In this episode of Living with Heart: From Birth to Death, discover the powerful Equation for the Gifts of Feelings—Willingness + Patience + Work + Time = Gifts. This life-changing process shows how emotions like sadness, anger, loneliness, and even shame can transform into healing, hope, joy, and deeper connection with God and others. Learn how practicing the Equation empowers you to live fully, love deeply, and lead well.

Discover the five interconnected pitfalls that can trap leaders in cycles of performance, isolation, and secrecy. Learn how secrets sap purpose and passion, leading to burnout and addiction—until hope and healing interrupt the descent. This episode highlights how leaders can return to authenticity, connection, and true leadership through vulnerability and recovery.

A man knows what is worth dying for, because he knows what is worth living for.

Movement #6 - A man identifies himself with mercy:

He knows that but for the grace and mercy of God, he would not be “where he is.” He would not be able to identify himself with The Twelve Movements, and he would not be able to implement them. 

Because he identifies his own need for mercy, having received it himself, he tends to be merciful and gentle without being weak.

Movement #5 is a matter of the heart, like every movement of The Twelve Movements of a Man’s Life.

A man faces and struggles with being a work in progress by admitting and struggling to accept that “clumsy is as good as we are ever going to become.” 

The Twelve Movements of a Man’s Life are about a way of living with daily routines over a lifetime. They are about bringing your heart, head, hands, and habits to your relationships and life. We build a lasting legacy one day at a time and one step at a time. 

The preface to Twelve Movements of a Man’s Life is vital because the movements are not just a list of twelve things to accomplish. They are twelve movements that are about a man’s whole life. They are processes that interlock and “circles” that join and move a man into wholeness and love and legacy. 

We are talking about the real meaning of resolution, what many us set our minds to focus on in the first of every year. We often fail not too long after we commit ourselves to some New Year’s resolution. There is a reason we often give up on our promises and commitments to ourselves.