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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

Love Learn Lead September 6, 2018

How do we step back to take a good look at our lives, when life doesn’t seem to stop? When there’s always so much to do? And when it feels as if there’s never enough time? On Monday, I compared our lives to the peaches Tony and I picked last month. If I didn’t watch them closely—didn’t refrigerate or freeze them in time—they’d spoil. All of us have relationships, commitments, or aspects of our job that if we don’t inspect every now and then, could go sour. Or worse, go away completely. For example, how many of us put off [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-20T15:59:54+00:00September 6th, 2018|Categories: Balance, Change, discipline, Health, Lead, Learn, Life Coaching, Love, Love Learn Lead, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Step Back September

About a month ago, Tony and I went peach picking. We drove to a local farm, and bought a box big enough to fit a whole half a bushel of peaches. Then, we trudged through the wet and muddy orchard to where they were picking that day. It had rained hard the night before. Every time we’d reach up and pick a peach, all the trees’ leaves would shower water down our arms and onto our heads. But we weren’t deterred, and we came away with close to seventy beautiful peaches. What did we do with all of them, you [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-20T15:52:46+00:00September 3rd, 2018|Categories: Balance, Change, Courage, discipline, Health, Making Decisions, Routines, Success, Uncategorized|3 Comments

Love: 5 Things To Do Before Summer Ends

I’m not great at letting go. In fact, I am rather bad at it. Whenever there is a change—even a good change—I struggle. For some reason I have a hard time releasing the things I love about what has passed, to grasp onto the things I’ll love about what’s to come. And right now, for me, it’s summer. I don’t want summer to end. Perhaps it is because, as always, it has gone by too quickly. Or, that I feel as if I haven’t spent nearly as much time outside this season, as I’d like. As someone who has, in [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-20T15:35:14+00:00August 30th, 2018|Categories: Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, Uncategorized|Comments Off

When Summer Ends

When you get married, people give you all kinds of advice. I’ve heard the same is true if you have a baby, but I wouldn’t know. I do know however that so much of the advice we received leading up to our wedding day felt like clothes we couldn’t fit into yet. Everything about our relationship was new and shiny, it was hard to imagine experiencing the scuffs and bruises that life inevitably brings. So much of what people said seemed to roll off the glow of our excitement. Though there was one piece of advice, that still to this [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-08T14:04:23+00:00August 27th, 2018|Categories: Change, gratitude, Story, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Love Learn Lead August 23, 2018

Happy Thursday, friends! August is flying by, and it has already been two weeks since introducing my new Coaching Business to the world. On Monday, we celebrated my 200th post on the blog, by talking about the importance of routine in reaching our goals and making our dreams reality. Today, for our Love, Learn, Lead post, I am sharing a podcast episode I loved, to help inspire you to be courageous. I am talking about something important I’ve learned about habits and routines. And finally, I am leaving you with a leadership quote that I find challenging, but so worth [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-08T14:01:34+00:00August 23rd, 2018|Categories: Courage, Lead, Learn, Love, Love Learn Lead, podcasts I love, Routines, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Post 200

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

Lead August 16, 2018

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. —Mahatma Gandhi Leadership Tip #18: Never Stop Learning Do you remember the feeling you had in high school or college, when you couldn’t wait to graduate? When the thought of no more tests, papers, or projects brought you so much joy? Even those of us who had a decent educational experience know this feeling. Going to school in many ways makes the learning process stressful, anxiety-inducing, and even boring. But then, there are those teachers. The ones that help us understand algebra (mostly). The [...]

By Melissa Schlies|2018-08-08T14:03:06+00:00August 16th, 2018|Categories: Character, Lead, Leadership, Leadership Tip, Learn, Life Coaching, Love, Love Learn Lead, Success, Uncategorized|Comments Off

Setting The Pace

Love Learn Lead September 13, 2018

You’ll Figure This Out

Love Learn Lead September 6, 2018

Step Back September

Love: 5 Things To Do Before Summer Ends

When Summer Ends

Love Learn Lead August 23, 2018

Post 200

Lead August 16, 2018

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