If you are wondering if I can balance on the subway without holding the pole long enough to open a bottle of Diet Coke, the answer is yes. Yes I can.A sure sign of someone visiting New York City is someone who boards the train and does not immediately either sit or figure out where […]
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Confronting new opportunities
Just wrapped another online coaching group. One of the things on which we reflected was our personal tendencies when confronted with a new opportunity.I research a little, but once I’m convinced that it will move me toward my goals I take action, and then learn more as I go. Another person was happy dwelling in […]
Be brave today.
Everything you want, that you feel called to do, all starts with being brave.Asking for help. Stepping up for that promotion. Breaking a habit that has kept you safe but unhealthy. Being the first to say “I love you.” Saying it back. It all starts with being brave.We’re called to big things. Take the next […]
Spring cleaning
Spring? Is that you? It’s hard to tell from where I’m standing.I spent part of the first day of spring doing a 3-hour one-on-one retreat with a coaching client. It was sort of a spring cleaning for her life: intentionally cutting out unhelpful patterns and designing her daily rhythms to create the feelings she wants […]
Stop to strategize an everyday situation.
Today is all about connecting with people who signed up to talk after this congregational retreat I led last weekend. What’s on your plate?As I connect with people who attended this retreat, it strikes me how each of them are positioned to be leaders in their own way, in their own context. They are not […]
What do you love about winter?
Spending the weekend in Minnesota.I get to spend 24 hours with a coaching client in Minnesota who is making a big decision about her career, and then another client who is recalibrating into a new chapter of life after getting a graduate degree. I’ll love that part.I also can’t wait to lead a Friday/Saturday women’s […]
In what ways are you called to be an artist?
In adulthood, creativity comes in many forms: visual, performing, elegant problem-solving, landscaping, fashion, woodworking, choreography, photography, helping a toddler control her emotions, crafting a sermon, finding a compromise that feels good to everyone, advocating for change, making up a new game. In what way(s) are you called to be an artist?
What’s on your list of “hobbies and skills I will never attempt in public”?
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 […]
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 […]