I make mistakes and I’m flawed, but I’m not confused. I do know what team I’m on.
by Michael Holland Your potential is determined by your inner circle: those closest to you. Basically, your success as a man builds from the strength of the immediate team that surrounds you. This team can enable you and make you stronger or hold you back. You need strong, dedicated, forward-thinking, and positive players [...]
by Michael Holland As my friend Jerry says, you can have a bad day or bad month or even a bad year, but it’s pretty hard to have a bad 5 years. And what is important in life is not individual days or months, but your trend line. And the measure of your success [...]
By Michael Holland In the midst of chaos as a man/father/husband, you are primed to act. Your "action" differs by season of life but the essence of the action remains the same: solve the problem in front of you as quickly as possible. But that's not what great men/fathers/husbands do. Great men/fathers/husbands lift up out [...]
By Michael Holland It's the little things that help a marriage keep it's momentum. Each morning, I walk my wife to her car as she leaves for work. It's a rather small ritual and could be seen as insignificant in the hectic world in which we all choose to live. At times I feel [...]
By Michael Holland In pursuit of my self-described Christian Businessman PhD, I started on a quest in early 2010 to read 100 books to increase my knowledge, exposure and intellect. I achieved that goal in late 2012 and now, each year, I strive to read as many books as possible while also listening [...]
By Michael Holland In pursuit of my self-described Christian Businessman PhD, I started on a quest in early 2010 to read 100 books to increase my knowledge, exposure and intellect. I achieved that goal in late 2012 and now, each year, I strive to read as many books as possible while also listening to [...]
by Michael Holland We had family in over a weekend recently for one of my son’s plays. One of my twenty-something nieces was having trouble with her busted-up iPhone, so I offered up one of our old ones as a replacement. To her query regarding payment, I went old school, saying, “one day I’ll call [...]
by Michael Holland As we walk through each day, we make what seem to be minor decisions and take small actions to solve whatever problems might arise. These decisions and actions in and of themselves are not wrong. But we should be asking ourselves if these decisions and actions are wise for us. Being wise [...]
by Michael Holland The perspective a man has on his season of life can yield tremendous insight. What season are you currently in? What about other men in your life? What season of the year do you feel best represents the current season of your lives? Typically, we’d think that the answer would correlate to [...]
by Michael Holland A couple days before Christmas, I told my daughter and her husband, who was home on leave from the Marines, that I had quest for them: they were to go to a local Walmart or Target to deliver 7 envelopes. I explained that I had put some cash in each envelope which [...]
