13 Nuclear Questions
Some of your greatest opportunities in your life, love, and career are waiting on the other side of some great questions.
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Joseph Barkley
- Oct 5, 2022
- 6 min
The Real Costs of Quiet Quitting
Quiet Quitting" steals from the bottom line & your life. But I believe what it's telling you about your future is worth investigating.
Joseph Barkley
- Jul 15, 2022
- 8 min
We owe it to ourselves to stop hurting ourselves.
How about seeing yourself as someone worth sacrifice, worth discipline, worth a great night’s sleep?
Joseph Barkley
- Jun 28, 2022
- 5 min
The Ultimate Guide to Never Being Fooled Again.
In an age of intense disinformation, how can you get news, statistics, and other information to serve you instead of enslave you?
Joseph Barkley
- Jun 21, 2022
- 4 min
Reasons to Stay in a Toxic Relationship
By too quickly labelling a friend, romantic partner, or coworker as "toxic", we miss out on intimacy, profitability, & personal development
Joseph Barkley
- Jun 2, 2022
- 2 min
How Trying to Be Nice Hurts People
"Nice" families are ruled by secret agendas. "Nice" companies fail to adapt. "Nice" artists paint by numbers. "Nice" leaders stay stuck.
Joseph Barkley
- May 17, 2022
- 3 min
You Are Busy. And You Like It.
Your busyness is a fortress you’ve built around a life you don’t want to give up.
JKB
- May 10, 2022
- 3 min
Frog Futures
We can learn that hard feelings are an expected part of any journey we want to take in life, love, and career.
JKB
- Apr 19, 2022
- 2 min
How to finally "Arrive"
Most people spend life under the assumption that if we work hard enough, we'll finally "arrive".
JKB
- Apr 12, 2022
- 2 min
The Anatomy of Trust
We can be too careful with our trust, and if we trust fewer people than we could, we miss opportunities.
JKB
- Apr 21, 2021
- 2 min
I Get So Emotional, Baby
You cannot become spiritually mature without also becoming emotionally mature.
JKB
- Mar 1, 2021
- 3 min
Introducing: The Mask Generation!
My recent COVID conversations have evolved from “I wonder how the pandemic will impact jobs, church engagement, real estate, the economy,...
JKB
- Feb 22, 2021
- 3 min
Why We Must Scrutinize Our Leaders
People don’t trust perfect (because it must be hiding something). People trust real.
JKB
- Dec 31, 2020
- 2 min
Happy New Year and Good Riddance, amirite?
January 1 always promises, if only superstitiously, that "old is gone, new has come" in some unique way. With the year we've all just...
JKB
- Dec 17, 2020
- 2 min
Lament your way through Christmas
Lament realizes that we won't always see what we're becoming and what God's doing because we wouldn't have wanted it to happen this way.
JKB
- May 26, 2020
- 3 min
The Efficiency of Joy
A key indicator of health is how difficult it is to make you happy.
JKB
- Apr 24, 2020
- 3 min
What face masks can't protect us from
We might need added precautions— not against COVID-19— but another sinister condition.
Some are dangerously susceptible to "Soundstupiditus"
JKB
- Mar 30, 2020
- 4 min
You Have to Change What You Believe About Stress.
Whatever level of stress you have, it’s actually not embedded in a feeling, it’s a belief that you’re living out.
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