving Your Big Picture to Reality

  A vision funnel will keep you focused on converting the big picture things in your life, the things important to you because they are things God has called you to do, a vision funnel will help you convert your “big...

  
• 03.07.2019

  111 – Can’t Get Your Work Done? Routines Increase Effectiveness

  Routines increase your effectiveness. We make hundreds of decisions a day, but if you pre-decide the things you do over and over again, you will conserve a lot of energy you could devote to other things, you will not suffer...

  
• 02.28.2019

  110 – Eight Commitments for Raising Spiritually Healthy Kids

  Here are eight things we've learned about raising spiritually healthy kids. Being a spiritual leader does not automatically make us better parents, in fact it brings with it challenges that other parents sometimes do not have, but hose challenges are...

  
• 02.21.2019

  109 – Pushing Through the Pain to Realize the Promise

  Life and leadership is a cycle of embracing a passion, pushing through the pain of reality, and then realizing the promise. There is always tough stuff to press through. How do we keep the joy and enjoy the journey while...

  
• 02.14.2019

  108 – Seven Healthy Marriage Practices

  Here are seven practices for a healthy marriage. Your marriage is your most important relationship and it is a gift from God, and like every other relationship, it requires an investment. In this episode of Calibrate Life, David and Donna...

  
• 02.07.2019

  107 – Guarding Our Marriage Circle

  Guarding our marriage circle is protecting the relationship between spouses. We see our marriage relationship as a circle, with only the two of us and God present. We try to keep things that don't belong in that circle of relationship...

  
• 01.31.2019

  106 – I Have Decided… All In

  Until we have decided what we really do believe and live life "as if" we believe it, we will not make great progress toward our great adventure or the life we really want to live. Sooner or later we have...

  
• 01.24.2019

  105 – Why Passion is Absolutely Essential to Leadership

  Passion is essential to our leadership, it is our ignition, it motivates us to press through difficulties to lay hold of the things for which we are passionate. Passion encourages us to press past obstacles and difficulties to achieve the...

  
• 01.17.2019

  104 – The Importance of Celebrating Wins

  Celebrating wins encourages the heart because it emphasizes the reality that we really are moving forward, When life is just one long string of events, those events run together without separators. Celebrating wins emphasizes that we really are going somewhere...

  
• 01.10.2019

  103 – Discovering the Unanticipated Consequences of Your Mission

  Someday, at the end of your journey, you will look back at the mission you passionately pursued, and you will realize there were a lot of unanticipated consequences. In this episode we discuss some things we are learning about how...