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Love: Great Podcasts to Start the New Year

Do you ever feel like there isn’t enough time in the day to read all the books you want to read? Or to learn all the things you want to learn? I feel that way more times than I can count. That is why I love podcasts. Podcasts can give you twenty to sixty minutes of good information right in your ears as you drive to the grocery store, fold laundry, or workout in the gym. Sometimes, the people being interviewed are the authors of the books we want to read. And we can learn some great stuff even if [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-01-31T15:42:19+00:00January 31st, 2019|Categories: Habit Making, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, podcasts I love, Preparation, Purpose, Routines, Success|Comments Off

All That Didn’t Happen in 2018

Last January, Tony and I took a ride down to Baltimore early on a Saturday morning. We found parking, then walked to the Barnes and Noble at Inner Harbor. There, we ordered hot beverages and set up shop in the cafe. Armed with the pdf of a Dream Guide I found online, we began plotting what we wanted 2018 to look like. Other than a break for lunch and a quick walk in the sunshine, we were there all day. We reflected on 2017, going over what routines or goals worked and what didn’t. We named and even redefined [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2019-01-05T21:09:13+00:00January 7th, 2019|Categories: Balance, Change, Courage, discipline, Purpose, Success, Uncategorized|6 Comments

When Your Path is Different

It was almost nine in the morning, and if I didn’t hurry, I might be late to my meeting. I grabbed my purse and notebook from the passenger seat, and got out of my car. It was late fall, and flurries had just begun to fly through the air. As I crossed the parking lot, I pulled my unzipped denim jacket around me and hugged my notebook to my chest, to try to keep warm. Just up ahead of me, I saw another youth pastor also hurrying to get to our local youth worker meeting. When we got to the [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-10-08T15:09:43+00:00October 15th, 2018|Categories: Calling, Courage, Making Decisions, Purpose, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Learn: How to Find Your Why

“I went here and there and everywhere in search of my ‘calling,’ proving that this process is anything but a perfectly straight line, where one point leads predictably to the next. And while I don’t begrudge any of the wild experiences I’ve had along the way, for the simple fact that each of them taught me something I didn’t yet know, I wish I’d been able to embrace my own unique journey and avoid the bait of a you-should-do-this sort of life.” —Jessica Honegger, Imperfect Courage When I was a kid and people asked me what I wanted to be [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-10-08T15:08:57+00:00October 11th, 2018|Categories: Calling, Lead, Learn, Life Coaching, Love, Love Learn Lead, Purpose, Uncategorized|Comments Off

What is Your Why

When I was seventeen, I remember praying and asking God to use me for good in this world. I wanted my life to count. But I had no idea how. I didn’t fully know or understand my strengths or my weaknesses. And unlike so many of my fellow overachieving friends, I didn’t have a plan for my life. College was mere months away, and I had no clue what to major in. I wanted to do something that mattered, but I felt lost. I share this today, because on some level, I believe you can relate. I believe we all [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-10-03T18:59:22+00:00October 8th, 2018|Categories: Calling, Change, Courage, Hope, Life Coaching, Purpose, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead October 4, 2018

Happy fall, friends! I hope wherever you are, the weather is cool not cold, the leaves are turning a lovely shade of red or yellow, and there are pumpkin spice latte’s or hot apple cider in abundance. But only, if you’re into this season the way I am. The first day of fall for us in Pennsylvania was sunny and comfortably in the sixties. The summer humidity lifted, and I was able to wear flannel and bake in our apartment without overheating—which made me so happy. But something that makes me even happier than fall, is whenever I see someone [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-10-03T18:47:53+00:00October 4th, 2018|Categories: Calling, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Making Decisions, Purpose, Success, Uncategorized|2 Comments

All That You Are

"Who were you before anybody told you who you were?” --Jo Saxton, The Dream of You When was the last time someone asked you, “Who are you?” The chances that it has been recent or often, my guess is slim. Because usually, when we first meet someone, we ask them, “What do you do?” Or, if we’re vacationing abroad like we were a month ago, and we meet fellow travelers, we ask, “Where are you from?” Very rarely do we try to learn another’s entire identity in one meeting. Rather, we start with an aspect we are most comfortable asking [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-10-08T15:11:57+00:00October 1st, 2018|Categories: Calling, Identity, Purpose, Story, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Remembering Who We Are

When I was nineteen, I took sixteen teenagers for a four day camping retreat up in the mountains of New Hampshire. To be clear, there were other adults on the trip, but I was in charge. How a church and all these kids’ parents were ok with it, I will never know. Yet, the whole trip proved to be life-defining for me. Ironically, even as a church trusted me with the majority of its youth group, at that time I was still doubting my call to ministry. I had been told by some pretty influential people in my life that [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-08T14:07:12+00:00August 13th, 2018|Categories: Identity, Life Coaching, Purpose, Uncategorized|4 Comments

Finding Your Sweet Spot

Do you know what you’re good at? I mean, how you’re really and truly gifted? When I was a kid learning basketball, I found a place on the court where I could make basket after basket. My coach called it my “sweet spot.” Do you know what your sweet spot is? That place in life where you shine? Chances are, you have more than one. In high school, I remember searching for my sweet spots in hopes that they’d give me a better understanding of who I was. I watched as others found recognition on the field, stage, and even [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-05T20:40:18+00:00August 6th, 2018|Categories: Change, Life Coaching, Mentoring, Purpose, Success, Uncategorized|4 Comments

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

Love: Great Podcasts to Start the New Year

All That Didn’t Happen in 2018

When Your Path is Different

Learn: How to Find Your Why

What is Your Why

Love Learn Lead October 4, 2018

All That You Are

Remembering Who We Are

Finding Your Sweet Spot

Lead July 12, 2018

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