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Love: Books That Have Changed My Life

If you are reader, chances are there have been a few books that you didn’t want to put down. Books, you didn’t want to end. And perhaps even, books that changed your life. As we’ve been talking about change this month on the blog, I couldn’t help but think of all the many things in life that change us. Relationships, jobs, trauma and surprisingly good opportunities—all have the power to alter not only our life’s path, but also who we are in our very being. The interesting thing though, is so can art. A good song can reframe an experience [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-10-02T15:43:18+00:00October 3rd, 2019|Categories: Change, Good Books, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Moving Far From Home

Years ago, I talked to an expat who had lived overseas for over thirty years. He said that after being away from your country of origin for ten years, your sense of where you come from shifts. Your idea of home gets muddled. Because all your recent history has been spent in a place other than where you grew up, you begin to feel like you belong where you are, more than where you’re from. Living in a different culture for so many years, I am sure, enhanced his experience even more so. But now, after living fifteen years in [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-09-04T13:32:33+00:00September 26th, 2019|Categories: Acceptance, Adulting, Change, Freedom, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Preparation, Travel, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Five Changes I Wish I’d Made In My Twenties

Life is hard. There are dreams or goals we work for without any guarantee that they will ever happen. There are difficult family relationships for us to navigate. Friendships that never last as long as we’d like. Physical or mental ailments or allergies that wear us down or threaten to hold us back. And don’t even get me started on dating or marriage. Only sometimes, we are so focused on these things that we can’t see our biggest obstacle to living healthier and more joyful lives—is ourselves. Where some of our everyday behaviors are tripping us up. And possibly, even [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-08-30T19:50:23+00:00September 12th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Balance, Change, Habit Making, Health, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Mental Health, Preparation|1 Comment

Love Learn Lead September 5, 2019

Has someone close to you ever said something about you that was hard to hear? The first time this happens it is annoying or frustrating, but because it’s the first time, you can brush it off. Only, if they say it again, or someone else close to you says the same thing in a totally unrelated situation, it’s hard to ignore. It’s not comfortable when people know us. When they know not just the good parts, but also the parts of us we wish weren’t true. In this way, our loved ones are mirrors we often don’t want to look [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-08-30T19:30:01+00:00September 5th, 2019|Categories: Balance, Change, Friendship, Habit Making, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead August 22, 2019

Every now and then, I hear a woman my age or older lament that they didn’t have Pinterest when they got married. That it would have been so much easier to plan their wedding if they had been able to pin countless ideas of what to do for centerpieces. But whenever I hear this, I disagree. Yes, there are certainly benefits to having a million decorative ideas at our fingertips. Especially, for those of us who are design challenged. But what I am finding with Pinterest and so much of our online world, is that on some level, it is [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-08-17T18:58:00+00:00August 22nd, 2019|Categories: Balance, Change, Declutter Your Mind, Health, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead August 8, 2019

In my previous life, ok about eight years ago, I was a youth pastor. For part of my job, a couple of times a year, I would take a group of teens on trips. Sometimes they were mission trips to other countries, during the winters it was weekend retreats, and for a few summers we used to take over a hundred teenagers on a four day camping trip to a music festival. You read that right, over a hundred students. I am sure there are ministries who have much bigger groups than we did, but it was quite an undertaking. [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-07-29T20:09:37+00:00August 8th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Change, Habit Making, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Leadership Tip #23: Learn How to Get Back Up

I was an honor student in high school. Maybe you’ve figured that out by now. Not because I am amazing, but perhaps because I am amazingly detailed. Or at least, I try as hard as I can to be. As a kid who grew up in a good home that faced its fair share of crisis, details became very important to me. The more details I was able to keep track of, at home and at school, the more I could keep things from falling apart. Even better, the greater chance I could succeed. The thing about being an honor [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-07-11T13:54:11+00:00July 18th, 2019|Categories: Courage, Failure, Fear, Lead, Leadership, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Making Decisions, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

My Favorite Summer Reads for 2019

Did I ever tell you, I grew up near the ocean? Now landlocked, I have to say I miss it much more than I thought I would. Just recently, during a stressful week, I joked to Tony that I was going to put my headphones on, and turn my white noise app to the sound of the ocean. Then, sit out on our porch in the sun, close my eyes, and pretend I was at the beach. The ocean is my happy place. Of course, another one of my happy places is curled up somewhere reading. So if I could [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-06-03T16:14:14+00:00June 6th, 2019|Categories: Good Books, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Five Ways to Better Communicate With Your Spouse

It was a warm, sunny day, and the stone streets felt hard under my sandaled feet. There was an event going on in the city so there were people everywhere I looked. We were on a small and winding medieval street in the middle of Siena, Italy. Tony was walking a little ways behind me, but I didn’t stop. I was upset. Only I wasn’t even sure why. All I knew was it felt like Tony and I were speaking a different language. I felt unseen, and like I could cry any minute. That is why I was breaking one [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-05-23T13:53:55+00:00May 30th, 2019|Categories: Conflict, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Marriage, Relationships, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Does Your Marriage Need a Chore Chart?

You know you had one. Whether it was in your head or your diary, posted on your mirror or hidden deep in your heart—when you were single, you had a list. Though it maybe embarrassing to admit now, because as least at one point it described a movie star more than anyone you knew in real life, you had one. You had a list of what you were looking for in a spouse. Tall or short, athletic or nerdy, you had some sort of picture in your head of who you wanted to marry. Maybe even down to what color [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-05-07T19:44:57+00:00May 16th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Conflict, Habit Making, Lead, Leadership, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Marriage, Relationships, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Love: Books That Have Changed My Life

Five Things I Wish Someone Told Me About Moving Far From Home

Five Changes I Wish I’d Made In My Twenties

Love Learn Lead September 5, 2019

Love Learn Lead August 22, 2019

Love Learn Lead August 8, 2019

Leadership Tip #23: Learn How to Get Back Up

My Favorite Summer Reads for 2019

Five Ways to Better Communicate With Your Spouse

Does Your Marriage Need a Chore Chart?

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