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# DarenWride.com

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- [Lighting Setup for Talking Head Youtube Videos](https://darenwride.com/2309/lighting-for-talking-head-videos/) - Check out the gear I use for talking head video, along with a few lighting tips.
- [Release Now on Kindle](https://darenwride.com/275/release-now-on-kindle/) - I'm very happy to announce that Release: A Wilderness Adventure of the Soul is now available for Amazon Kindle. This has been a long time coming, and now with plans for my new book DNA of a Christ Follower to go on Kindle as well, I decided setting up Release on Amazon would also make
- [DNA of a Christ Follower Now on Audible!](https://darenwride.com/2107/dna-of-a-christ-follower-now-on-audible/) - Get it for free with a trial here: DNA on Audible (*Note that this is an affiliate link and I will get a small commission if you make qualifying purchases after clicking the link.) For more info on the book, go to my DNA page Here.
- [Increased Focus](https://darenwride.com/44/increased-focus/) - As you can see if you poke around this site at all, you can see that a lot of what I am currently doing is shifting my work to allow more time for writing. My consulting contract is slightly less than full time, 37.5 hours, which as anyone in their own business knows is quite
- [Living Within Your Limits](https://darenwride.com/196/living-within-your-limits/) - There are a couple areas where I have taken flak related to my book Release. Sometimes it has happened after a talk and sometimes I get an email about it. Both areas are in the segment I refer to as Harnessing Your History. The first area has to do with dealing with pain from the
- [InBox Zero](https://darenwride.com/200/inbox-zero/) - InBox Zero- Level 1 Achieved For the better part of this year I have been moving toward a more paperless office, which I suppose is a less-paper office. It started with my foray into Evernote and the purchase of my truly beautiful ScanSnap iX500. The goal was to reduce the great volume of paper files
- [You Need Mentors](https://darenwride.com/286/you-need-mentors/) - When we think of goal setting, life planning, personal vision- all those sorts of things- we often think about them in very personal, often private terms. And, in many ways these are very personal issues. However, you may recall (assuming you have read it) that the last step of the last phase of the Release
- [The Two Step Online Ministry Plan](https://darenwride.com/1664/the-two-step-online-ministry-plan/) - Whenever a crisis hits we get bumped into survival mode. But then the new context is normalized and we begin to get our bearings. As soon as you move beyond survival mode and into ministry mode you need to develop a ministry plan for the current context. You will likely need to learn some new
- [What Exactly IS a Disciple of Jesus Christ?](https://darenwride.com/1823/what-is-a-disciple-of-jesus-christ/) - Last time I talked to you a little bit about this whole idea of ministry amnesty. The idea that we had this window where there was a lot of stress and a lot of change, but we had some freedom to focus in on new techniques and tactics and tools and software and things. But
- [How to Have a Productive Afternoon](https://darenwride.com/170/how-to-have-a-productive-afternoon/) - I'm a morning person. I get 50-100% more done in a morning hour than in an afternoon hour. My thinking is clearer and I am more creative. My second best chunk of time is often from 6-9 pm in the evening. But afternoons can be a challenge, and from what I have seen this is
- [Principles for Personal Evangelism](https://darenwride.com/1346/principles-for-personal-evangelism/) - Today I'm sharing a final excerpt from the personal evangelism crash course. Today we're going to look at some some observations from the way Jesus dealt with people who were spiritual outsiders, as well as I'll just fire off kind of a machine gun method, some important little principles and things we need to know
- [Practical Use of Current AI Tools](https://darenwride.com/2256/practical-use-of-current-ai-tools/) - Remember the early days of the internet? The constant "Did you get my email?" calls and the excitement around search engines? AI is currently at a similar stage and it's poised to become increasingly ingrained in our lives, acting as a powerful toolkit rather than a sentient being. So what is the key takeaway? Don't
- [How to Take a Personal Retreat](https://darenwride.com/261/how-to-take-a-personal-retreat/) - Get Your Retreat Planner HERE One thing that becomes obvious to anyone who tries to work through the goal-setting and life-planning exercises mentioned in my book Release is that it takes time. Un-rushed time. And, as it says in the book's Foreword, "In much of the world today there is no rarer commodity." One of
- [Is Trading an Option for Bivocational Ministry?](https://darenwride.com/2204/is-trading-an-option-for-bivocational-ministry/) - I've been in bi-vocational ministry for over a decade now, which means in addition to doing pastoral work ministry work of some kind, I'm also doing other things to round out the income and fill in the rest of the gaps. I've done quite a few different things over the years to do this. I've
- [Afternoon Energy Hack](https://darenwride.com/2175/afternoon-energy-hack/) - I hate the use of the word hack for everything under the sun, but I'm going to use it here anyway: an afternoon energy hack. I've worked this issue over many different ways in my life. For instance, I know enough not to go to a Chinese buffet for lunch on a day when I
- [Praying Over Your Year](https://darenwride.com/2171/praying-over-your-year/) - Today I have some thoughts on how to plan your year, but with a little bit of a twist. If you follow my Priority Pastor podcast or my content at all you know I'm fairly big into planning and goal setting and quarterly planning, all that kind of stuff. But one of the most strategic
- [In Pain But On Mission](https://darenwride.com/2158/in-pain-but-on-mission/) - Today I want to share with you a teaching I did for 12Church ministry on the whole issue of pain while we're engaged in ministry. How do we continue in ministry when we're experiencing pain? How do we carry on in ministry when surrounded and immersed in pain, especially working with people in pain? How
- [Five Commitments of a Disciple Maker](https://darenwride.com/2146/five-commitments-of-a-disciple-maker/) - Today I'm sharing with you content I made recently for 12Church, which is the new venture alternative church model we're a part of. This training really is about the five commitments that are actually required to be an effective disciple maker. It's based on the learnings from our past year of more focused disciple making,
- [Pastors Are Quitting](https://darenwride.com/2141/pastors-are-quitting/) - I was just looking at some of the data from a couple different Barna surveys of pastors from last year and where they're at in relation to their ministry. They asked the question, have you given real serious consideration to quitting being in full-time ministry within the last year in January of 2021 and 29%
- [Delete The App](https://darenwride.com/2136/delete-the-app/) - For a few days last week my phone was driving me crazy. It would be good most of the day and then every evening it froze up on me. I could reboot it and it would work for a couple minutes, then it would freeze. I couldn't figure out what was going on and it
- [Saving 4 More Hours A Week](https://darenwride.com/2130/saving-4-more-hours-a-week/) - I made two decisions this morning right at the start of my day that are going to save me four hours a week, as a conservative average, for the rest of the year. To me that's just amazing. When I figured out what those two decisions were going to do in my life, the decisions
- [60 Second Morning Routine Tweak](https://darenwride.com/2126/60-second-morning-routine-tweak/) - I'm not sure if it's because it's the beginning of a year or what the deal is, but I've been a little bit focused on tweaking my routine. The last podcast had to do with an evening routine adjustment I've made, and this one has to do with the morning routine. Last time I talked
- [The Internet Timer Trick](https://darenwride.com/2119/the-internet-timer-trick/) - I want to highlight something today that I have probably mentioned in the past along the lines of productivity and energy management, but something that I've revisited here early in the new year. It was one of our better household habits over the last year or so and we're actually enhancing it a little bit.
- [Profit First For Churches](https://darenwride.com/2114/profit-first-for-churches/) - The book Profit First by Mike Michalowicz has been revolutionizing the way small business owners manage their finances. In this episode, Daren speaks with bookkeeper Graham Utz about church financial management and how Profit First can be applied to the way churches manage their finances.
- [Sermons vs Sermonettes](https://darenwride.com/2092/sermons-vs-sermonettes/) - I've been thinking lately about a quote from John Stott in his book "Between Two Worlds" where he makes the comment that sermonettes produce Christianettes. It's one of those classic books that you just never get rid of. If you Google that quote, you find all kinds of articles and discussions about what is a
- [The Church Vision Hamster Wheel](https://darenwride.com/2073/the-church-vision-hamster-wheel/) - Your church doesn't need a vision statement. In 12Church, we are figuring out how to be and make disciples in this time and this place, which includes of course, being all in on mission with Jesus. I really wish that's what all churches were obsessing about rather than going through all of these exercises, trying
- [Spiritual Direction - Kenda Reimer](https://darenwride.com/2004/spiritual-direction-kenda-reimer/) - Today I've got an excerpt of an interview I did with Kenda Reimer on the Disciple Making podcast. Kenda is a spiritual director in Squamish, British Columbia and the excerpt I'm playing here is one that is tied to spiritual direction and Christian leadership. I think you'll find it interesting and might get you digging
- [Pastoral Migration or Exodus?](https://darenwride.com/1998/pastoral-migration-or-exodus/) - I am trying to discern and see whether we are facing a pastoral migration or a pastoral exodus as we move into the fall of 2021. Now we have been expecting a bit of a migration because there was a lot less pastors moving in 2020 due to how things were restricted and slowed down.
