by Rhett Smith | Apr 15, 2020 | Executive Coaching, Leadership, Podcast
In my ongoing conversations with Todd Sandel (CEO and founder of The SouthCity Group), we discuss the difference between personal wellness and productivity. One leads to burnout, while the other can lead to a thriving home and organization. Link to Episode...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 15, 2020 | Executive Coaching, Leadership, Podcast
Todd Sandel (CEO and founder of The SouthCity Group) and I continue our conversation about leadership during this time of uncertainty. In today’s episode we focus on the habits and routines that help leaders and their organizations thrive during this time. As...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 15, 2020 | Executive Coaching, Leadership, Videos
Todd Sandel, the CEO and founder of The SouthCity Group, and I, discuss the difference between productivity and personal wellness. One can lead to burnout, and the other to a thriving organization and relationships. Knowing the difference between the two during this...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 17, 2014 | Intentional Living
I just made it through a season where at moments I felt like I was on the verge of burnout. It just felt like a period of time when really big stuff…stuff bigger than usual was being juggled, and I was doing my best not to drop everything. Some of those things...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 20, 2010 | Leadership
I wouldn’t have known what to call it then, what questions to ask, nor what to say since it wasn’t even a topic on my radar. But looking back at that ministry I would have framed it around the topic of boundaries and self-care. The only pastoral advice I...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 6, 2010 | Parenting
Youth Ministry Youth ministry is an important topic to me because of not only my time in youth ministry as a kid, but all the time I have invested in it as a youth pastor and volunteer. Combine that with my other passion on the topic of boundaries and...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 4, 2010 | Leadership
This is the final post in a five-part series on Youth Ministry, Boundaries, and Burnout. Be sure to check out the four previous posts, Youth Ministry as a Stepping Stone (Fail), Looking at the Population You Serve, Have a Schedule, and Where’s Your Identity. If...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 1, 2010 | Leadership
This is the fourth post in a five-part series on Youth Ministry, Boundaries, and Burnout. Be sure to check out the previous posts, Youth Ministry as a Stepping Stone (Fail), Looking at the Population You Serve, and Have a Schedule. The reality is that our identity is...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 29, 2010 | Leadership
This is the third post in five part series on Youth Ministry, Boundaries, and Burnout. Be sure to check out the previous posts, Youth Ministry as a Stepping Stone (Fail), and Looking at the Population You Serve. One of the great benefits of ministry in general, but...
by Rhett Smith | Sep 24, 2010 | Leadership
On Monday I had the awesome opportunity to hang out with about 100 youth pastors in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. We were all attending a Youth Specialties luncheon, checking out their upcoming events, hearing about some of their ventures, and just having a good time...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 29, 2009 | Leadership
Recently I have been very intrigued by the topic of burnout and depression in ministry, and I have been writing on the topic mainly because it seems to not only be so prevalent, but it’s rarely talked about. In fact, I would say that the symptoms (burnout...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 28, 2009 | Leadership
Yesterday I posted the first of two interviews I did with Anne Jackson back in January of 2009. Check out part of the interview below, and read the rest of it here. From your own perspective, what is at the root behind the stigma of counseling and therapy in the...
by Rhett Smith | Jul 27, 2009 | Leadership
I had the privilege of interviewing Anne Jackson back in January 2009 on the topic of depression and burnout, especially as it relates to ministry and the church. Since I have been writing about depression over the last week I wanted to link again to her interview....
by Rhett Smith | Feb 13, 2009 | Leadership
This is my 8th and final post in my series on Depression, Burnout & Ministry. There are lots of things I wish I would have written about in this series, and lots more that has been left unsaid. Hopefully this will be an ongoing topic because it is an issue that is...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 12, 2009 | Leadership
One of my favorite writers, thinkers, philosophers, theologians, psychologists is Soren Kierkegaard. Ever since reading Fear and Trembling when I was 22 he has continued to profoundly shape my life and thinking. So it is not surprising that in the book Depression and...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 4, 2009 | Leadership
“you may have questions about whether Christians should take this or that. You get in that state, I assure you, you will take rat dung.” Pastor Tommy Nelson Why the Stigma? Let me start this post by saying this. When it comes to the issue of taking...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 2, 2009 | Leadership
Assessing Depression This is the 4th post in my series on Depression, Burnout & Ministry, and it is the one where I hope to provide some critieria of symptoms that might help us out if we are wondering about this issue. There are a variety of factors and tools...
by Rhett Smith | Jan 23, 2009 | Leadership
Today I begin the first part of a two part interview I did with Anne Jackson. I first heard about Anne around two years ago when one of my church co-workers Matt Singley kept referring to some blogger named Flowerdust. I was told that she was one of the most popular...
