Relationship Coach PodcasterAward-Winning Author JOHN CERTALIC

Hi Reader, Later this week I’m giving an online talk to a group of 25-30 regional mission leaders serving in Asia. The title and topic they gave me to speak about: “The Gift of Listening.” In preparing for my time with these missionaries, I came across a quote that fits in well. Here's why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to...

Our relationship with God impacts all our other relationships. It's the most important relationship of all.

Reader, One of the things I like about the website for our You Were Made for This podcast is the ability people have to comment on a particular episode. For example, three days ago, a listener shared his views about episode 063, Six Reasons Why We’re Not More Curious About People. Here’s what he wrote: I think you left out one reason why people aren’t more curious about other people’s lives: because they genuinely don’t care. This is the position in which I find myself. I try to care. I fake...

Reader, “On September 11, I always take the day off. I want to be in a peaceful, quiet place praying. It is a day I both mourn and celebrate.” - Genelle Guzman-McMillan, 9/11 survivor “It’s the nature of the world that most people have moved on, but the people directly involved with 9/11, for them, twice a day it’s 9/11.” - Robert Reeg, former FDNY firefighter “I still have the shoes I wore to work that day. The soles are melted, and they’re caked in ash. I keep them in a shoebox with the...