- [Post Pandemic Pastoral Priorities](https://darenwride.com/1984/post-pandemic-pastoral-priorities/) - I'm here today to riff on some post pandemic pastoral priorities. This is in a way, a continuation or an expansion of the last podcast, which was too many weeks ago. Really boy, I've been slacking here in the summer sun. I did one on re-entry resolutions, just talking about how this was a unique
- [Personal Evangelism: Questions for Normal People](https://darenwride.com/1988/personal-evangelism-questions-for-normal-people/) - Download the Questions Here: Questions for Normal People
- [Reentry Resolutions](https://darenwride.com/1974/reentry-resolutions/) - I've been thinking a bit about re-entry resolutions. We don't get this opportunity very often. We get an opportunity every new year or really any day we want, but typically every new year or maybe on your birthday when you do some evaluating and resetting of your direction, your habits, and your goals. But this
- [How Power Messes You Up](https://darenwride.com/1956/1956/) - I saw an article the other day from The Atlantic titled "Power Causes Brain Damage: How leaders lose mental capacities--most notably for reading other people--that were essential to their rise." Here is the opening paragraph. "If power were a prescription drug, it would come with a long list of known side effects. It can intoxicate.
- [Six Ways for Pastors to Get Paid](https://darenwride.com/1953/six-ways-for-pastors-to-get-paid/) - I heard a great bit of teaching by the amazing Dan Sullivan, who is probably the preeminent business coach in the world. The names of the people he associates with or has taught is a who's who list of those who have done big things and doing big things in the world right now. In
- [Introducing 12Church](https://darenwride.com/1946/introducing-12church/) - Today I'm very pleased to announce that 12Church, a long time theoretical concept, has finally come to some sense of fruition. At least the seeding of it has happened in that we have officially started our alternative model of church based on missional communities, with some other little tweaks to the set-up. The basic idea
- [Disciple Making](https://darenwride.com/1936/disciple-making/) - In my last post I mentioned that I had started another podcast called Disciple Making and I thought what I would do today is simply share the first episode of that with you. What you'll hear is a bit of the story of my co-host's journey of disciple making, which I think you'll find interesting,
- [Prolific Quality Output](https://darenwride.com/1926/prolific-quality-output/) - This post is commemorating the 300th episode of my podcast Priority Pastor. I was toying with several different options and I'll explain all the different factors in a while. I was considering making this the last one of this podcast, making a big shift in the podcast itself, just mixing it up in some way,
- [Measuring Ministry Success](https://darenwride.com/1916/measuring-ministry-success/) - Today I'm just going to read the table of contents of an old book. I'd be surprised if I've never referenced this book in the past because it's a classic, incredibly helpful, encouraging book in all areas and all times and places for pastors. It's a book called "Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome" by
- [It's Not Your Job](https://darenwride.com/1919/its-not-your-job/) - Just the other day I was listening to a pastor who is a Christian leader who I respect greatly, but he said something that made me kinda sit up in my seat and question what I heard. I came to the conclusion that I had to disagree with him, and in disagreeing, I realized what
- [Is Church Broken?](https://darenwride.com/1910/is-church-broken/) - The question of the day this, is the way we do church broken? Is your church broken? And by broken, I mean, is it accomplishing the purpose for which it is intended or is it doing something else? I had a call the other day with a coach/consultant and I was talking about the challenges
- [The Art of Plain Talk](https://darenwride.com/1906/the-art-of-plain-talk/) - Way back when I was a young pastor, I came across a book called "The Art of Plain Talk" by Rudolph Flesch. You might recognize the name Flesch from hearing of the Flesch Kincaid scale for reading levels that is used by speakers, copywriters and others to check the level of their communications. It's also
- [Who Are The Fish?](https://darenwride.com/1900/who-are-the-fish/) - The big question of the day is who are the fish? Who are you fishing for? I was going to call this topic, who are you hunting, but the appropriate bit of biblical metaphor is fishing. He calls us to fish for people, not hunt for people though. Perhaps if Jesus was in a different
- [You Won't Like The Answer](https://darenwride.com/1894/you-wont-like-the-answer/) - Today's topic is a question: what is the greatest challenge, the greatest need of churches, large and small right now? What is the thing that is bottle-necking, hindering, or in some way slowing down churches of every size from moving ahead? The answer is not anything external, like technology, a pandemic or a culture that's
- [Unprecedented Pivot to the New Normal](https://darenwride.com/1890/unprecedented-pivot-to-the-new-normal/) - Do you have a growing list of words you never want to hear again? This past fall, I very quickly ran out of patience for the words "pivot" and "unprecedented" and "new normal." These words have gotten old pretty quick partly from over-use, but also because when reflecting on life and history and the nature
- [Plans and Interruptions](https://darenwride.com/1885/plans-and-interruptions/) - This is just a short thought at the start of a new year. Probably by the time you see this it will at least be the middle of January of 2021, but I think the thought is relevant no matter when it is. Here's the thought: sometimes ministry, sometimes life is about a plan; making
- [Young Pastors Take More Hits](https://darenwride.com/1879/young-pastors-take-more-hits/) - Today I want to highlight the fact that young pastors take more hits. I was commenting to somebody a while ago about a young pastor we both knew who was really quite gifted, capable and doing some amazing things in the church was just being dogged at every turn. Individuals inside the church seemed to
- [Swing Thought For 2021](https://darenwride.com/1870/swing-thought-for-2021/) - I just had the privilege a couple of days ago on the first Sunday of the year to preach my first live sermon since mid-March of 2020. Actually, yesterday I did two prerecorded messages at two different churches. I spoke live at Fort St. John, British Columbia which is a church we did a transitional
- [Lessons From Nightmare Mode](https://darenwride.com/1866/lessons-from-nightmare-mode/) - This is the final instalment of 2020 on the afternoon of December 31st. My virtual assistant says she is able to get it out today. I was actually contacted her to see if she was able to do it hoping she'd say no, but when she said yes, that took care of my final excuse
- [Nightmare Mode](https://darenwride.com/1858/nightmare-mode/) - As I record this I'm beginning nightmare mode. Nightmare mode is a concept I got off a fellow I listen to on YouTube from time to time, Alex Becker, who is a bit of a nut and is a software and internet marketer. He has some interesting things to say about productivity, dopamine addictions, social
- [How Much Truth Can They Handle?](https://darenwride.com/1850/how-much-truth-can-they-handle/) - I've been mulling a bit lately on T-units, also known as truth units. It's a concept I learned from Sunlife many years ago. The idea being that when you provide a teaching in a ministry setting, you are communicating a unit of truth. A good talk or presentation really has one focal point. A lot
- [Of Course It's a Tough Job](https://darenwride.com/1846/of-course-its-a-tough-job/) - As I continue to wade through my notes from the past, I came across another talk full of nuggets. This is a talk from John Ortberg way from the Global Leadership Summit of 2002. Now this is a talk he gave on the seduction of a leader and there were some great one-liners in there
- [Are You Being True To Yourself?](https://darenwride.com/1840/are-you-being-true-to-yourself/) - We've come to the end of another transitional role in the community after being here almost two years. We'll have been here 23 months when all is said and done. In preparation for a move we've been shedding, whatever we can shed and I've been continuing to scan documents. I've dropped another file box worth
- [Morning Routine](https://darenwride.com/1836/morning-routine/) - One of the things that has helped me maintain at least some sense of level headedness in unsettled times of this past year has been a fairly consistent morning routine. It's not a rigorous morning routine, but it's a pattern of the way I do my first part of the day that doesn't really change
- [Podcasts Worth Checking Out](https://darenwride.com/1829/podcasts-worth-checking-out/) - Welcome back to the Priority Pastor blog post. I'd like to highlight for you some of the podcasts I listen to that I think are worth checking out, especially if you are in ministry, though they're not all ministry podcasts. Overall, I subscribe to 33 different podcasts. Some I listen to every single new episode
- [Ministry Amnesty:  Your Window Is Closing](https://darenwride.com/1815/ministry-amnesty-your-window-is-closing/) - It is time to get back to business. We figured out how to do ministry online and offline and with various restrictions. We figured out new systems and new tactics, and we're looking at new software, new hardware, cameras and all kinds of things. But I need to tell you that the amnesty period is
- [Memo to a New Pastor](https://darenwride.com/1811/memo-to-a-new-pastor/) - Today I've got a short memo to a new pastor. I'm in a transitional role right now as a transitional pastor and we've had a successful candidating event, and have a called pastor who is starting in just a few weeks. As we typically do in a transitional role, I will overlap with him for
