Wednesday Morning Run-Down

• Hearing tons about the show Downton Abbey, but I'm noticing it's all the non-football people who watch it =)
• One of our special guests at Dream Year Weekend this Friday to Sunday in Charlotte is John Mark McMillan - to talk about his journey as a musical artist. Only 6 tickets left, would love for you to join us. Register HERE
• Spent the past two days consulting with the directors of a national leadership conference who flew into VB. My friend Doug Forehand loaned me his beachfront condo as a workspace, making me look really really good
• The Anthropologist by Anthropologie
• Why I could never play the guitar: I needed more hands
• Interesting quote by UFC's Chael Sonnen: "You know, these guys want to talk about God. 'Oh, I want to thank God. I want to thank God.' Listen, I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system." (@jeremysexton)
• Tripp Crosby told me he wrote a letter to his 50-year old self: "When you're 50, no matter what you're doing, stop. Look around you. Recognize there are younger people who are doing it better than you. Then invest in them."
• Apple’s profit of $13.1 billion in the first quarter of 2012 was equal to their revenue in the last quarter of 2010 (via techcrunch). More people decided to follow Jesus in the 3 months after his death than in the 3 years of his public ministry (@jarrettstevens). Death's a catalyst
• Had to get our minivan towed yesterday. I don't care what you call it, stuff like that is annoying
• Filmed a curriculum in Nashville last Friday with Thomas Nelson at the gorgous Houston Station warehouse. One of my favorite people TK McKamy directed the project. Conversationalists included Pete Wilson, Chris Seay, Leonard Sweet and Ginny Owens
• The robot bird that can fly at TED global 2011
• Creative school environments (via @ainsl3y)
• The impact of words on kids (via @mattwade)
  

Comments

[Doug]

Glad the condo worked out for you guys! I hope the meeting was productive. Thanks for the shout out! Let me know when your boys want to learn how to surf!

[jake dockter]

Downton Abbey is incredible. So good. huge social media success! Check out @pattonoswalt who live tweets every new episode.

[stephen proctor]

did you get any coffee while at Houston Station? =)

[Ben Arment]

i didn't, all business no play =(