When it comes to measuring progress in your faith, it’s important to measure not just what you do but HOW you act. You can do the things that are involved in practicing your faith, like worshiping, prayer, studying the word, but do you find yourself displaying more patience? More compassion? More empathy? Greater selflessness? Perhaps …
Measuring Growth in Parenting
How do you measure progress as a parent? What does getting better at parenting look like? My personal opinion is that growing as a parent means growing with your child (or children). If you think about it, the relationship between a child and the parents is one in which the child is constantly seeking more …
Measuring Growth in Marriage
When my wife and I were engaged and doing premarital counseling as an investment in the journey we were about to embark on together, we were introduced to The 5 Love Languages, a book by Gary Chapman. We still refer to the five love languages as a way to put action behind our intentions of …
Measuring Growth in Stress Management
How can we measure what it means to be less stressed? How do you know if you’re doing “better” at managing stress? Well, because it’s such a subjective thing, and because you can’t really control how stressed you are, I’d offer that our actions, decisions, and mindset are the things that we can alter to …
What to Measure to Improve Nutrition Habits
The common refrain in improving your nutrition is typically centered around your calorie intake as if that single thing is the end all be all in weight loss. Well, in some ways it is, actually. But there’s more to your diet and nutrition than just the amount of calories you consume. Ten calories from fat …