- [Navigating Big Change](https://darenwride.com/1803/navigating-big-change/) - Today we did something that always marks a change of season for us here in the beginning of October. Today we put the canoe away. Typically when canoeing season starts in the spring, we bring the canoe out from wherever it's stored, usually in the backyard somewhere, and we put it on the vehicle where
- [The Right Way to Cook Kraft Dinner](https://darenwride.com/749/the-right-way-to-cook-kraft-dinner/) - In honour of Canada's 150th, and by popular demand, once published in a different context, here is The Right Way to Make KD Kraft Dinner is a much maligned food product, loved by some and mocked by many. In my observation, a big part of the problem comes from the fact that often when people
- [The Stress Is Real](https://darenwride.com/1796/the-stress-is-real/) - There's been a lot going on, not just in the world, but in our lives and our roles. I'm involved in the search process, transitional process, for two churches. One has now called the candidate, which we are very excited about. Their start date is November, so we're in the wind down stage here. Typically
- [My Covid 15 Pounds](https://darenwride.com/1788/my-covid-15-pounds/) - I've been hearing a lot about the whole COVID 15 thing, which is not about the virus itself, but about the weight gain that a lot of people are having during the slowdown. I think summer has helped a lot. My own COVID 15 story has to do with a loss of 15+ pounds which
- [How to Use a Time Windfall](https://darenwride.com/1784/how-to-use-a-time-windfall/) - Let's think for a couple of minutes about what to do if you get a time windfall. If all of a sudden due to some circumstances, job change, a move, a pandemic or something, you all of a sudden have more free time. One of the principles I want to bring to bear is what
- [The Surprising Trait that Wins Over Pastoral Search Teams](https://darenwride.com/1780/the-surprising-trait-that-wins-over-pastoral-search-teams/) - I have learned a lot about how churches search teams and elders boards look for new lead pastors. In my role as a transitional pastor and transitional coach, I've been able to see the other side, not just the side of the pastor applying, but the side of the search teams, boards of elders and
- [Paddle Around Lake Windermere](https://darenwride.com/1776/paddle-around-lake-windermere/) - A video summarizing our July 25 paddle around 3/4 of Lake Windermere. Nothing fancy- just using my old point and shoot camera. But even then the beauty of the day comes through. Take a break and enjoy this little journey.
- [Pastors and Addictions](https://darenwride.com/1760/pastors-and-addictions/) - About a month ago, I got a call from a friend. We had actually overlapped in one church where I served in a transitional role. He was a youth pastor when I got there, but within about two or three months, he went off to plant a church. Unknown to me at the time, he
- [So My Holidays Are Toast](https://darenwride.com/1766/so-my-holidays-are-toast/) - I have reluctantly concluded that my summer holidays are toast. They have officially vaporized. They are not going to happen. And I'm okay with that. We're actually in a pretty nice place but here, here's why they vaporized. I'm currently serving as a transitional pastor and my basic contract there is up to 120 hours
- [Video Sermons: How to Prepare, Record and Produce Your Sermons](https://darenwride.com/1729/video-sermons-how-to-prepare-record-and-host-your-sermons/) - Since I'm currently involved in two different churches, delivering seven video sermons per month between the two, recording and producing them completely on my own, I'm making twice as many mistakes as most pastors when it comes to virtual preaching. But I'm also learning twice as fast (I hope!) By the grace of God, I
- [Church Growth, Health...or Survival?](https://darenwride.com/1735/church-growth-health-or-survival/) - I came across a quote by a long-time pastor that was in a newspaper and it said this: “In the first five years of ministry I had a sign on my desk that read Win the world for Christ. My second five years of ministry I put up a new sign that said Win one
- [Self-Care Tips for Stressful Times](https://darenwride.com/1723/self-care-tips-for-stressful-times/) - What do you do to protect yourself to function at a sustainable level of time and energy when things are unsettled and stressful? This is a season of unsettledness in the world and in the churches I'm serving in as well. There's a lot of unsettledness in search process and other churchy kind of things
- [The Pivot No One Is Talking About](https://darenwride.com/1714/the-pivot-no-one-is-talking-about/) - If there's one word that I find more irritating than covid right now, it's the word pivot. Everybody's pivoting. They're pivoting from offline to online and physical to virtual, and all other kinds of pivots. It's all the same thing, really. Before this whole crisis where pivot became the most popular word next to covid,
- [A Theology of Crisis](https://darenwride.com/1697/a-theology-of-crisis/) - Today I'm going to share with you part of a larger interview I did with Stuart McKnight of theologynow.ca. We covered a lot of ground in the interview and this little segment had to do with the question I asked him about a theology of crisis, specifically a theology of Covid and how we handle
- [What's Your Default Hammer](https://darenwride.com/1686/your-default-hammer/) - There's an old saying that says, if your only tool is a hammer, you're going to see every problem as a nail. What is your hammer? What is your nail? What is your default setting when you're in crisis or under stress? Some kinds of personality and leadership tests seek to discern in part what
- [Five Habits For Pastors (or Anyone) Working From Home](https://darenwride.com/1678/five-habits-for-pastors-or-anyone-working-from-home/) - I'm going to share with you, very quickly, five excellent habits for pastors or anybody working from home. In fact, they work even if you're not working from home. These really do help you get the most out of your day and help your productivity, your energy level and everything else. We'll walk through in
- [Scary Question for Ministry Leaders](https://darenwride.com/1670/scary-question-for-ministry-leaders/) - A few days ago I got the tires on my pickup changed over. And since the tire shop I like to use doesn’t have a branch in the community in which we live, I drove an hour and half down the highway to the nearest shop. But it’s a beautiful drive, mountains on both sides
- [How Many Pastors are Done?](https://darenwride.com/1656/how-many-pastors-are-done/) - Here’s a question I’ve been mulling on lately: When the dust settles from all this covid craziness, what percentage of pastors, who were solidly employed at the start of 2020, will have been laid off permanently and be unable to find church-based employment for a year or more? I will share my prediction in a
- [PASTORS Working from Home](https://darenwride.com/1649/pastors-working-from-home/) - This isn’t a post about productivity or generic work-from-home tips. It’s specifically for pastors who suddenly find themselves working 100% from home. Here are some pastor-specific ideas about working from home in these days. First, it’s important to use our time well, wisely, but I would suggest using it in a different manner than we
- [Online Church Is Different](https://darenwride.com/1624/online-church-is-different/) - Just a quick note, an observation, maybe a memo to a few churches out there and that is this: Online church is not the same thing as a Sunday morning worship service. I think we better identify that and put a stake in the ground and recognize that moving our services online is not really
- [Preaching and Leading in Times of Crisis](https://darenwride.com/1607/preaching-and-leading-in-times-of-crisis/) - Hi, welcome to Priority Pastor, this is Daren Wride. I'm recording this on March 12th, 2020, as the Corona virus is starting to look very serious indeed. There are not a lot of voices anymore saying it's not a big deal. People are recognizing it is indeed a big deal. Just how big a deal
- [The 8020 of Leading in Crisis](https://darenwride.com/1640/the-8020-of-leading-in-crisis/) - I want to take a look at the 8020 of disruptive, crisis leadership. Or maybe it's better stated "the 8020 of leading in disruption and crisis". 8020 Pastors and Priority Pastor are about crafting a focused, sustainable life and ministry. When it comes to disruption and crisis, if you’re a leader and you want to
- [Liver Cleanse, Soul Cleanse](https://darenwride.com/1619/liver-cleanse-soul-cleanse/) - Did I tell you about this liver cleanse my wife put me through a while ago? I think it was based on this book "The Metabolic Reset Diet" and the whole idea is to just get your liver cleaned out because it's so critical in how you process your food, storing fat and dealing with
- [Church History Drill Down](https://darenwride.com/1615/church-history-drill-down/) - I'm about to engage with a new church in a transitional coaching role. One of the things out of the gate we'll be doing is assessment and the history of the church is a big part of that. I've started making requests for the documentation I need and I thought I'd just pass on the
- [Road Trip Packing List](https://darenwride.com/1599/road-trip-packing-list/) - I'm just packing right now for a rather extended road trip. I'm headed to a church for weekend where I'm starting a transitional coaching role, preaching at the services and then carrying on to a pastor’s retreat for a few days. We're going be on the road for about a week, staying in two different
- [Evaluating an Employment Offer from a Church](https://darenwride.com/1593/evaluating-an-employment-offer-from-a-church/) - Today I want to talk to you about evaluating a pastoral job offer or a letter of offer to be a pastor of some kind in a church. I've been asked about this a lot lately. Many of my ministry friends are in transition and have asked me about evaluating their offers, and in some
- [Time-Saving Tech Upgrade](https://darenwride.com/1588/time-saving-tech-upgrade/) - I recently did something that cost me less than $150 and probably saves me 30 to 60 minutes a week. It's something I'd been thinking about for a long time and finally got around to it. Like a lot of things that I put off doing, I asked myself, why didn't you do this sooner?
