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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

How to Know It’s Time to Make a Job Change Part 2

A few years ago, I read the Divergent Series by Veronica Roth. Yes, sometimes I can’t help myself when it comes to YA novels. In the first book, the main character, Tris Prior, has to choose her profession and identity in an elaborate ceremony in front of the entire city. Living in a post-apocalyptic Chicago, Tris has to choose between the five factions that divide the entire population. Like taking a virtual reality version of the SAT, prior to the ceremony, Tris and her classmates took a test to tell them which faction would suit them best. Then they had [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-08-30T20:07:51+00:00September 19th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Calling, Change, Courage, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Making Decisions|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

Five Tools That Make My Life Better—& May Make Your’s Better Too!

When we got married, Tony had these two identical kitchen knives. As they cut better than any knives I owned, they became our go-to for making dinner. We both love to cook, especially together. So after nine years of marriage, these knives have become well-worn. Recently, after some frustrating incidents of trying to cut steak or even normal raw potatoes, it became clear that we needed some new knives. Tony found some online, and they were delivered to our door. Then about a week later, I went to make a meal that involved chopping a lot of vegetables. As I [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-08-17T20:04:25+00:00August 29th, 2019|Categories: Adulting, Balance, Declutter Your Mind, Habit Making, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Success, Uncategorized|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

Three Lies We Believe About Exercise

At the beginning of this summer, Tony pulled out our bikes. He dusted them off, pumped up the tires, and loaded them on the back of our car. Then, for a few weekends in a row, we hit some of our local trails. It had been a few years since we had been biking, and I’d forgotten how much fun it can be. Each ride, we went for a longer distance than we had before. We found a trail nearby that is mostly paved and shaded, which became our favorite. Tony and I were having a great time and I [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-08-15T11:48:14+00:00August 15th, 2019|Categories: #mybodyhas, Body Image, Habit Making, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Routines, 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

My Summer Bucket List

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” —Regina Brett Friends, can you believe it is the first day of August? My mind can’t even wrap itself around this fact. Though this means we technically have seven weeks left of summer, it feels like we only have four. Many of us have a fall schedule that begins when September does, cutting our summers short. In other words, Summer is going to be [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-07-29T16:09:04+00:00August 1st, 2019|Categories: Balance, Habit Making, Health, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Preparation, Saying No, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Love: Books That Have Changed My Life

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

How to Know It’s Time to Make a Job Change Part 2

Five Changes I Wish I’d Made In My Twenties

Love Learn Lead September 5, 2019

Five Tools That Make My Life Better—& May Make Your’s Better Too!

Love Learn Lead August 22, 2019

Three Lies We Believe About Exercise

Love Learn Lead August 8, 2019

My Summer Bucket List

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