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

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

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

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 |2018-07-11T00:49:57+00:00April 12th, 2018|Categories: Change, Courage, Fear, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Learning, It’s Up To You

Love Learn Lead April 5, 2018

It seems almost unfair that the grey skies of winter often give way to the rainy days of spring, before the sun finally warms our days more consistently. Conversely, last week, I saw a friend who lives in the desert out west. She told me that other than a few weeks a year, every day is sunny where she lives. And I wondered, would I miss the rain, if I lived in the desert? Important things happen in the rainy, in between months. Here in the Northeast, it is when the first plants of the season begin to take root. [...]

By |2018-07-16T19:28:37+00:00April 5th, 2018|Categories: Hope, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, podcasts I love, Uncategorized, Waiting|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead April 5, 2018

Love On April Fools

B&B hosts tell the best stories. If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, or if you follow my Instagram, you know I love to travel. For me and Tony, it’s probably our favorite thing to do together. Early in our marriage, we discovered we really enjoy staying at Bed and Breakfasts. AirB&B or traditional B&B’s, we are in. And on our travels, we’ve had some incredible hosts. One of our favorite’s, we’ll call her “V,” we met in Northern Ireland. We stayed in her charming B&B for a few days, while checking out Giant’s Causeway, Dunluce Castle, and [...]

By |2018-03-29T06:30:19+00:00March 29th, 2018|Categories: Courage, Faith, Freedom, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Story, Uncategorized|7 Comments

Love: Storytellers I Love

Art has a way of bringing truth in through the backdoor. In other words, if I was to tell you something uncomfortable, yet true, I could say it to your face. Say the words as clearly as can be, and you could choose to ignore me. Or I could write my message in big letters on cardboard, stand on the corner outside your house, and yell at you as you passed by. Chances are though, it would only shut you down. But if I painted you a picture. Sang you a song. Told you a story. Rather than reason with [...]

By |2018-07-16T21:21:43+00:00March 22nd, 2018|Categories: Courage, Hope, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Story, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Love: Storytellers I Love

Learning to Tell Your Story

There is this part in Brene Brown’s book, Rising Strong, in which she shares a phrase that helps her deal with conflict. Whether experiencing tension with her husband, friend, or a co-worker, this one phrase helps her open up a healthy and calm dialogue. The phrase begins like this: “The story I am telling myself is…” In other words, if someone does something that feels hurtful or unexpected—rather than blowing up at the person—she examines her story. You know, the story we all tell ourselves when things like this happen. Stories like “He didn’t call me, he must be mad [...]

By |2018-07-16T21:37:58+00:00March 15th, 2018|Categories: Change, Courage, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Mental Health, Story, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Learning to Tell Your Story

#metoo

“It’s not the lips of a prince that will save us, but our own lips speaking.” —Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds Over the past year, the victims of sexual assault and harassment were finally given a microphone. Where so many, for so long, were silenced, a collective sigh was felt as finally truths were spoken. Light was cast on not simply one-time offenses, but rather repeated patterns of abuse and misuse. And men who were made gods in our culture, toppled from their pedestals. Suddenly oblivious men posted on social media that it wasn’t safe to be a [...]

By |2018-07-17T00:38:05+00:00March 8th, 2018|Categories: Freedom, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Story, Uncategorized|Comments Off on #metoo

Love Learn Lead March 1, 2018

Maybe being a writer makes me a little biased, but I think as human beings, we have a thing for stories. How else could we explain our need to binge watch TV shows? Or why we wait in long lines when our favorite books are turned into movies? More than any of these though, the thing that has convinced me of this, is my years speaking to teenagers. Every Sunday morning for over seven years, I used to give a message to seventh and eighth graders. Often, I’d look out into their young faces to find them sleeping, texting, or [...]

By |2018-07-17T00:49:43+00:00March 1st, 2018|Categories: Lead, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Purpose, Story|Comments Off on Love Learn Lead March 1, 2018

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