- [What is Your Mars Colony?](https://darenwride.com/1573/what-is-your-mars-colony/) - A friend on a mastermind call last week asked me an interesting question. He asked, "What is your Mars colony?" He asked that question after I had shared some of my projects, plans and multiple ministry roles I'm involved in. He shared an anecdote from the life of Elon Musk and how he makes decisions.
- [When the Lead Pastor is Broken](https://darenwride.com/1558/when-the-lead-pastor-is-broken/) - In my previous post I talked to you about a crazy dysfunctional staffing situation from the perspective of being a lead pastor. Well, here's the flip side. What if you're that staff person? What if you're a staff person and your lead pastor is the crazy, messed up, dysfunctional one? What if the lead pastor
- [Dysfunctional Church Staff Situation](https://darenwride.com/1553/dysfunctional-church-staff-situation/) - I just got off the phone with a young pastor friend, a mentee, who finds himself in a rather crazy situation. He's dealing with a staff person who was present in the church before he became the lead pastor there. This administrative staff person has no real job description. They kind of wrote it themselves
- [Your Church Governance's Achilles Heel](https://darenwride.com/1548/your-church-governances-achilles-heel/) - Do you understand the weakness of your church's particular polity or governance methodology? I did a board training recently and showed a little chart talking about three different generalized types of church governance: congregational governance, centralized governance, and representative governance. I talked about where the authority is, with examples, and talked about strengths and weaknesses
- [Common Church Elder Board Mistakes](https://darenwride.com/1537/common-church-elder-board-mistakes/) - I'm working on a board training that's coming up for a group of churches. I just built the slide the other day titled "Common Governance Bloopers" containing some nuggets I thought I should share, so here's some of those bloopers. I titled this post something a little bit more direct because having bloopers might make
- [Rationing Your Creative Energy](https://darenwride.com/1523/rationing-your-creative-energy/) - I've spoken in the past in different places about time management and energy management, which is something I borrowed from the book "The Power of Full Engagement" where it says the purpose of time management is indeed energy management. As you get older, you understand more and more that if you're not careful, you can
- [Breaking Out of the Afternoon Doldrums](https://darenwride.com/1519/breaking-out-of-the-afternoon-doldrums/) - I've had a pretty productive morning where I did a webinar and related work, and then dealt with some emails. Into the afternoon I continued with this sense of productivity until about mid afternoon when I felt myself start to drag. I knew from experience I was at that stage where I was going to
- [Breaking Indecisiveness](https://darenwride.com/1512/breaking-indecisiveness/) - Indecisiveness. Information overload. Paralysis by analysis. Do you ever find yourself struggling with any of those things? Do you find yourself seized up, not knowing what to do next? From time to time in my life, in my ministry, in my online work and in different areas, I've found myself in thestate where I come
- [Getting Refocused](https://darenwride.com/1506/getting-refocused/) - I'm currently writing this on Labor Day, September second here in North America, and a holiday long weekend. I just finished my regular holidays and actually went back in the office a little bit last Thursday to meet with my associate who has taken off on his own holidays. Then I got ready for Sunday,
- [Planning Your Year](https://darenwride.com/1170/planning-your-year/) - Just wanted to highlight PPX53 which is about planning your year. You might also want to check out PPX52 which is about starting your year. It gives you some probing questions to ask and get the wheels turning. These two episodes are kind of a two-parter. Watch the "How to Plan Your Year" Webinar Here
- [Retirement Isn't The Endgame](https://darenwride.com/1497/retirement-isnt-the-endgame/) - I've noticed that for a lot of people, specifically I mean followers of Jesus Christ, it seems like retirement is the end game. That is the focus of life. That's the preoccupation, that's the plan. That's the destination. There is lots of debate as to whether or not retirement a biblical principle, which I don't
- [Time To Say No](https://darenwride.com/1491/time-to-say-no/) - My hope and dream is to help you craft a focus, sustainable life and ministry, and I'm trying to do that myself and stay in that stage of sustainability. I just recently did some inventory of the months ahead, looking at all of the different tasks and potential commitments and options. I came to the
- [Don't Shoot For The Moon](https://darenwride.com/1487/dont-shoot-for-the-moon/) - I came across a little quote recently from a fellow named James Friel who is a high end internet marketer and consultant. He gets a lot done; a very productive person. But he made the following observation. "For a long time I heard that we should all shoot for the moon and have big, hairy,
- [An Observation About Stress](https://darenwride.com/1479/a-short-observation-about-stress/) - How do we deal with stress? If we're honest, we need to recognize that stress is actually about what's going on in the inside, not what's going on in the outside. Certainly there are things on the outside, external issues, challenges, problems at work and family that cause or generate stress. But the stress actually
- [The Power of Simplicity](https://darenwride.com/1472/the-power-of-simplicity/) - When I left full-time vocational ministry about 10 years ago, I left probably more than half of the books on my shelf in the office. When I thought about what I wanted to keep and what I really didn't need, it was pretty easy to jettison 50% of the books I'd been hauling around. Most
- [Follow...or Not](https://darenwride.com/1461/follow-or-not/) - In John Chapter 6, Jesus gives some teaching that is described by many of his disciples as a hard teaching and his disciples started grumbling. By disciples I'm not talking about the Twelve, but about the larger masses. It said that at this time, many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.
- [Get Some Sleep](https://darenwride.com/1450/get-some-sleep/) - I just got off a call with a friend who is in business and does some online work, as well, and we talked about bottlenecks and decisions that need to be made to move ahead in life and ministry. He's currently facing a bottleneck a lot of us face, especially as we get a little
- [Processes vs People](https://darenwride.com/1445/processes-vs-people/) - I'm continuing in my new transitional role here in a situation where the long-term pastor has left and we're currently in the assessment phase. I usually carve out the first three months as the assessment phase which looks at the history, the current reality, the demographics of the church and the community, and the ministry
- [Starting A New Ministry](https://darenwride.com/1439/starting-a-new-ministry/) - I'm about to start a brand new transitional ministry going to a church where a long time pastor is no longer there and the church decided they wanted a time of intentional transition before going to search for the new pastor, which is wise. Whenever there's been a long-term pastor and if there's been a
- [Business vs Ministry](https://darenwride.com/1433/business-vs-ministry/) - One of the Internet marketing fellows I follow online made this comment: He said that starting a business is the best personal development course you'll ever take. And he talked about the stuff you learn and who you become, the pressures you face, the problems you solve and overcome, the goals you accomplish- all that.
