Real-World Thinking for Christian Business Owners You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
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Posts are written by Dr. Bill English, Executive Coach, Licensed Psychologist (MA, LP), and Christian business owner.
When Every Good Opportunity Gets a Yes
Good opportunities fill your calendar one yes at a time. Use a simple three-question filter and a respectful “not now” to protect your top priorities this year.
The Client Who Costs More Than They Pay
A demanding client can look essential on the invoice while draining your hours, your team and your evenings. Here is how to count the real cost today.
Raising Your Prices Without Losing Sleep
Haven’t raised your prices in years? Learn to separate price from self-worth, let your numbers guide you, and plan a calm, respectful, clear price increase.
Can Your Business Run Without You for a Week?
Can your business run without you for a week? Three shifts and one step to take this week to help you hand off decisions and finally take real time off.
Everyone Says Use AI. Here’s a Sane Way to Decide
Pressure to adopt AI is everywhere, but results are mixed. Here is a calm, wise way for owners to test AI on one problem and decide where the time goes.
When You Skip Your Own Paycheck
Many owners pay everyone else first and skip their own pay. Here is how to separate your worth from your cash balance and bring trust and diligence together.
Waiting for Certainty Is Also a Decision
Uncertainty is high, and many owners are putting off big decisions. Here is how to move forward with wisdom, a decision date and your faith in the lead.
When Every Conversation at Home Is About the Business
When every conversation at home turns into a business update, your marriage pays for it. Three practical shifts to rebuild real connection with your spouse.
You’re Home, But Your Mind Is Still at Work
Home but still thinking about work? Learn why business owners struggle to switch off, and try a simple shutdown routine this week to be present at home.
Why Every Decision Still Lands on Your Desk
If every approval, hire, and customer exception still runs through you, you are the bottleneck. Five practical steps to get decisions off your desk.
Busy Isn’t Profitable: How to Break a Profit Plateau
Revenue is up but profit won’t move? Here’s why busy businesses stall and five practical moves owners can make to break a profit plateau this quarter.
When Your Self-Worth Rides on Your Performance: The Hidden Cost of Perfectionistic Faith
What the research says about performance-based religion and perfectionism, and how to get off the treadmill
The Good Life That Isn't: When Your Business, Your Marriage, and Your Faith Are at War
From the outside, she has it all: a profitable business, a growing team, a life others envy. But her calendar is packed from dawn to dusk, she and her husband bicker constantly, and her time with God has shrunk to a Sunday-morning checkbox. The three most important areas of her life aren't just out of balance. They're fighting each other.
If that sounds familiar, you're not failing. You're caught in a pattern researchers, business thinkers, and Scripture all recognize.
Before You Set Q4 Targets, Look at Your Calendar
It’s the last week of September. You’ve got a revenue goal and a profit goal in your head for Q4, and maybe a spreadsheet to back it up. More sales calls. A push on that new offer. Finally closing the year where you said you would back in January.
Here’s the question most owners skip: Where, exactly, on your calendar is that plan going to happen?
The Wound Beneath the Win: Childhood Trauma, Great Wealth and the Restless Heart
Some of the most accomplished people I work with have built companies worth more than most people will see in a lifetime. And some of them tell me, quietly, that none of it has touched the ache they've carried since they were young.
One owner said to me, "I have five Lamborghinis and a private jet, and none of it means anything to me."
That isn't a character flaw. Psychology and Scripture both point to the same thing: a wound can drive a person to succeed, but success can't heal your wound.
I'm Working Harder Than Ever — So Why Isn't My Business Where I Thought It Would Be?
The gap between effort and outcome can be confusing and difficult. The real gap is nearly all about alignment.
Why Marriage Coaching Matters for Christian Business Owners
Most executives will invest in a business coach without hesitation. Fewer will ever consider investing in their marriage the same way. That's a costly blind spot — because your marriage isn't separate from your leadership. It's one of the four load-bearing walls holding up the rest of your life, alongside your business, your calendar, and your walk with God. When that wall cracks, the others feel it.
The Succession Crisis Nobody Wants to Plan For
Jamie Dimon has been saying it for months: the American Dream is slipping out of reach. But a new JPMorgan Chase report gives that warning something it didn't have before — a number attached to it. And the number is sobering for anyone who owns a business and has quietly told themselves "I'll figure out my exit eventually."
How Stress Affects a Christian Business Owner's Walk With God
Chronic stress doesn't just wear down your body and your business decisions — it directly interferes with the parts of your mind involved in prayer, attention, and a sense of closeness to God, while also nudging you toward fear, doubt, and self-reliance instead of trust. The good news, backed by the same body of research, is that the relationship runs both ways: a well-tended spiritual life is one of the most consistently documented buffers against the very stress that's crowding it out.