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Love: Resources to Help Clarify Your Calling

At the end of August, Tony and I took a small prop plane for a seven minute ride over the ocean to the island of Inis Mor, just off the coast of Ireland. Online, I had read about its ancient ruins and the beautiful, jagged cliffs that line its shores. I wanted to stand on the edge of those cliffs and take in the view. Only for a visitor, to get to that side of the island meant taking a tour bus or renting a bike. As we’re not tour bus people—biking it was. That morning, we stood outside the [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-10-18T18:10:14+00:00October 18th, 2018|Categories: Calling, Change, Courage, Good Books, Lead, Leadership, Leadership Tip, Learn, Life Coaching, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, podcasts I love, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Lead: Finding Your Pace

Leadership Tip #19: Find Your Pace Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year—and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! —Anthony Robbins On Monday, I challenged us to both set our pace, and make sure we have the right support team around us. This is important not only in our positions of leadership, but also in every area of our lives. If we want to thrive in the long haul, both these pieces need to be in place. Only, we can’t set our [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-10-08T15:13:48+00:00September 20th, 2018|Categories: Balance, Character, discipline, Lead, Leadership, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Setting The Pace

Did you know cycling is a team sport? Up until a few years ago, I didn’t. Because there is usually only one winner, I always assumed that cycling was just like running—but with bikes. Then one day, while Tony was watching the Tour De France, I came into the living room to see something that confused me. At that moment, the news coverage was showing footage of a group of riders traversing a narrow, winding road. They were all wearing the same jersey, and it looked like they were working together. “Why are they all wearing the same jersey? Do [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-10-08T15:14:32+00:00September 17th, 2018|Categories: Balance, Character, Courage, Friendship, perseverance, Relationships, Success, Uncategorized|4 Comments

Love Learn Lead September 13, 2018

When was the last time you were the “new kid?” Recently, in my life, I have been the new kid. The interesting thing about this for me, is that I haven’t moved towns, changed jobs, or joined a new organization. In fact, the place I have felt most like a “new kid,” has been in our dinning room turned office. Over the past few months, I have spent hours working on all that is involved in beginning my life coaching business. And the scariest, most challenging part has been learning how to build both a brand and a new website. [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-20T19:46:23+00:00September 13th, 2018|Categories: Courage, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

You’ll Figure This Out

Do you remember your first day of school? Having to figure out what classroom you belonged in, where to sit, and who to talk to? All of your new classmates and even your teacher seemed at least a little scary. And, if like me, you changed schools at an older age, that first day felt even more daunting. For some reason, the older we get, the greater the potential to feel self conscious. Because, no matter what our age, Beginning new things, in new places is always hard. As a kid, I thought new things were hard because I was [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-20T15:59:21+00:00September 10th, 2018|Categories: Change, Courage, Failure, Fear, Hope, perseverance, Uncategorized|2 Comments

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Before experiencing the insecurities and doubts that seem to plague us as teens, I wanted to be a writer. At nine-years-old, my nose was always in a book reading and I thought, someday I want to write books. But as things do, this dream got pushed to the back burner. Saved for later. Paired with the little voice that asked “do I really have what it takes? Would I be any good?” Not surprisingly, years passed. I experienced a call to ministry and found myself working at a church in my early twenties. But I still loved books, and I [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-14T14:27:48+00:00August 20th, 2018|Categories: Courage, discipline, perseverance, Routines, Success, Uncategorized|7 Comments

Learn: Three Ways I Save Time

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? —Henry David Thoreau Though I haven’t read much of Thoreau’s work, I have to admit: lately, his words are speaking to me. The man who went off into the woods to live intentionally, I feel, has a lot to say to us in 2018. Not that we should all become hermits living in nature, but rather there is something powerful about stepping out of the current of our culture. To put down our phones, and figure out the best path for us [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-20T19:10:12+00:00July 19th, 2018|Categories: Balance, discipline, Food, Health, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Routines|Comments Off

Why We Have Time

“Hey, how have you been?” My friend who I hadn’t seen in weeks, asked me. I popped up from behind the counter in the youth area of the church where I worked, to see her smiling face. “Good, just really busy.” I answered quickly. It was a Sunday. I was coming off of leading the second Jr. High service of the day, and was gearing up for a meeting with students. My friend was passing through the youth area on her way to her car after service. “How are you?” I asked, hoping she knew I really wanted to know, [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-09T21:24:15+00:00July 16th, 2018|Categories: Balance, Courage, discipline, perseverance, Routines, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Lead July 12, 2018

Hello friends. Though Thursday is usually a Love, Learn, and Lead day, today, we are solely going to focus on a Leadership Tip that I feel applies to all of us. One, that if we follow, will help us succeed in the longterm, whatever our calling or vocation. Leadership Tip #17: Get Disciplined Growing up, for me, the word discipline always meant punishment. So sometimes, I still cringe when I hear it used. But as I have gotten older, I have begun to see that there is this whole other meaning to this word that is crucial to us succeeding [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-09T21:27:41+00:00July 12th, 2018|Categories: Change, Character, discipline, Health, Lead, Leadership, Leadership Tip, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, perseverance, Purpose, Routines, Success|Comments Off

Why We Train

There is something about climbing a mountain that makes you feel as if you can conquer the world. It could be the sense of accomplishment you get when you realize you’ve reached the peak, or perhaps it’s the view. Whatever it is, it’s a good feeling. The surprising part of this experience however, is that the mountain we climb doesn’t always have to be big for us to feel it. It doesn’t always require poles or even camping gear. We don’t have to hike Everest. It is not about scaling the highest mountain, as much as it is about [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-07-09T21:28:49+00:00July 9th, 2018|Categories: Character, Courage, discipline, Health, perseverance, Purpose, Routines, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Love: Resources to Help Clarify Your Calling

Lead: Finding Your Pace

Setting The Pace

Love Learn Lead September 13, 2018

You’ll Figure This Out

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Learn: Three Ways I Save Time

Why We Have Time

Lead July 12, 2018

Why We Train

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