- [What Is Your Trajectory?](https://darenwride.com/1421/what-is-your-trajectory/) - Good day. Usually I record in my office on a nice little USB microphone right next to the computer, but today in preparation for a bit of a road trip where I might not have access to my nice little setup, I'm doing a podcast through my phone. I actually did a test a few
- [A Simple Strategic Church Budget Process](https://darenwride.com/1393/a-simple-strategic-church-budget-process/) - Good day! This is Daren Wride and welcome to Priority Pastor. I'm starting to do some work for a webinar on church budget process, which is maybe more exciting than it sounds. And I know that you might listen to this podcast, not catch the webinar or getting it the Priority Pastor where the webinar
- [The Main Thing](https://darenwride.com/1375/the-main-thing/) - Welcome to Priority Pastor. This is Daren Wride. When it comes to priorities, what is most important for pastors, for Christian leaders, for followers of Jesus Christ. There are few passages that answer the question more directly than Revelation chapter two, the first seven verses which is the letter to the church in Ephesus. I've
- [Starting Your Year](https://darenwride.com/1366/starting-your-year/) - This Daren Wride and welcome to Priority Pastor Well how do you plan a year? There are so many variables looking ahead; three hundred and sixty-five or sixty-six days, 52 weeks, twelve months. Planning can be a little bit presumptuous and we often try to plan in a way that makes us think we're in
- [Consumer or Producer?](https://darenwride.com/1357/consumer-or-producer/) - This is Daren Wride and welcome to Priority Pastor. How often do you hear an idea that just kinda roots in your head it's like a little thought bomb that changes your thinking or shifts your thinking in some small, but permanent way. I had one of those moments a while ago and I came
- [Trust Busters & Trust Builders](https://darenwride.com/1349/trust-busters-trust-builders/) - Welcome to Priority Pastor, this is Daren Wride. I'm going to talk today about trust busters and trust builders. A question we find helpful to ask going into transitional situations where there's often been a crisis of some kind or some kind of awkward pastoral transition, is to ask the leadership both, formal and informal-
- [Preparing for a Lead Pastor Job Interview](https://darenwride.com/1338/preparing-for-a-lead-pastor-job-interview/) - Hi this is Daren Wride and welcome to Priority Pastor. Got a text yesterday from our friend who is interviewing for a lead pastor role. He's pretty excited about it, as am I. I think he's been shortlisted and they're just checking out some more details about him. And he wanted to know if I
- [How to Start Your Day](https://darenwride.com/1324/how-to-start-your-day/) - Today's post is an excerpt from a training I did on a "Recipe for an Epic Day". Basically some principles and ideas on how to have a highly productive, satisfying day. That training is part of the Pastor's Productivity Pack which includes How to Plan Your Year, How to Plan Your Week, and Efficient Sermon
- [Three Words to Amp Up Your Communication](https://darenwride.com/1315/three-words-to-amp-up-your-communication/) - Hi I'm Daren Wride and you are listening to Priority Pastor. Thanks for jumping in. I try to maintain a certain ratio in these podcasts of every five podcasts. I like to have three focusing on personal development one focusing more on the organizational side of ministry and one I allow myself to drift into
- [What Makes a Good Day Off?](https://darenwride.com/1308/what-makes-a-good-day-off/) - Have you had one of those days lately? You know one of those days that when it's done it just feels so good? It feels like you did what you were supposed to do. You didn't do anything you shouldn't have done. It's just completely satisfying and you can lay down on your pillow and
- [Symptoms of a Contagious Follower of Jesus](https://darenwride.com/1294/symptoms-of-a-contagious-follower-of-jesus/) - A couple of weeks ago I spoke on the DNA of a Christ follower trait, the trait of being evangelistic. Someone who indeed proclaims the Good News. This is obviously a key trait. It is an important part of being like Jesus joining with him in his seeking and saving of the lost. ^ Listen
- [How to Sell...an Enema Kit?](https://darenwride.com/1196/how-to-sell-an-enema-kit/) - If you can sell an enema kit to a farmer in front of a bunch of his peers, you can probably sell anything. But you need to makes sure you do this one thing. A big lesson in communication and persuasion from a farm auction.
- [If This Was Your Last Year](https://darenwride.com/1179/if-this-was-your-last-year/) - A few thoughts on what I would do if I knew this was my last year...and should maybe do anyway!
- [High Leverage Leadership Moments](https://darenwride.com/1174/high-leverage-leadership-moments/) - High leverage leadership moments, events and decisions which will shape the life and ministry of a church for good or for ill, sometimes for years to come, occur frequently. Pastors and other leaders need to take these moments seriously, prepare for them and "Be all there" in order to ensure that the the result is
- [What Are You Really Up To?](https://darenwride.com/1163/what-are-you-really-up-to/) - Episode 20 of the PPX Podcast shares what I am up to with Priority Pastor, PastorX and my other online & offline activities. It's a bit of a look behind the scenes at my motivations and plans.
- [Trauma, Therapy and Healing](https://darenwride.com/1159/trauma-therapy-and-healing/) - Here's a short podcast I did on the topic of trauma and healing, followed by the TedX video from my friend Eric Kuelker which I referred to.
- [Manipulative, Insecure Christian Leaders](https://darenwride.com/1133/manipulative-insecure-christian-leaders/) - Christian leaders who think they are beyond criticism, challenge or even evaluation are a danger to...well, pretty much everyone and everything. Here's one of my short podcast episodes where I riff on this issue a bit.
- [Memo to Lead Pastors](https://darenwride.com/1236/memo-to-lead-pastors/) - I'm a lead pastor. I have many friends who are lead pastors. And there's something I just need to get off my chest. Here's an episode from my podcast (with the edited transcription below) "Memo to Lead Pastors." Hi this is Daren Wride and welcome to Priority Pastor. I've got today just a quick memo
- [Slaves Who Think They're Free](https://darenwride.com/1259/slaves-who-think-theyre-free/) - Here's a transcript of the above podcast episode: Welcome to Piority Pastor my name is Daren Wride. I just came across a quote that was actually mentioned by a person in a podcast I listened to just the other day. A quote from Harriet Tubman, who was a lady who born into the slavery back
- [A Simple Way to Improve Your Speaking](https://darenwride.com/1218/a-simple-way-to-improve-your-speaking/) - Shorter, MOre Focused, Communication I recently started a mentoring relationship with a young pastor. We'll call this fella Benji because that is in fact the name of his dog. So I'm sure he'll be good with me referring to him as Benji. He must like the name. Benji is a wonderful fella. He's got solid
- [Addressing Spiritual Challenges](https://darenwride.com/1212/addressing-spiritual-challenges/) - Discerning and Addressing Spiritual Challenges Part 2 Once you become aware that there is a spiritual component to a challenge you are facing, how do you then address it? The short answer is “Prayer.” My wife is an intercessor and the foundation of her praying is scripture. She is constantly in the Word looking for
- [Discerning Spiritual Challenges](https://darenwride.com/1205/discerning-spiritual-challenges/) - Discerning and Addressing Spiritual Challenges, Part 1 You can’t solve a leadership problem simply by praying moreYou can’t solve a spiritual challenge with leadership savvy or charisma alone. We know that every challenge is a “spiritual” issue in the sense that there is a spiritual interface or component to everything. For example, money is a
- [Cross Over Day](https://darenwride.com/1177/cross-over-day/) - On November 24, 2019 I was 54 years 288 days old. That was the age my father was when he passed away. So I decided to take a little retreat, heading out to a cutline where I knew there was a nice place to sit and maybe start a fire. Here's a video of a
- [Quit Being Baited...](https://darenwride.com/1078/quit-being-baited/)
- [Murtle Lake Canoe Trip](https://darenwride.com/1055/murtle-lake-canoe-trip/) - Some shots from our Murtle Lake canoe trip, 2013. Hoping to get back there shortly!
