Plan, Pray & Reflect

As we finish up our month on starting a new job off right, I want to finish with a practice I think is wise to incorporate with any career or life change: plan and reflect. There is so much value in planning both for logistical success and for mental health. This will reduce anxiety and stress as well as make …

Happy New Year!

As we close 2021 and begin 2022 I want to start by saying thank you for your continued support and interaction with us at Crossroads Career.  We have so much to be grateful for including meeting in person once again with our Atlanta conference this year.  It was so nice to see some of you face-to-face after several years without …

A Formula for Joy!

Probably the most popular Christmas tune on the topic of joy is the familiar carol, “Joy to the World,” with its lyrics: Joy to the World! The Lord is comeLet earth receive her King!Let every heart prepare Him roomAnd heaven and nature singAnd heaven and nature singAnd heaven, and heaven and nature sing Since one of the four themes for …

Peace During the Holidays

Peace! Don’t we all want to be at peace? I do. Most people think they’ll attain peace when they achieve whatever it is they want to achieve so they can stop worrying about whatever it was they were worrying about. They think they’ll be at peace when: The challenge is, when peace is based on a circumstance, you might only …

Hope During the Holidays

The holiday season has just begun. Black Friday is already in the rearview mirror. Christmas decorations are going up, and carols are filling the air. But this season doesn’t feel “merry” for everyone. If you are experiencing a transition of any kind during the holidays, like: …chances are good that you might not feel very merry. In fact, you might …

I’m Not Alone!

Loneliness is hard. We were not built by God to be alone; we need to be in community. Job seekers struggle every day with loneliness in two significant ways. They spend a lot of time alone. They are separated from the people they used to work with, whom they probably spent more time with than they did their family. Where …

The Gift of Community

The Crossroads Board Retreat and National Conference came at a strange time for me. It was sandwiched in-between other travel, in the middle of my busiest time of year both personally and professionally, and I found that as I hopped on the plane I didn’t feel ‘prepared.’ If you’re like me, you always have these really ambitious ideas before retreats, …

Nothing New Under The Sun?

Have you ever noticed that when something is brought to your attention, you seem to notice “that thing” more and more and more? This is actually called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, or sometimes the red car syndrome. For example, when I’m thinking about purchasing a certain item, I suddenly start noticing that product more, and the relevant competitive products more as well. …

How Deep is Your Relationship with God?

As we’ve been preparing for the release of a new workbook, Hear God Calling You: A Biblical and Practical Approach to Discerning Your Calling and Finding Career Fulfillment, we’ve mentioned that it’s filled with practical exercises designed to help you apply the concepts to your life. Today I’ll be sharing with you two of those exercises to give you a …

Not Just Hearing, But Doing

Last week we announced that our new workbook,  Hear God Calling You: A Biblical and Practical Approach to Discerning Your Calling and Finding Career Fulfillment, is launching at the end of this month. Today, I get to tell you a bit more about what you can expect from the workbook.  Throughout the process of developing the workbook, one of the …