The following is a true story and an excerpt from my book, Redefine Rich. Gary Weller has every reason to pin blame. He was an active, athletic man, full of life and energy. The majority of his adult life was spent engaging his passions, football and people, earning him the affectionate title of Coach. Coach was well-known and well-respected in his community, as he spent fourteen years running the sideline, coaching his players as the head football coach of Pine Forest […]
What Are You Seeking? My 2nd principle on the journey to living richly is Invest in Others. Hopefully, this story will shed light on the power that simple principle carries. Back in 2010, my wife and I engaged with a ministry through our church, Port City Community Church, called HOPE 127. At the time, we really didn’t know any details, just simply responded to a call to start giving to the ministry. We were told that the gift would be […]
“God cannot tempt to virtue as we do to vice. He wants us to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there, He is pleased even with our stumbles.” ~ C.S. Lewis The quote above gives me incredible hope for all of us. C.S. Lewis is saying that God doesn’t tempt us to good, to a virtue; He doesn’t work that way. He just desires for us to […]
Humble Yourself With Confidence The phrase almost sounds like a contradiction: Humble yourself with confidence. How could you be confident and humble at the same time? The world would tell you that you can’t have both as it pits them in competition with one another. However, there is a special blend of confidence and humility that is required to obtain the richness we desire. Our society, our culture, has little room for humility. In a world where everyone is out to make […]
I’ve made it my passion to chase the idea of redefining what it means to be rich. What would it look like to live richly? I share with you simply to invite you along on the journey. I perceive a society consumed with the pursuit of richness or maybe better stated, riches. We trouble and toil daily, working away at this pursuit, being handed currency that leaves much easier than it was earned. Profit margins and bottom lines drive the […]
My supreme goal is to be a great father. But that is a tricky goal to achieve. What does it mean to be a great father? In fact, the realization of that goal may only be determined after I am gone, when my children reflect on my life and say, “He was a great dad.” As I think about it, that’s very selfish of me, actually. What I really want to to raise children that become great. And not just great kids, […]
What do you wrestle with? For most of us, we have something that is an opposition in our lives; something we toe the line with daily. You may automatically know what it is. However, whether we consciously realize it or not, most of us wrestle with the word can’t. The tricky thing with can’t is that we usually fail to recognize our struggle with it. We often accept things as we believe them to be and refuse to push any […]
We get busy in life. Matt reminds us of why we dedicate ourselves to something other than ourselves.
- Robert Wagnon, CEO, Republic State Mortgage
