Bring The Hat

01/30/2026

God has called us to BRING THE HAT!!

01/28/2026

01/26/2026

Focus on one thing at a time.

You see when you're being pulled in a dozen directions, you will never master a single one.

The enemy of excellence is not failure, but distraction.

The scattered man builds a pile of half-started projects.

The focused man builds a monument.

You must ruthlessly identify the single, central task that, if accomplished with excellence, would render all other tasks easier or even irrelevant.

This is your One Thing.

This is not about ignoring all else.

It is about prioritizing with absolute clarity.

Every "yes" to a distraction is a "no" to your destiny.

A man who knows his one hing can say "no" with a clear conscience, because he is not just busy, he is building something worthwhile.

In 2004, a young programmer named David Heinemeier Hansson was working at a web design firm, building a project management tool called Basecamp.

The industry's trend was towards massive, monolithic enterprise software packed with every conceivable feature.

He extracted the core Ruby libraries he'd built to make Basecamp and focused them into a single, elegant framework.

He named it Ruby on Rails.

While others chased complexity, he obsessed over simplicity, convention, and joy in the craft.

He famously preached the doctrine of "Convention over Configuration" by focusing his energy relentlessly on that One Thing, making web development faster and more enjoyable, he didn't just create a tool.

By so doing he ignited a movement.
Ruby on Rails powered the early growth of Twitter, GitHub, Shopify, and Airbnb.

It practically democratized web development.

He became a partner at a billion dollar company (37signals) and a best-selling author, not by doing everything, but by perfecting one single thing that changed everything.

The Bible says in:

Matthew 6:22 (ESV)
"The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light."

The Greek word for "healthy" here is haplous, which means single, focused, generous, without folds. A "single" eye is an undivided eye, a mind fixed on one central purpose, which is the Kingdom of God.

Stop adding. Start subtracting.
Excellence is the result of elimination of noise, while focusing on a single viable signal.

Mastery is not the child of talent, rather it is the orphan of focus.

01/26/2026

01/25/2026

Be the Calm.

In any crisis, in any heated room, in any moment of collective panic, the most powerful presence is not the loudest voice, but the stillest man.

The one whose pulse is steady, whose breath is deep, whose mind is clear.

Chaos is a vacuum begging to be filled, and it will be filled by either panic or peace.

Your assignment is to be calm, not by being passive, but by being so grounded in truth and preparedness that you become an anchor for everyone else.

Calmness makes your presence enough to access the situation from an educated perspective.

It is the ability to see the storm not as a world ending event, but as a temporary weather pattern.

When you master your own nervous system, you gain influence over the entire emotional ecosystem around you.
A calm man doesn't just survive the storm, he commands the ship through it.

On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia.

Two minutes later, at 2,800 feet, it struck a flock of geese as both engines failed.

The co-pilot exclaimed, "We've lost the thrust on both engines!" The plane was a gliding bus full of people over one of the world's most densely populated cities.

Captain Chesley Sullenberger had 35 seconds to find a solution.
In that eternity of pressure, he did not raise his voice, he did not panic.

He became the absolute calm, assessed the situation, and uttered the now famous words to air traffic control: "We're gonna be in the Hudson."

His tone was as matter-of-fact as if he were ordering coffee.

That calm was not a personality trait, it was a practiced discipline.

Decades of training, study, and a profound sense of responsibility had wired him to default to procedure, not panic.

His calmness steadied his co-pilot, allowed him to think with crystalline clarity, and resulted in the "Miracle on the Hudson" the successful water landing of an Airbus A320 with 155 souls, all of whom survived.

In the ultimate crisis, the calm man saved them all.

Jesus modeled this supernatural calm, a peace so profound it could speak authority into chaos:

Mark 4:39 (ESV)
"And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, 'Peace! Be still!' And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm."

Notice the sequence, the storm was raging.
The disciples were in panic.
Jesus, physically present in the same boat, was asleep.

His peace was so deep it could rest in the middle of the threat.
When awakened, he didn't catch their panic; he imposed his calm.

He spoke to the storm with the authority of the Creator.

The peace you are called to embody is not a denial of the storm's reality, but a connection to a reality above the storm.

Being Calm is a skill, It's the slow, steady breath in the face of the alarm.

Your calm is a strategic asset.

It makes you the man people look to when everything is falling apart.

It makes you the leader who can hear the still, small voice of wisdom over the roar of the crowd.

In a world of amplifiers, be a shock absorber. Be the calm one.

01/25/2026

Build Your Own Table.

There will come a time when no seat is offered to you at the table where decisions are made, where value is created, where the future is shaped.

The immature man fumes at the exclusion, waiting for an invitation that may never come.

The mature man nods, turns, and gathers his own wood.
He builds his own table.
He establishes his own standards, creates his own value, and becomes the host of his own destiny.

This is the ultimate declaration of sovereignty.

It is the understanding that your worth is not determined by someone else's guest list.

It is forged in your ability to create, to provide, and to invite others to a place built on your own terms of excellence, integrity, and vision.

Back in 1910, a 22 year old mailroom clerk named Henry Luce arrived in New York, a Yale graduate with grand ambitions in journalism.

The established media world the New York Times, the Evening Post, had no seat for an untested young man with big ideas. They owned the table.

Instead of spending a career begging for scraps, Luce and his partner Briton Hadden had a radical idea.

In 1923, with $86,000 in borrowed capital, they launched TIME magazine.

The establishment scoffed. Newspapers offered comprehensive reporting, TIME offered concise, narrative driven summaries for the busy modern man.

It wasn't just a new magazine, it was a new format, a new rhythm for news.

Luce didn't stop there. He went on to build Fortune, Life, and Sports Illustrated.

He didn't just take a seat in media, he built an entire dining hall.

He became one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, not by waiting for permission, but by creating an entirely new landscape where he set the rules.

Hebrews 11:10 (ESV)
"For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God."

A man who builds his own table is never without a place.
He may build in a garage, a basement, or a corner of the internet, but it is his.
And from that place of ownership, he gains the only authority that matters: the authority of a creator.

If the world won't give you a seat, build a better table. Then invite them to yours.