1: “It’s harder to confess in areas where I am proficient,” Terry Looper writes in his book Sacred Pace: Four Steps to Hearing God and Aligning Yourself With His Will.

“If I’m already pretty good at something, I get in this mindset that I don’t need the Lord,” Terry observes. “I may not even think about Him when troubles arise, simply because I’m a pro at this; I can … continue reading

1: You have a decision to make.

What’s your natural instinct?  Speed up?  Get it done?  Move forward?

Terry Looper suggests a different path. “Instead of going faster, as we’re inclined to do, the goal is to learn to adopt a slower pace.”

What should be your goal? To get neutral.  “Where you desire God’s will over your own,” Terry writes in his book Sacred Pace: Four Steps to Hearing … continue reading

1: Chris Voss and the FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit were stuck.  

They were five hours into a negotiation with bank robbers who had taken three hostages at a Chase Bank in Brooklyn.  

The year was 1993.  The problem?  They were limited by the negotiating approach that hostage negotiators were using at the time, Chris writes in Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It.  

“We … continue reading