Have you ever looked at faith as a yes or no? No in between. You either believe or you don’t. Until recently, I know I hadn’t. This is my personal testimony of finding faith at 38. This Sunday, I’m getting baptized alongside my wife and three boys. I didn’t grow up in the church. My…
So many things in my life over the past 6 months have led me to explore the idea of encouraging others and being encouraged. It really started with parenting. Through learning more about ADHD/HSC and how to better parent our boys, one of the biggest pieces of advice I kept coming across was positive reinforcement….
Consistently creating content this year has given me a rearview mirror I’ve never really had before. For going on seven months now, I’ve found a rhythm: post 2-4 videos/day on TikTok, follow wherever my hobbies and personal interests take me, and then recap the biggest thing that stood out in my life with these monthly…
When I started chaseheckendorn.com last November, my goal was to share ideas, test them publicly, and see what happens. I assumed that at some point, one of them would gain enough momentum to grow beyond the testing phase. After just seven months, I’m proud to announce my first project to move from testing > pursuit:…
The last few minutes of this podcast with Matt Chandler are an incredible listen. These guys discussed all sorts of challenging things we all face in life, but they ended with this simple message: If you don’t quit, you win. “I’m not going to judge my life by outcomes, I’m going to judge it by…
Late spring always gets surprisingly busy around our house. Between work, kids’ sports, end-of-year school commitments, and everything else that piles up in May, my wife and I usually find ourselves without much time to think about fitness. To top it off, Memorial Day weekend basically kicks off pool season in Dallas, which means summer…
So why the sudden interest in beans? For a long time, beans (aka legumes) have lived in a weird nutrition purgatory in my brain. In 2011, the first real diet I was introduced to was Paleo. At the time, it had a huge impact on the way I viewed food. And in Paleo world, beans/legumes…
Earlier this month I made a friend at church through a small group I recently joined. He’s one of the volunteer leaders, and we hit it off on night one. Not long after, we grabbed time to talk and I shared my (pretty unique) path of finding faith later in life… like within the last…
The Sober Psycho Challenge is the Ultra-Marathon of Sobriety Challenges. 1 Year, 365 Consecutive Days of Absolutely No-Alcohol. If a 30-day challenge is a 5K, this is a 60K aka 37 Miles aka Ultra!
