What’s on your list of “hobbies and skills I will never attempt in public”?My answers range from needlepoint to juggling to the board game Settlers of Catan.But what happens when we don’t try things that would actually improve our lives, simply because we fear failure? Things like having a hard conversation with a co-worker, reaching […]
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What dream would you like to explore in reality over the next six months?
What dream would you like to explore into reality over the next six months?Discern by Doing is open for new group members. It’s for the dreamers who want to be doers. It’s for the faithful servants who have outgrown their current way of serving. It’s for the people who assume that the story inside them […]
What’s on your current reading list?
What’s on your current reading list? My group coaching clients all committed to read and discuss “Dare to Lead” by Brene Brown. One of them suggested it because it falls well within the topics we discuss during our live video chats twice a month. It turns out that living your calling takes many of the […]
What is the most joyful disruption of the past twelve months for you?
Part of my role at the Extravaganza this weekend was to interview people in the lobby for footage to weave throughout the six big gatherings at our convention for Lutherans who work with children and youth. One of my questions was, “how would you define the word disruption?”Inconvenient. Problematic. Stressful. Annoying. Being forced to find […]
When the system doesn’t work, you work around the system.
When the system doesn’t work, you work around the system.Here, it’s the state of New York working around the federal government to continue to educate tourists and school groups about the important role of immigrants in our nation’s history. The system isn’t working, so they’re working around the system.But working around the system is not […]
What are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for?You wait for some things because they are out of your control. (Hello, New York City subway system.)You wait for some things because they are better after a short pause (hello, boiling water poured over a tea bag.)But you wait for some things unnecessarily. You make up reason that you have […]
Show your inner fiesta to scatter some happiness today.
Yesterday was 3 Kings, the day we have a piñata every year after church. It was especially fun this year after singing “The Piñata Song” as one of my production numbers in “Away in the Basement.”.The lyrics (by Drew Jansen) could have almost been a theme song for my coaching workshops:“Everyone has gifts that are […]