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I just finished reading the book Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk.  As a business person and someone who has spent a considerable amount of time reading about passion and connecting passion with your “work,” I found this book to be great. “Crush It” is [...]

Well, I can’t believe it is already Thanksgiving.  That means Christmas is right around the corner.  I want to thank you for checking out TrippAtkins.com this year and I want to wish you a happy Thanksgiving.  This is one of my favorite times of the year (not because of the food, because I would prefer [...]

“Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave along with you.” – Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

I just finished reading 200 Pomegranates and an Audience of One: Creating a Life of Meaning and Influence by Shawn Wood.  I love reading about finding your calling and purpose in life and this book was another book of that flavor.  One thing that I really enjoyed was Shawn’s take on how all of the [...]

I’m staring a new post series this week called “Stuff I Like” that will be a collection of links, videos, or pretty much anything else that I came across this week that might be of interest to you. One of my favorite professional athletes is NFL quarterback Peyton Manning.  Mainly because he’s helped my fantasy [...]

It’s a big day today at the Atkins’ house.  Our little guy is celebrating his second birthday day today.  I can’t believe where the time goes and how fast the first two years of his life have passed us by.  The speed that he is learning new things and his little personality and sense of [...]

I just wrapped up the book, Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different by Tullian Tchividjian.  I really enjoyed the book.  It gives a great discussion of how Christians are to be “in the world but not of the world” as Jesus prayed in John 17. I really enjoyed the book and [...]

I just finished reading Shane Hipps, Flickering Pixels: How Using Technology Shapes Your Faith.  As a geeky guy, I love technology, flat panel TVs, computers, the internet, my iPhone – pretty much anything that plugs in.  While Shane is not critical of technology per se, he is critical of the adage that the medium is [...]

Convenience is hugely attractive in organizations because it is easy to defend and easy to approve…The problem is that convenient approaches rarely break through or generate extraordinary returns. – Seth Godin How has your business or ministry been handicapped by convenience?  As Seth points out, extraordinary returns do not come from taking the convenient approach.  [...]

“Our call as lawyers is to minister God’s truth, beauty, goodness, justice, mercy, compassion, or love wherever it is lacking, whether it be in our law office, our law school, the county courthouse, the adversary system, our client’s family, our partner’s life, or at the coffee shop” – Michael P. Schutt in Redeeming Law: Christian [...]