No one is perfect and few fully adjusted. In other words, most of us are like cracked pots: We have the promise of potential but with a few leaks and if the strain gets too great our insides show. The goal isn’t to repair the cracks – they’re life long – but to make our inside beautiful so that when we’re strained people experience grace instead of grief. After all, isn’t that the kind of leader you’d want leading your enterprise?
Read MoreDiscerning the story of our life can be very rewarding but like most things we do having an example helps, especially one that enables us to feel less strange about who we are.
Read MoreIt’s said to be “more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.” In this light the demand to know direction and “do something” isn’t always a leader’s best counsel. In fact, the busyness of doing can get in the way of the business of being and become a way to defer taking a look at yourself.
Read MoreThe thought of quitting a task or not completing a goal carries disappointment for others and us. Yet is that reason enough to press-on? Do we ever reach a place in our pursuits when the encouragement to “Don’t Quit” can be the wrong advice?
Read MoreThink it might be true that our life is shaped to do a particular thing? What if it were possible to know “that thing?” Would you be interested?The question comes largely from my own journey, as does the answer. But I’m joined by a host of others who agree that our lives aren’t meant for aimless wandering or to be filled with unsatisfying work.
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