- [Using Evernote for Task and Time Management](https://darenwride.com/244/using-evernote-for-task-and-time-management/) - I began using Evernote last February. The initial purpose was to move towards a paperless office and have a better way of storing and accessing the thousands of quotes, stories, illustrations and files that I use in my writing and speaking. EN has proven to be the answer for this type of data storage. I
- [Netflix Free Zone](https://darenwride.com/1003/netflix-free-zone/) - It's not often that one change will positively affect your life on multiple levels. After a two week trial run of Netflix on Friday evenings only, multiple books have already been read, productivity has been heightened, evening snacks eliminated, flab diminished and sleep improved. We are now Netflix free. Even if we rent a movie
- [Ode to Netflix](https://darenwride.com/974/ode-to-netflix/)
- [I Didn't Marry My Best Friend](https://darenwride.com/887/i-didnt-marry-my-best-friend/) - I didn't marry my best friend. I married a girl I really liked Who really liked me. We seemed to have complimentary values and agreeable personalities. There was an hormonal magnetism. But despite what we might have said at the time, I didn't know her and she didn't know me. We jumped through the hoops
- [Best Marriage Books](https://darenwride.com/896/best-marriage-books/) - These are some of the best marriage and relationship books we have come across over the years. I've recommended them all, but we most often give away copies of Love & Respect. Click on any of the pictures to learn more. Written from a Christian worldview, but accessible to anyone, this book brings many to a
- [Missing the Tent](https://darenwride.com/879/missing-the-tent/) - During my first three years out of high school, I spent several months each winter living in a tent. One winter I did a solid three months, January-March with no days back in town. The tents, usually 14x16 feet in size, made up the camps from which we cut survey lines or did geophysics for
- [An Alternative to Pooled Ignorance](https://darenwride.com/860/an-alternative-to-pooled-ignorance/) - There's an old(er) guy at the coffee shop with whom I often indulge in solve-the-world's-problems bull sessions. He knows a lot about a lot of things, but as with any far-ranging morning chat with the boys, topics always come up that some or all of us know nothing about. Most of us just bluff and
- [Slow Learner](https://darenwride.com/837/slow-learner/) - Same old mistake. Fought with a technical issue for half a day without making any progress. Finally, just before bed, I posted a job on Upwork asking for someone to either do what I needed to do or simply consult with me. Next morning, Joe from Austin Texas who charges $53 per hour messaged me
- [Thanks For Your Loyalty](https://darenwride.com/875/thanks-for-your-loyalty/) - Every now and then I get a call from my cell phone provider thanking me for being such a great customer and offering me something in return for my loyalty. It always includes me giving them more money. Late last year I received an email from them with the same “thanks for your loyalty” message
- [Sirius Observations](https://darenwride.com/814/sirius-observations/) - So, the new pickup has 6 months of free satellite radio. We’ve driven over 4000 km in it over the past three weeks, giving me ample time to play around with the channels. Here’s what I’ve learned so far: 1. Satellite radio is a bit like cable TV: It’s possible to have scores of channels
- [What You Need to Do](https://darenwride.com/830/what-you-need-to-do/) - A multiple Grammy award winning solo musical artist once let slip that the reason he did a certain album was so he'd be free to do the kind of music he really wanted. "I had to do that...so I could this." It's not that the make-money album was a bust. The related performance drew one
- [Congratulations on Your Debt](https://darenwride.com/823/congratulations-on-your-debt/) - The salesman said it. The sales manager said it. The finance lady said it. Even the insurance company rep said it. “Congratulations on your new vehicle.” I wondered if it was part of the post-sale script, part of the plan to eliminate buyer’s remorse. “Yeah, whatever,” I thought. “Thanks,” I said. Congrats seems to make
- [Mortality Part 4 and Final I Hope](https://darenwride.com/819/mortality-part-4-and-final-i-hope/) - This series of “mortality” posts was already in the planning stages when the following happened over the span of several months: 1. A friend of 30 years, just a few years my senior, committed suicide. 2. A former co-worker and neighbor, just a few years my junior, didn’t wake up one morning. 3. A friend
- [No Longer Interested](https://darenwride.com/805/no-longer-interested/) - For years, when asked to list my interests, I've said something like "Hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, canoeing, cross country skiing." So far this year I've discovered that two of those are not true. Fishing. As we canoe down a river or around a lake, we come across little streams, the mouths of which are generally
- [To Do or Not To Do](https://darenwride.com/800/to-do-or-not-to-do/) - "How many to-do's are on your to-do list?" An innocent enough question. "One hundred and fifty to two hundred," I replied. He laughed out loud and said "That's nuts!" I was doing a Planning and Priorities seminar for a group of Christian ministry leaders, and went on to explain that the point of a to-do
- [Clarity and Control](https://darenwride.com/794/clarity-and-control/) - The desire for clarity is the desire for control. At least for me. And the clarity/control I crave most is for outcomes: I want to control what happens. Which is a recipe for frustration. Because the world is too complex and change is too rapid for any of us to control the outcomes. But I’ve
- [Life, by the Decade](https://darenwride.com/786/life-by-the-decade/) - Just got a crisp little email from my lifelong mentor Bobb Biehl. He summarizes the focus of each decade of life as follows: Childhood = Security Teens = Self 20’s = Survival 30’s = Success 40’s = Significance/Struggle 50’s = Stride 60’s = Strategic 70’s = Succession 80’s = Slippery 90’s = Sleep These one
- [Change the Channel](https://darenwride.com/790/change-the-channel/)
- [Canoes vs Kayaks](https://darenwride.com/776/canoes-vs-kayaks/) - Too Many Kayaks Not Enough Canoes Several times each year when people find out how much Kristin and I canoe they ask why if we kayak (No) and then why not. My stock answer is “You can’t carry a moose with a kayak.” And they always think I’m joking. Kayaks have their place: the ocean,
- [Customer Satisfaction Survey](https://darenwride.com/781/customer-satisfaction-survey/) - The sales person was outstanding- calm, helpful, sensitive to personal space, not at all pushy. The sales manager was a little more aggressive, but still helpful. We bought, and were told we’d be sent a survey from head office. The salesman and franchise we purchased from would appreciate it if we could give the highest
- [More Time or Money?](https://darenwride.com/770/more-time-or-money/) - Do you have more time or money? The correct answer is “money.” Even if your balance is $0. Or -$278,000. Because money is replaceable, time is not. So if you can use money to free up time, it’s often the wisest course of action. BUT, before you can apply this principle strategically, you need to
- [Worst. Gig. Ever.](https://darenwride.com/766/worst-gig-ever/) - The Setup: They wanted a team talk, and my teambuilding keynote was solid and proven. I wanted to do a talk that related to my new book which was more about personal development. But the talk was not as polished as the team talk. But they agreed. The evening before, I had resigned as pastor
- [Saving vs Investing 2](https://darenwride.com/761/saving-vs-investing-2/) - In a recent post I suggested that instead of putting away a few thousand dollars at low interest you might want to write a book. That’s been one of the best investments I’ve ever made, both in dollars and cents and in personal growth. Here’s something else I’ve done that has paid off in both
- [Saving vs Investing](https://darenwride.com/754/saving-vs-investing/) - Came across an article on savings and compound interest. The author’s intent was to encourage savings by showing the power of compound interest. The chart in the article showed how a $200/month investment at 3.5% would lead you to save $24,200 over ten years, and gain an extra $4853 in interest, for a total savings
- [Driving Under the Speed Limit](https://darenwride.com/744/driving-under-the-speed-limit/) - First there was the holiday planned around how we wanted to feel rather than what we wanted to do. Then came the holiday where I chose to drive under the speed limit. The theory was that driving fast was more stressful, and of course more dangerous. As a result, driving just a bit under the
- [Sunk Costs Revisited or The Value of Trust](https://darenwride.com/739/sunk-costs-revisited-or-the-value-of-trust/) - Recently, I posted about some repairs to The Beast, my 2002 F150 pickup. I used the story of a major repair followed by the need for a second major repair as an example of sunk costs and how to decide whether to keep spending or cut your losses. The Beast now has a solid front
- [Ziglar](https://darenwride.com/735/ziglar/) - Back in the late ’90’s I went to a daylong event full of motivational speakers, marketers, health experts and some famous but not so profound individuals who were clearly there for their name recognition, not their content. However most of the speakers were outstanding. One of the highlights of the day was Zig Ziglar. I’d
- [Neil Patel vs Seth Godin](https://darenwride.com/731/neil-patel-vs-seth-godin/) - Two of the many people I follow in the marketing world are Seth Godin and Neil Patel. Both are immensely successful and at the same time perfectly unique. Neil’s blog is a vast catalogue of massive articles which delve deep into various aspects of marketing. They are full of infographics, statistics, examples, and sprinkled with
- [Mortality Part 3](https://darenwride.com/727/mortality-part-3/) - July 2007. My friend Dave had a nagging injury in his arm that didn’t seem to heal. His doctor grew suspicious and he was quickly diagnosed with ALS, Lou Gehrig’s Disease. The average life expectancy from time of diagnosis is two years. Dave made it almost three and a half. The fact that Dave was
- [Jerk-Free Subversion](https://darenwride.com/720/jerk-free-subversion-is-it-possible-to-be-subversive-without-being-a-jerk/) - Is It Possible to Be Subversive Without Being a Jerk? There are some things I want to subvert. Undermine. Overthrow. Replace. But I can’t tell you what those things are as it will make my subversion more difficult. However, I can tell you that I’ve been wrestling with the question of how to be subversive
- [Strategy for an Epic Holiday](https://darenwride.com/709/strategy-for-an-epic-holiday/) - It was a fresh idea: Plan the holidays based not on what we wanted to do, but how we wanted to feel. Easy to define the target: Unrushed, rested, refreshed. Closer to one another. How to pull it off? Short travel days. Loose schedule. Multiple days in the same location. So began the best family
- [Senseless Habits](https://darenwride.com/716/senseless-habits/) - Way back in 1988 Kristin and I worked at a summer family camp helping with recreation for the high school students. Each morning I got up early and went to a trail in the forest that had an old chair parked in a convenient spot. I’d sit and think and read and pray and get
- [West Coast Trail - Canada 150 Tribute](https://darenwride.com/707/west-coast-trail-canada-150-tribute/)
- [Advice to My Younger Self](https://darenwride.com/693/advice-to-my-younger-self/) - Advice to My Younger Self Through the Years or A Few of the Many Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Advice to my 5 year old self: Get along with your brothers. They could become your best friends. Advice to my 10 year old self: Be nice to those girls everyone thinks are ugly
- [Mortality Part 2](https://darenwride.com/699/mortality-part-2/) - Another Reminder of the Ticking Clock In 1994 I was 30, my dad was 54. He passed away that Christmas Eve, almost six years after being diagnosed with malignant melanoma and one year after being surprised by a clean bill of health at his five year checkup. To be honest, 54 still seemed a long
- [How the Like Button Kills Your Brain Cells](https://darenwride.com/686/how-the-like-button-kills-your-brain-cells/) - I first heard the phrase “the tyranny of the Like button” from Perry Marshall. A quick Google reveals the phrase’s widespread use and varying degrees of meaning. Perry’s take was that we all want to say something people will like, and they want to say things we will like. After a while, we’re all trained
- [Teapot Mountain Hike](https://darenwride.com/690/teapot-mountain-hike/) - A friend took me out to Teapot Mtn near Prince George last week and I decided to go back and make a slideshow/video about it. This is a nice short, high-return hike that still gives you a bit of a workout. The mosquitoes can be nasty. I'd suggest hiking boots vs runners. And if you
- [Best Self-Assessment Tool](https://darenwride.com/680/best-self-assessment-tool/) - Over the years I’ve taken two or three dozen different self-assessments, some of them multiple times. Leadership style, learning style, personality, strengths, DISC, Kolbe, Marketing DNA… Many have helped me understand myself better and be more effective in different areas of life. But one assessment stands out as the most helpful one I have ever
- [Mortality Part 1: I Discovered I was Mortal When...](https://darenwride.com/675/mortality-part-1-i-discovered-i-was-mortal-when/) - Labour Day Weekend, 1982. Two weeks earlier my canoe racing partner and I had won our class at the Canadian nationals in long distance canoe racing. We were now in the biggest race in North America, Classique internationale de canots de la Mauricie, aka The Classic, aka Shawinigan. We had a bad start, and got
- [How to Shoot a Moose](https://darenwride.com/671/how-to-shoot-a-moose/) - (But it's not just about moose!)
