Calibrate Life & Spiritual Leadership

The Calibrate Life and Leadership Podcast is back and relaunching as a weekly podcast after a 5 year break.  This podcast has always been about calibrating our lives because as leaders, and as Christ-followers, we must experience transformation before we can lead transformation. It's about pressing beyond the tough stuff and discovering the joy of living, leading, and loving, because life is a gre...

We've heard people talking about a "new normal" or "when things get back to normal." It occurred to us that sometimes "normal" gives way to a new reality full of purpose, hope, and opportunity. Having lived through a deep grief process, we've simply recognized a grief process at work in the world around us. In this episode we are talking about "Grieving the Death of Normal." Notes and resources fo...

Embracing adversity, being willing to say "yes" to the tough stuff gives us new lenses to see things differently, it exercises atrophied muscles needed for new adventures and callings, and it deconstructs our inferior plans to make way for God's excellent plans. In this episode we talk about saying "yes" to adversity in expectation of the joys ahead. Notes and resources for this episode: https://c...

On David's 60th birthday, his journal entry included 7 things he will do in the next 20 years based upon lessons learned in the previous 20. In this episode David and Donna talk about reflections on joyfully living, leading, and loving.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/149

Those we lead have the opportunity to see who we really are when we lead them in and through a crisis. Our heart, our character, our resolve, our faith, our love, and our motivations are all revealed. In episode 148 of The Calibrate Life Podcast, we discuss 8 things for a leader to keep in focus while leading during a crisis.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/148

If God has positioned you as a spiritual leader, he will also empower you to serve and lead. In this episode we are going to talk about the mantle and anointing that comes with God's call and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to lead in times of uncertainty. Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/147

You can do anything you want to do but you can't do everything you want to do. Shiny-object Syndrome is the urge to chase and engage things that get your attention. The problem is, there are too many opportunities, too many shiny objects, more interesting and compelling things than we have time or resources to chase. In this episode we talk about managing our shiny-object syndrome. Notes and resou...

Margin is the blank spaces on a document that defines its borders and makes it readable and functional. We need margin in our lives. It is the spaces, the blanks, that make everything else work. REST, health, well-being, effectiveness and many other things are elusive if we don't mind the blank spaces. In this episode of the Calibrate Life Podcast we talk about putting the margin back in. Notes an...

The "gold" of our lives comes from the ability to rest in the Presence of God, learning to zone down, learning to listen. In this episode we talk about our renewed commitment to really learn to rest, to have abiding peace in the midst of chaos. Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/144

How do you know when you aren't sacrificing enough? In last week's episode we discussed how to know when we are sacrificing too much out of the wrong motivation, and this week we look at the other side of the coin. Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/143

Life is simply full of sacrifices. As a matter of normal course, we often give up something we care about or love to gain something we care about or love more. Sacrifice embraces change and transition as we let go of important things to gain more important things.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/142

Your actions, habits, and practices accomplish the things in your heart. Spiritually minded people are good at experiencing God, but often, not so good at obeying God. Obedience always translates into actions, and if you have a dream or an intention that just never gets translated into reality, what you need to work on is taking action.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.c...

Today's topic is a little controversial, even to me, but we think it is on target. It's foolish to do something negotiable without counting the cost. It is foolish to NOT do something non-negotiable whether you have counted the cost or not. This is recklessness. I have decided, I need to live life with more recklessness.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/140

Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. It has also come to be used as a term referring to the mental, physical, emotional, intellectual, and even spiritual capacity required to deal with a situation. In this episode of Calibrate Life we discuss how to gauge, manage, and increase our bandwidth.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibra...

We can feel drained, rested, or energized in each of our four capacities: physical, emotional, intellectual or spiritual. In this episode we discuss how to refresh, re-fire, and replenish those four capacities and how to stay full of life and energy.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/138

Living joyfully is about finding contentment right now. Can we just decide to WANT to be where we are right now? Can we just decide to cherish the uniqueness of this day and this moment? Can we slow down enough to touch, to taste, to really see, to listen,  to feel things I may never experience in this way again? In this episode of Calibrate Life we talk about living joyfully right now. Notes and...

I heard someone say the other day, "you have to love what you do if you want to be good at it."   Living out our great God-adventure often involves doing things we'd rather not do. So, how to come to embrace and even love doing things we don't like so much, and to even be good at those necessary things so we can press toward God's high calling in our lives with excellence? That's what we are going...

Spiritual warfare is a real. Often, life's obstacles come from our stupid choices or uninformed decisions, but if you are attempting obedience, if you are attempting to follow a bold God-path, if you yield yourself to be a part of the solution to some of the problems of this world — you are going to face a dark spiritual opposition. Count on it.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calib...

Hireath is an old Welsh word describing a feeling of homesickness for something that no longer exists. In the grief journey, in major life transitions, and in almost every pursuit of the great adventure, this is a feeling with which we must grapple.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/134

For a relationship to be nurturing, life-giving, and active, it has to bring some value to all of the participants. The most valuable value is love, friendship, and mutual companionship. But, particularly of those of you who orchestrate relationships, in this episode we are going to the importance of orchestrating relationships and why life-giving content is important in and for the relationship....

Persistence is necessary to the fulfillment of any mission. Talent, genius, education, and even spirituality is not enough in and of itself to be successful in your mission, the prize goes to the persistent. In this episode we talk about the necessity and the power of persistence.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/132

Having let go of a lot of significant things about our former life, and having made an ongoing decision to step into a new life, new adventures, and new focus, we've found these 6 things to be true and necessary for taking risks and going in unproven new life directions.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/131

How do you know when an open door is the right door? Sometimes we have to wait so long and opportunities are so hard to come by that when we have an opportunity we feel we should seize it. In this episode we are discussing doors, when to walk through them and when to walk past them.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/130

Mission drift is when you unintentionally broaden your focus and start moving toward things you you never intended to pursue, your life travels the path of least resistance, and you end up where you never planned or wanted to go. In this episode we explore mission drift and talk about a few ways to avoid it or get back on track when it is happening. Notes and resources for this episode: https://ca...

Spiritual leaders model the way. We model expectations and the pace for those we love and lead. In this episode we discuss 5 things we must model to those we love and lead.  Notes and resources for this episode: https://calibrate360.com/128