Your scars don’t make you less. In fact, they can make you more. They show that you’ve lived life. You survived. Now you are ready to thrive. If you think about a scar, it is an injury that was once open and raw. But look at it now. There it is, a miraculous regeneration of […]
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Working with colleagues recently on a personal and professional growth piece on understanding purpose, vision and mission, we had a strong sense that none of that can happen meaningfully if we don’t have a clear understanding of our core values. Your core values are your most fundamental beliefs and establish the foundation of standards, behaviors
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Are you showing up every day with open arms and open eyes? This might just be one of the biggest day-to-day challenges we all face. Can we face every single day open to what it may bring? I’m not suggesting we don’t plan and organize what we already know. There’s a certain structure we must
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“You can’t let him get away with that!” were the words spewed in “encouragement” after a particularly bitter and heated exchange. For most of us, our first thought after a conflict is about how we can respond so that we can prove ourselves and appear tough. Often that response is retaliatory and prompted by the
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Fear pops up a lot in the midst of making significant life changes, whether it is a fear of failure, a fear of rejection, a fear of the unknown. It is interesting to note that the Bible addresses the need to “fear not” more than 300 times. Do you think it has been a significant barrier
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I will admit that I have always been a gotta-see-it-to-believe-it kind of guy. Makes sense, right? Actually, most of us probably are to varying degrees. I have come to understand the opposite of that. If you want to see something in life, you have to believe it is possible first. There is great potential in
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Where is the breakdown between knowing what we know and turning that gift of knowledge into application? What is it that will turn our willingness to take action into the act that moves us forward? I am trying to become more aware of those moments that I say, “I know”, but have not done anything
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Everyone gets down from time to time. What do you do when disappointment gets the best of you? We all deal with it in some way. Sometime we wallow, push through, drown it out, often all of the above. I will share one strategy that probably isn’t at the top of your mind when you’re
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All of the Labels You’ve Been Given Don’t Have to Stick Any labels you deal with that seem excessively “sticky” and hard to detach from who you really are? I often hear people say, “I’m so ADD”. Remember that labels are human constructs. They are a part of language to describe characteristics and they carry
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Imagine with me that you are out on the land with your clan for a hunting expedition. Spear in hand, you enter a clearing, slowly, cautiously, stepping along a line of thickets holding amongst its prickled strands, plump crimson berries. You halt your weary tribe-mates for some much needed nourishment. In short time, you sense a
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