- [Standup GeekDesk Report](https://darenwride.com/667/standup-geekdesk-report/) - I’ve had my Geekdesk for more than five years now. The positive affect on my health is hard to quantify, but I’m pretty sure it’s more than a placebo effect. My core is definitely firmer (Those are abs you see, not rolls!) and my back is stronger. And what about the hundreds of hours of
- [Sunk Costs](https://darenwride.com/641/sunk-costs/) - My trusted pickup was feeling rather loose on the highway so I took it to my trusted shop. Turned out the front end was in rough shape. Along with some servicing, brakes and odds & ends it was just over $2000. Two weeks later I pulled out from a lunch meeting and the transmission failed.
- [Work Life Balance Question](https://darenwride.com/630/work-life-balance-question/) - In a recent post I mentioned a how an email query about work/life balance turned into a discussion about success. But back to the work/life balance question that started it: “Do you think people who are extremely successful have less work/life balance?” I have a couple thoughts about this question. First, some people who make
- [How a Simple Machine Changed (and probably lengthened) My Life](https://darenwride.com/613/how-a-simple-machine-changed-and-probably-lengthened-my-life/) - I used to be a bit of a napper. Well, that’s not completely accurate: I used to be an habitual napper. I could nap on demand. I could fall asleep on the couch before lunch, after lunch, before dinner, before bed... One day, sitting on the couch at lunch I tilted my head over and
- [Fear-Driven Decision Making](https://darenwride.com/633/fear-driven-decision-making/) - “I have personally seen very successful businesses destroyed by their owners making a sequence of fear-driven decisions. I have seen none destroyed by courage.” -Dan Kennedy Dan Kennedy is a brilliant and very successful direct marketer, famous in both the offline and online marketing worlds. I had the privilege of seeing him live back in
- [How Grandchildren Mess Up Your Life](https://darenwride.com/623/how-grandchildren-mess-up-your-life/) - I once lived with the delusion that when my children turned 18 my responsibility as a parent would drop right off. Not to zero, but dialed way back. Yeah, I know, naïve. Then I thought that once they moved out of the house, and certainly once they were married… But then the granddaughter showed up.
- [Embracing Death](https://darenwride.com/617/embracing-death/) - You do realize the life insurance is actually death insurance? You don’t get paid if you live. The payout comes when you die, and you aren’t the one who gets it! And when someone saves another person’s life, they haven’t actually saved a life, they’ve simply postponed a death. I read about an insurance broker meeting
- [Deadlines are Rocket Fuel](https://darenwride.com/647/deadlines-are-rocket-fuel/) - Brian Tracy refers to “The Law of Forced Efficiency.” Parkinson’s Law states that “Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” I think of it as The Deadline Effect. The best illustration is what happens to our productivity the day or the week before holidays. It takes off! I once went on holidays
- [The Myth of Multi-Tasking](https://darenwride.com/592/the-myth-of-multi-tasking/) - Just saw another one: A job description calling for the skill of multitasking. “We are looking for someone who is a high capacity leader, team player, people magnet, mobilizer, multi-tasker and a great communicator.” Translation: Let us hire you and kill you. While there is some evidence that the female brain is capable of a
- [What is Success to You?](https://darenwride.com/627/what-is-success-to-you/) - I once got an email that asked the question “Do you think people who are extremely successful have less work/life balance?” I replied, “Define successful.” The response focused in on net worth, which is certainly one form of success. And I suppose if we’re honest, money-related success seems to be the one that preoccupies us
- [Sooner Software: Camtasia](https://darenwride.com/609/sooner-software-camtasia/) - Sooner Software = Software I Wish I'd Used Sooner! I have several pieces of software, both online and offline that have become essential to my work. From time to time I plan to highlight one of them. Today’s focus is on Camtasia. This is one I got almost right. That is I started using it
- [Who Are You Online?](https://darenwride.com/387/who-are-you-online/) - I just completed a small contract in which I hired a man from Pakistan via UpWork to do some work on my website. He was fantastic, and did the initial job, which would have taken me two days and it still would’ve been wrong, in 90 minutes. I then decided to do some work on
- [Ten Commandments for Mentoring](https://darenwride.com/305/ten-commandments-for-mentoring/) - I hope you have become convinced through these last few posts that having mentors is an essential part of your personal growth plan. Here are 10 Commandments of Mentoring from Stanley and Clinton in Connecting: The Mentoring Relationships You Need to Succeed in Life: Relationship: You will have differing depths of relationship with your mentors,
- [When We Need Mentors](https://darenwride.com/300/when-we-need-mentors/) - As mentioned last time, mentors are an essential component of long term personal growth. I would argue that most of us need mentors in one or more area of our lives all the time. But, how do you know when and where you need a mentor? You need a mentor when you are plateaued or
- [Why We Need Mentors](https://darenwride.com/295/why-we-need-mentors/) - Why do we need mentors or partners in our lives? We all have down times where we need encouragement and advice. We will all face situations where our knowledge and experience is insufficient. Most people who are successful over the long haul can point to three-ten others who have helped them along the way. The
- [Stop the Craziness!](https://darenwride.com/270/stop-the-craziness/)
- [How to Change Your Life](https://darenwride.com/253/how-to-change-your-life/) - This morning I was reviewing some notes from a talk I heard Henry Cloud give at the Leadership Summit way back in 2005. He was speaking about how to take your good intentions and make them a reality. Among the nuggets: Self discipline is the fruit of other discipline, structure, and processing pain properly We
- [Work Ethic](https://darenwride.com/239/work-ethic/) - I used to think I had a pretty decent work ethic. But then I met a fellow I will refer to as Larry. Larry lost everything in a business failure. He ended up on the streets. In order to have a better chance at finding a job, he moved to another area of the province
- [Christians vs Jesus](https://darenwride.com/223/christians-vs-jesus/) - Why are so many people who self-identify as Christians so different than the person of Jesus Christ? I'm not talking about a failure to live up to his high standard of morality- which includes both inner attitudes as well as outer actions. We all fail here, and he has made provision for this on the
- [When Mediocrity Becomes Excellence](https://darenwride.com/190/when-mediocrity-becomes-excellence/) - I found myself reacting rather strongly to a Huffington Post article about voter turnout in the recent Canadian federal election. What made me recoil was the little infographic on FB that linked to the article calling our 68.3% voter turnout "amazing". Now, I know that giving a voter turnout a letter grade (in this case
- [Goal Setting Worksheet](https://darenwride.com/177/goal-setting-worksheet/) - There is a lot of theory and a lot of chatter online and offline about goal-setting: "Are your goals SMART?" "Should you focus on problem solving instead of goal-setting?" "Is goal-setting simply wishful thinking?" "Do people obsess about setting goals as a way to avoid taking action?" While I recognize that some people may have
- [If You Weren't Afraid...](https://darenwride.com/166/if-you-werent-afraid/) - It's one of the most irritating personal development questions I have ever encountered. Yet it is also one of the most immediately actionable. "What would you do if you weren't afraid?" What irritates me about this question is the assumption that there is fear in my life and that fear is holding me back from
- [West Coast Trail](https://darenwride.com/144/west-coast-trail/) - The further away it gets, the more I want to do it again. Just over one year ago I hiked the West Coast Trail along the west coast of Vancouver Island with my friend Kelly and his two teenage sons. I am not so much a hiker as a canoeist, so in the months leading
- [Reading a Book Beside the Lake](https://darenwride.com/139/reading-a-book-beside-the-lake/) - The story behind the picture. As I was going through my pictures to find one that would work as an online poster, I came across this one of my daughter Danielle, taken many years ago while we were out camping as a family. It was our first year in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia.
