Keith Lilek, Author/Speaker

09/04/2026

09/03/2026

Endings have never come easy for me.

I wrote these words during one of the hardest seasons of my life — not knowing yet that pain, when we let it, can become something else. Something closer to God.

As August closes tonight, I'm thinking about what this year has asked of each of us. The losses. The waiting. The not-knowing.

Here's what I've learned: we don't have to rush past our pain to get to peace. We can sit with it. Bring it to Him. And somehow, in His hands, it becomes gain instead of just grief.
Wherever you are tonight — closing a chapter, missing someone, or just tired — I hope these words find you gently.

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08/31/2026

Back-to-school season always pulls me back to being a kid on the playground, watching teams get picked. Even then, something in me understood: you wanted the better players on your side. Not because it was fair, but because instinct told you they'd help you win.

I don't think that instinct ever really leaves us. On the basketball court, I sought out the better players. In school, I wanted to be around the kids who pushed me to think harder. Years later, in sales, I found myself doing the same thing, seeking out the best in the field, not just to admire them from a distance, but to learn what they did daily, not just generally.

So as your kids, or maybe you, head into a new school year, I think it's worth pausing to ask: who are the "better players" you're choosing to surround yourself with this year? I've come to believe that champions aren't just made on the field. They're also made in who we choose to learn from.

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08/18/2026

Remember, as we head into this NFL season, our sports heroes are more than just a uniform! 

08/18/2026

Don’t underestimate the power of the people around us and their ability to lift us up! 

08/18/2026

Lifting hearts and souls…

08/17/2026

I've never thought of myself as a songwriter. Poet, yes. Author, sure. But somewhere in the process of writing about what it actually means to live out our priorities, not just talk about them, I found that the sonnets weren't enough to carry what I was trying to say. So the words became melodies, almost without my permission.

That's how these two albums came to be. They're my second language for the same message I've been trying to live out for years: God, spouse, kids, work, in that order, and on purpose.

Living Life's Priorities: God & Spouse is where it all has to begin. Get those two right, and everything else has a real chance to fall into place.

Living Life's Priorities: Kids & Work is where I've found the rubber actually meets the road, the place where what we say we value either shows up in our daily lives, or quietly gets left behind.

I don't think of one album as more important than the other. They're two halves of the same whole, and I hope you'll spend time with both.

And as with everything I've put out into the world, 100% of the proceeds go to charity, because that, too, is part of the priority.

🎧 Stream now on Apple Music:
God & Spouse → keithlilek.com/us/album/living-lifes-priorities-god-spouse/1842168479
Kids & Work → music.apple.com/us/album/living-lifes-priorities-kids-work/1842274666

Also available on Spotify.

08/14/2026

Summer's winding down, and for me that always brings a season of looking back before looking ahead. Are you happy with who you've become? I am — but I didn't get here by myself.

Every mentor God placed in my path, for a season or a lifetime, shaped some part of who I am today. None of us get here alone.

Who are the mentors this summer has reminded you of? Have you told them lately what they meant to you?

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