People tell me I ask good questions. It is not really a surprise. I have been asking questions for as long as I can remember. As a child I asked questions because I believed the people around me knew the answers. Life for me was built on finding answers. The only way I knew to find […]
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Each of us can become a leader. Our challenge is finding the leadership potential within us and translating that potential into actions. Some people take a focused, intentional approach to discovering their leadership. They learn as much as they can then try to apply those lessons in their own work. They may be ambitious, looking for
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There are people who seem to think spiritual life is super human. Some of us appear to believe in superheroes with special powers to help us get out of trouble. Other people have faith in their own ability to control life and create positive results. For other people, spiritual life is so far beyond them they prefer
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How many people do we trust? Where do we find the balance between being too trusting and too skeptical? We want leaders we can trust. Each of us might express it in slightly different ways, with words like authenticity, honesty, communicator. We look for leaders who can be trusted to tell us the truth. We do
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There are people who see spiritual life as if they were geese standing on a lakeshore. It is a challenge for them to get anywhere walking around on land. They may paddle across the surface of the lake, though it takes a lot of hard work. They are not comfortable. They may sense they are not
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It is ironic that “discerning” is one of those words we think we understand but cannot explain. We may say that someone has a discerning eye, or is a person of discernment. We mean we appreciate their taste or opinion, we agree with them. We rely on our own ability to discern to understand how discerning
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Leadership is a dance. We need to learn the steps. 1. Spend Time Getting Comfortable with Yourself. Our leadership is a product of how we know ourselves. We can study masterful technique from great teachers, but we dance our own leadership steps. Our knowledge about leadership needs to be demonstrated in how we dance. We cannot lead other people effectively until
Where I live, which is not a particularly traditional place, we are driving ourselves into a season of traditions. We have forgotten the time we took to relax over the summer. We have plunged into the traditions of back to school and football season. Many stores are already trying to sell us our own holiday traditions. We look
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We blanket our lives with routines and habits, wrapping them in expectations and assumptions. They protect us from what we fear, what intimidates us, what causes our anxieties. When we are afraid we will fail, afraid we might succeed, we anesthetize ourselves. When we are afraid we will always be alone, or we may never have a moment’s peace,
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Many of us hope for smooth sailing with a nice breeze at our backs, pushing us gently along. We would like our flight to be calm, free from bumpy turbulence. We trust the boat and the plane, the sail and the pilot, when we have a nice, easy trip. There are, though, leaders who come into their own
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