Why Like It Matters?
There are thousands of self-help books, CDs, and videos available today. There is more information available today than at any other time in our history. Despite this fact, our problems and obstacles continue to dominate our lives. Like It Matters’ unique approach to experiential learning allows people to see, hear, and experience “Leadership in Motion”.
You’ve read the books, said the quotes… Now is the time to learn to Live It!
You’ve read the books, said the quotes… Now is the time to learn to Live It!
“You cannot make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?”
Bob Moawad
Professional Reasons
In today’s business climate, professionals need that “difference” that “makes the difference.” Like It Matters creates a unique environment that allows professionals the opportunity to ask and answer important strategic questions:
- Where am I now?
- Where am I going?
- What will it take to get there? And how long?
Personal Reasons
If today were your last day on this planet, were you the spouse, parent, child, or sibling that you were put here to be? That “end in mind” thinking is what it takes to be the “Best Possible You”. Our graduates expect to leave our training as better leaders, inspiring communicators, and committed team members. Their surprise is the renewed passion they experience for their personal lives.
A Program that WORKS!
Mr. Black,
To say that I was leery of the Leadership Awakening weekend training would be a vast understatement. I got cold feet and almost made up an excuse as to why I might not be able to attend during the week leading up to the event. However, to have missed this training would have been a detriment to becoming WHO it is that God has made me to be. During the training, I came face to face with some of the barriers that had been keeping me from being the leader that my church needed me to be. Over the 48 hour period, I was challenged in new ways that I had never experienced and had my life significantly altered. I literally came back to my home and church as a different person. Yes, I still had the same hobbies, family, and even calling, but, for the first time in my adult life, those things actually begin to take on significant importance in my life.
As wild as it probably sounds, food began to taste better. Smells become more potent and life became more vivid. When I began living my life like it matters, it actually did!! I am a better husband, a better father, a better pastor, and a better leader in my community because of the work of God in my life, through the experience made possible in your training. The following weekend, a man pulled me aside and literally asked, “what happened to you last weekend”? He hen mentioned that he had just heard me preach the best and most bold sermon that he had heard in his life. Just this morning, 3 weeks after the training, I felt more assertive and bold in a Zoom meeting with our city’s mayor regarding a community event that our church leads each year for he 4th of July weekend. I have been more consistent in my devotional time with my children and even started an LLC in order to begin creating a future financial legacy for my children and their children to follow. I have been a better leader in my local church and my staff noticed an immediate difference in my approach to everyday tasks. hank you for taking the time to create a program that WORKS! You have made an impact in my life and I plan to continue that impact in the lives of others for generations that come.
Joey Cook
Pastor, Life Church Arkansas
PUT ME IN COACH, I’M READY TO PLAY!
After your class, I was reminded of the John Fogerty song Centerfield. I kept thinking Put me in coach, I’M READY TO PLAY!
The process you have put together is truly amazing. The things we did and things you said that were so powerful because of how you put it altogether and it is mindboggling.
You know what you and I do is so similar. As a cardiologist, I work on people’s hearts. You do too. Most of the time, I see people after a heart attack. You do too in a sense. After a mechanical fix, most people I see are really interested in taking care of themselves differently, taking their medications, exercising and eating right. They want to do things better. You have the same effect. My heart was mended spiritually by you.
I am excited about living my life like it matters. In fact, I am fired up! This was by far the best 46 hours I have ever spent. I thank you for that. I have my tool box and I am excited about being under construction! Keep healing hearts Mr. Black.
Dr. Anderson Mehrle
Cardiologist, Blue Stem Cardiology, Bartlesville, OK
LIFE ALTERING
The benefits of the Empower U course have been life altering. Discovering barriers that have held me back from my full potential for the last 19 years was such a breakthrough that I cannot express what I am experiencing in mere words.
The successes that I had experienced in my life were tremendous, however, the gasoline fire in 1991, followed by 53 reconstructive surgeries and near death 4 times had changed my life radically, as you know. Since the accident it has been a struggle to exist and has taken me many years of work and prayer to become functional again.
What I accomplished through this event, with your focus, passion, and the support of the TEAM we became, has been nothing short of a miracle in my life. I am elevated to a new level with greater passion for life and a desire to effectively change the lives of others.
Craig B. Adams
Owner, Care Health & Nutrition Systems LLC, Vancouver, WA
AS A PASTOR, I WAS SKEPTICAL
This last weekend my life was radically changed. Your leadership training conference was perhaps the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I was stretched, challenged, and taught more than I ever thought possible over a three-day period.
Your conference challenged me to be a better pastor, husband, and father. My wife told me this morning, “Knowing who you are now, I don’t want the old Shawn ever again.” My kids know that I have a greater passion for teaching them God’s Word and to develop then into Kingdom leaders. My congregation knows that I want a church that is alive and active for the glory of God.
My whole life is radically changed, and as a result so is my church and my family. The first thing that I did when I got back was to get my youth pastor registered for a conference. My wife told me last night, “I want what you have, count me in.” My kids want to know if they have a retreat so they can learn to be better sons.
Shawn Newbery
Senior Pastor, Glisan Street Baptist Church, Portland, OR
