justinlathrop on April 21st, 2009

I love productivity. One of the greatest tools (I thought) for productivity is “push technology” in regards to email. I have loved for many years being notified the second I receive an email so that I can immediately deal with the task and have it be done and not piling up with other emails in [...]

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justinlathrop on April 6th, 2009

Today I have two great meetings. One with Jerry Hurley. He is on the directional leadership team for lifechurch.tv and the other is with Anthony Coppedge. He wrote the ebook, twitter for churches. As I was preparing for these meetings I thought it might be helpful to pass along to you how it is I [...]

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justinlathrop on March 12th, 2009

I spent a little time this morning with JT Wray at Gospel Publishing House. When I sat down at his table in his office I notice a light switch sitting on top of the table. It begged the question, “why?”

He stated in his job there are many tough decisions to make that have lots of [...]

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justinlathrop on December 31st, 2008

I don’t know where I heard it, but I have never forgotten the saying, “If you aim for nothing, you will hit it every time.”
I love goal-setting. I love setting out to do something and then seeing it accomplished. Over the past several years I have seen myself really grow in my ability to set [...]

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justinlathrop on October 22nd, 2008

I’m not really sure what it is about mindmapping, but I have found it to be an incredible tool to help me get my head around a project. I’m sure there has been psychological studies done on why that is, but I don’t know the details on that. All I know is it works.
My only [...]

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justinlathrop on October 4th, 2008

As a teenager there were countless times I felt as if I was backsliding. In other words, there was something I knew I should do, I committed to doing it, and then 1 month, 1 week, 1 day, 1 hour later I found myself not doing what I thought I should do. (See Romans 7:15)
Those [...]

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justinlathrop on September 11th, 2008

As I grow older I become more and more aware of what my personal “pet peeves” are. Most of the time my pet peeves are things I would never do because they are frustrating or annoying to me. For example, being late to things is a pet peeve of mine, and pretty much you can [...]

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justinlathrop on September 5th, 2008

I was given a great opportunity at a young age to work at a wonderful church. Although, I am eternally grateful to Nate Ruch for giving me the chance at such a young age, I still don’t know what he was thinking. I think of how young and ignorant I was at that time and [...]

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