When your first five relationships are strong, something beautiful happens — your life begins to overflow into the lives of others. This sixth key relationship is where your strengths, wisdom, and lived experience start to serve the world around you. From your community to your clients to the people you’ve never met but still impact, this is where purpose meets contribution. In this week’s blog, we explore how creating value for others deepens your joy, expands your influence, and connects directly to the calling on your life.

One of the biggest transitions we face as parents is the moment our children become adults — and we move into the role of extended family in their lives. It’s a shift no one prepares us for, yet it requires deep maturity, acceptance, and emotional resilience. This week’s blog explores how to navigate changing roles with grace, understand the difference between acceptance and expectation, and build healthier family connections for every generation.

Your relationship with your children is one of the most meaningful connections you will ever experience — but it also requires clarity, wisdom, and unconditional love. Parenting isn’t about controlling every outcome; it’s about guiding, supporting, and loving your children no matter what… and even if. In this week’s blog, we explore why order matters, why maturity guides your level of control, and how parenting shapes you just as much as you shape them.

Your spouse or partner is the only family relationship you choose — and that choice forms the foundation for every other part of your family life. When this relationship is placed in the right order, everything else becomes more stable. When it’s neglected or pushed below other priorities, small cracks start to form. In this blog, we explore why order matters, why your partner relationship is the core of the family unit, and three powerful ways to strengthen (or even save) this connection.

How you speak to yourself shapes everything — your energy, your relationships, your confidence, and even the way others respond to you. The words you whisper internally carry real emotional energy. When your inner voice is harsh, life feels heavier. When you treat yourself with kindness, your entire world softens and begins to shift. This blog explores why your relationship with yourself is one of the most powerful forces in your life… and how nurturing it transforms every other relationship you have.

Life feels different when you remember you’re not walking through it alone. Your relationship with your Creator — however you define that connection — becomes the root system beneath every part of your life. When this relationship is strong, you feel anchored. When it’s neglected, everything else feels heavier. This blog explores why this foundational relationship matters and how strengthening it brings peace, clarity, and purpose back into your days.

Life feels off when one of your key relationships is out of balance. Inspired by Dr. Paul Jenkins, this series explores the seven relationships that shape your happiness — your Creator, yourself, your family, your community, and even your things. When these align, life begins to flow with clarity, purpose, and joy.

We all want to see our kids and grandkids get their moment to shine—but sometimes, they spend the whole game sitting on the bench.

This story isn’t really about volleyball. It’s about the lessons life teaches us when we show up, give our best, and still feel unseen.

Whether it’s on the court, in business, or in our own personal growth, “bench moments” test our patience, strengthen our character, and prepare us for what’s next.

Because sometimes, the most valuable growth doesn’t happen under the lights—it happens in the waiting.