- [Lessons from a World Record Sheep](https://darenwride.com/131/lessons-from-a-world-record-sheep/) - In the past few days the one of the lighter news stories has been the story of Chris, the stray Australian sheep. He was discovered roaming free in the wilds of Australia, in desperate need of a shearing. When he was finally brought in and given the long overdue haircut, he produced 89 pounds of
- [28 Years of Marital Bliss](https://darenwride.com/123/28-years-of-marital-bliss/) - Kristin and I just celebrated our 28th anniversary this past weekend. How did we celebrate? Well, we went camping. Actually, we went moose hunting and stayed in a tent while we were in the bush. Yes, I am a romantic genius. Actually, it is interesting how this unique anniversary trip happened. (And btw, no moose
- [The Cork Board](https://darenwride.com/108/the-cork-board/) - Wherever I go I try to have the same basic layout in my home office. Motorized Geek Desk against the longest wall; printer and scanner to one side, file cabinet to the other; bookshelves directly behind; office supplies and active files on the desk in their eternally preordained locations, etc. The one thing that tends
- [Biggest News of the Year](https://darenwride.com/99/biggest-news-of-the-year/) - It's been a while- she's already over 6 months old- but our first grandchild Rhys Anberlin Grace arrived in February. She has reorganized the life of my son and daughter in law, and is starting to affect our plans for the future! And here I naively thought that once our children had moved away we
- [Summer 2014 Paddles](https://darenwride.com/72/summer-2014-paddles/) - Kristin and I got in a couple canoe trips this summer, in addition to the usual paddling in the local lakes. The first was an attempt to paddle Goldstream north of Revelstoke. But the access road was washed out a ways from the takeout when we scouted it ahead of time, so we decided to
- [Cross Country Ski Lessons](https://darenwride.com/63/cross-country-ski-lessons/) - Cross Country Ski Lessons at Sovereign Lake near Vernon BC.
- [Night Skiing](https://darenwride.com/57/night-skiing/) - Well, in our quest to get our twice a week, Kristin changed her shift so she gets off early a couple days a week, allowing us to get out night skiing at Sovereign Lake. We usually get there around dinner time, when no one else is out and leave just as others are arriving for
- [Canoeing vs Cross Country Skiing](https://darenwride.com/50/canoeing-vs-cross-country-skiing/) - We finished our summer with just over 50 hours of paddling- less than we wanted but far more than recent years. The highlight was our Murtle Lake canoe trip in Wells Gray Provincial Park. We went in early June and beat the bugs- never saw any until the last night and the path out. The
- [New Website](https://darenwride.com/34/new-website/) - I just moved from an html template site to this iThemes resume style site. Not a whole lot else to say at this point, just wanted to get the page rolling!

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- [Good Day, eh!](https://darenwride.com/) - Welcome to my online hub. The dilemma of any [yourname].com website is whether to make it about personal info or about ministry, work and business. Facebook, Instagram etc have helped, as a profile on those sites can easily cover the personal side. But if you seek to live an integrated life, it's very difficult to
- [DNA of a Christ Follower](https://darenwride.com/dna-of-a-christ-follower/) - This book is the result of a challenge given at a Sonlife Ministries training event. The Challenge: Go to scripture and figure out the character traits of a follower of Jesus Christ. More than a decade later (closer to two actually!) my thinking has been refined through more than forty talks, the red pencils of
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- [Priorities, Planning and Productivity Resources](https://darenwride.com/levite/) - Below are the links and resources I mentioned, plus a few others! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Priorities-Planning-Productivity-Part-1Download Priorities-Planning-Productivity-Part-2Download Priorities-Planning-Productivity-Part-3Download Goal Setting Worksheet and info about Release Life Planning System Life Roots Worksheet BeDoHaveHelpLeave Life Planning Template A Single Year EverNote: Keep track of everything Fiverr: Outsourcing network Upwork: Outsourcing network
- [Podcasts](https://darenwride.com/priority-pastorx-podcast/) - Check Out My Two Podcasts Below The Disciple Making Podcast Disciple Making is a podcast I host with Tim Beadle. It is focused on issues related to disciple making. Episodes generally run about 20 minutes and occasionally feature intresting and relevant guests.
- [Preaching Clinic](https://darenwride.com/preaching-clinic/) - Studio Recordings of Workshop Segments See bottom of page for links to resources. Video 1: Intro and Stage 1 & 2 Video 2: Stages 3 to 7: Developmental Questions Video 3: Stage 8: Outline, Intros, Illustrations, Conclusions Video 4: Stages 9 & 10: Manuscript and Delivery Live Zoom Recording of Original Workshop Some links and
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- [Release Life Planning System](https://darenwride.com/rlps/) - Step Out of the Fog, Drop the Baggage, Take Action Toward Your Dreams Do you ever feel like your life is one big circle, and every time you stop to reflect on where you are and where you’re going, you have a sense of “been there, done that”? Do you find yourself lacking focus and
- [GSW Download](https://darenwride.com/gsw-download/) - Click Here to Get Your Goal Setting Worksheet.
- [Don't Waste Another Year... of Your One and Only Life](https://darenwride.com/release-life-planning-system/) - Step Out of the Fog, Drop the Baggage, Take Action Toward Your Dreams Do you ever feel like your life is one big circle, and every time you stop to reflect on where you are and where you’re going, you have a sense of “been there, done that”? Do you find yourself lacking focus and
- [About Daren](https://darenwride.com/bio/) - Formal Biography: Daren Wride grew up in the northern community of Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada. With true wilderness just down the street, Daren developed a love of the outdoors, and later worked in the mineral exploration and fur industries. He also participated in the sport of Marathon Canoe Racing, advancing to the National Championships four
- [](https://darenwride.com/goal-setting-worksheet/) - Click Here to Get Your Goal Setting Worksheet Now! There are a lot of different theories and ideas floating around about goal-setting: “Are your goals SMART?” “Should you focus on problem solving instead of goal-setting?” “Is goal-setting simply wishful thinking?” “Do people obsess about setting goals as a way to avoid taking action?” To help
- [Triple Threat Pastor](https://darenwride.com/triple-threat-pastor/) - I've been thinking a bit lately about triple threat pastors and wondering if they really, truly do exist. By triple threat I'm referring to that phrase most often used in relation to the entertainment industry where if someone can act, sing and dance, they're considered a triple threat. It also has application in sports and
- [Marriage](https://darenwride.com/marriage/) - Here is a link to the sermon Making Marriage Work, using content from the book of the same title, and interfacing it with Genesis 2.
- [Transition](https://darenwride.com/transition/) - Nothing fancy here yet. For info about a personal consultation (for instance if you are pastor looking at , in, or just through transition) or For information about my transitional coaching services for churches, simply go to the Contact Page
- [Release](https://darenwride.com/release/) - Because sometimes we need to go outside to get inside... Release: A Wilderness Adventure of the Soul is unlike any "self help" book you have ever read. This fictional story of a 2-week solo wilderness trek teaches a Goal Setting and Personal Development System that will give you the passion and the tools you need
- [My Books](https://darenwride.com/books/) - Release: A Wilderness Adventure of the Soul This fictional story of a 2-week solo wilderness trek teaches a Goal Setting and Personal Development System that will give you the passion and the tools you need to develop a comprehensive personal goal setting plan that moves you into the future with confidence and anticipation.
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