ALIGN & CULTIVATE

aligning your mission and values by cultivating the life you want to live

 

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To cultivate means to prepare and use soil for fruitful crops. Cultivation requires a process of churning, uprooting, fertilizing, and planting. Each person is responsible for cultivating the soil of their lives. We firmly believe that people have greatness inside and agency to do what is needed. We also believe that we were never meant to take on this life alone. With those two core beliefs, we know that coaching life planning will help you increases your perspective and personal insight and produce fruit in your life.

Alignment means arrange in correct and/or appropriate relative positions. Our desire since we have been married is to help others align their lives with deep meaning and purpose with the potential that has been given them.

So as you take the step to learn more about us, our desire is to help you align and cultivate a rich and meaningful life.

Jeff loves helping people find their purpose, while helping them be the best they can be.

Julie lives to equip and empower people to boldly step into their purpose.

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What Die-Hard Fans Can Teach Us About Sticking With What Matters
What Die-Hard Fans Can Teach Us About Sticking With What Matters

“We argue with strangers on the internet, swear the refs are blind, and stand by our squad. But the moment we don’t understand God’s timing, we pull away.”

Guardrails and Grace: Why Boundaries Make Us Braver
Guardrails and Grace: Why Boundaries Make Us Braver

Guardrails gave us the confidence to live the moment fully…

We were on a cliffside hike recently—you know, one of those winding trails where the views make you say “wow” but the drop-offs make your knees say “nope.” As we hiked, my son—in all his mischievous joy— ran down the path toward me and jumped into a surprise piggy back like he was a featherweight toddler and not a growing pre-teen!


Trust the Scouting Report
Trust the Scouting Report

As a coach, there are few things I take more seriously than the scouting report. It’s the game plan. The blueprint. The inside scoop on what we’re about to face. I study our opponent’s tendencies, strengths, weaknesses, and try to design a strategy that gives us the best shot at success. Not perfection—success. 

This is exactly how I Think God wants the Bible to be for His followers.

Shaking
Shaking

Photo by Dave Goudreau on Unsplash

We will all experience things that rattle us to the core. We all have moments, months, or even years of great hardship. But how we face the shaking and how we view it can make a big difference.

What I'm Learning
What I'm Learning

Learning is living and I like living, so I admit I will always be in process. Here is a little something I am learning this week.

To Know it all, is to Know Nothing
To Know it all, is to Know Nothing

I was talking to a friend a while back who’s 15-year-old son was NOT studying for his permit test. He didn’t want to keep taking practice tests because “he knew everything already!” That is of course if “knowing everything,” means that he could get all 10 answers right on the aforementioned practice test after checking 5 with Google and a few with Dad, then yes, he knew everything! Especially since driving is summed up in 10 simple questions.

Power of Emotion
Power of Emotion

The interaction between logic and emotion is a twisted web within each culture. Some people and or cultures see emotion as weakness while others see it as passion and spirit. Some try to detach from emotion in the workplace for a variety of different reasons while others strive to bring “the whole person” to work each day. I think that we are much more powerful and purposeful when our emotions are engaged with the work we are doing.

Power of Vision
Power of Vision

Photo by David Travison Unsplash

Have you noticed that in both athletics and business, the highest functioning groups have a clear and shared vision and goal?

Tough Love
Tough Love

The truth is, growth hurts ALL the time, and then- only after the pain- it feels invigorating.

"Make Good Choices!"
"Make Good Choices!"

This is a simple phrase I find myself saying a lot. Sometimes it comes out as a stern parental reminder when I finish a conversation with my young boys after stopping them (or failing to stop them) from pummeling each other. Sometimes it comes out as a lighthearted, yet serious reminder to my athletes on a Friday going into a competition free weekend or a vacation period. Sometimes I just say it to remind myself and others that our choices matter.