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Lead May 10, 2018

This month, I want to help equip you with some lessons I have learned over the years, about being a leader. For this reason, every Thursday in May, I will share one of my leadership tips. If you are just beginning your leadership journey, it is my hope that these will give you some practical help in fully embracing your current role. Or, if you’ve been leading for a while that they will assist you as you begin empowering others to lead. For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned. —Benjamin Franklin Leadership Tip #11: Get Organized Very [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-11T00:34:55+00:00May 10th, 2018|Categories: Lead, Leadership, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

When Leader’s Run

When I was in high school, every one of my classmates were made to run a mile in gym—including me. I, who had terrible asthma, could barely run a lap around the football field, and even had a doctors note—still had to get out there and try. During this time, I used to wonder why we all had to run. It was obvious some of us were athletes and others of us were definitely not (hello, doctor’s note!). Wouldn’t it make more sense for some of us to run, some of us to walk, and still others of us, to [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-11T00:37:16+00:00May 7th, 2018|Categories: Courage, Leadership, Uncategorized|8 Comments

Lead May 3, 2018

Often, when we start out in our careers, we don’t think about the leadership that will be involved. Instead we focus so much on the reason we first went into our profession, like serving people, creating things, or even the money. We don’t realize how much of our role will require leading those around us. Or, perhaps we started in a job with very few leadership responsibilities, but now we’re looking to make a change. And the new path we are considering requires leading others—maybe even more than we ever saw ourselves doing. Either way, at some point in our [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-11T00:37:53+00:00May 3rd, 2018|Categories: Lead, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Mentoring, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Second Hand Brave

“Wouldn’t it be cool if…” We’ve all thought. Sometimes, we’ve even said it out loud. Only often, we’ve followed our BIG, wonderful words with “But…” Then a slew of reasons for why our epiphany, idea, or dream just couldn’t possibly work, fill our mind. Or, they pour out of the mouths of those around us. It’s always easier to doubt. Count the cost, measure the risk, and feel we’re coming up short. Only lately, I have been wondering about all the promising ideas we’ve let go by the wayside. Because we didn’t believe in them enough. They seemed like too [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-07T10:54:50+00:00April 30th, 2018|Categories: Courage, Friendship, perseverance, Success, Uncategorized|6 Comments

Love Learn Lead April 26, 2018

Whenever I am in a hard season, and I am facing a daunting obstacle, I feel like I go into gamer mode. Now, I don’t play video games, so I don’t know that this metaphor is fully accurate, but in these times, I zone in. I focus all my energies around a certain problem and try to come up with the best plan of attack. I find myself looking for the right button to pulverize the issue stressing me out. Only, there’s no remote in life that does that. Friends, we have just about made it through the gloomier month [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-09T21:23:05+00:00April 26th, 2018|Categories: Lead, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Uncategorized, Waiting|Comments Off

In Between

I started thinking about my high school graduation in eighth grade. I blame it on the fact that my older sister had just started college, and when I went to visit her on campus, I wanted to stay. College life looked so cool. Then, I started “dating” a senior. I would say blame that on the fact our school was eighth through twelfth grade, except we met at the local ice skating rink. Going to the same school only encouraged the relationship. “Senior Boyfriend” introduced me to his other friends who were also seniors, and all of them too had [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-09T21:22:26+00:00April 23rd, 2018|Categories: Hope, perseverance, Uncategorized, Waiting|6 Comments

Love Learn Lead April 19, 2018

Hello Friends. We have made it past the middle of April. Hopefully, wherever you are, there are promising signs of spring—and not more rain than necessary. This weekend, Tony and I are gearing up for a trip to the Finger Lakes, in New York, with our closest friends. A few snow storms earlier this month, made winter feel that much longer and we are ready to get out of town. We are praying for good weather, but know that whatever we get we are going to make the most of the weekend. I hope that no matter your weekend plans, [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-11T00:42:22+00:00April 19th, 2018|Categories: Good Books, Identity, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Uncategorized|Comments Off

What Do You Believe?

It may be strange to talk about a Christmas movie in April, but I am going to. One of my favorite Christmas movies that makes me laugh so hard, is Elf. Though I know Will Ferrell is an acquired taste, in this movie he cracks me up. Every time he starts to sing (“I’m in a store, and I’m singing…”), or attacks people for their lack of genuine Christmas spirit (“You sit on a throne of lies…”), I just can’t even. But as outlandish as this movie is, there is a part of Buddy the Elf’s story we can all [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-11T00:44:40+00:00April 16th, 2018|Categories: Change, Freedom, Health, perseverance, Uncategorized|1 Comment

Learning, It’s Up To You

You know those times when someone older and wiser, gets up on their soap box, then begins their latest diatribe with the words: “There are two kinds of people in this world…” It’s always bothered me. Mostly because I find humanity to be extremely eclectic and varied. But also because to break up people into two camps seems very narrow-minded. Only, today—that is what I am going to do. Not because I think there really are only two kinds of people, but rather because in life, there are choices all of us have where there are only two options. An [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-11T00:49:57+00:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Change, Courage, Fear, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

What You Can Do

Confession: There are days life overwhelms me. If I were to take this confession a litter further, I would also admit I have more overwhelming days than I’d like. I have mornings where I feel the weight of writing something that will matter. Days when our world’s brokenness feels beyond repair. Afternoons where the changes I’ve been praying for and working toward, feel like they will never happen. And nights where I just feel too tired to do it all again tomorrow. Life is hard. At times it feels a little too impossible. And I’m sensing, you can relate. Because, [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-16T19:24:47+00:00April 9th, 2018|Categories: Change, Courage, Fear, perseverance, Purpose, Success, Uncategorized|1 Comment

About Melissa Schlies

Lead May 10, 2018

When Leader’s Run

Lead May 3, 2018

Second Hand Brave

Love Learn Lead April 26, 2018

In Between

Love Learn Lead April 19, 2018

What Do You Believe?

Learning, It’s Up To You

What You Can Do

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