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 […]
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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 […]
What long-term projects are you working on?
The Duomo in Milan, Italy took 600 years to build. That means generation after generation believing in the project, sharing the vision, making a contribution, and passing it along.When we work on a long-term project, we have to do the same thing. Maybe not for 600 years, but even 600 hours or 600 days can […]
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 […]
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 […]