For the past while I feel like I’ve been missing that big picture view. Sort of like on a hike when you climb up a ridge you get to see the expanse, you see for miles and miles. Soon you descend into the foothills, trees, and valley floor and you forget what it looked like.Continue reading "Climbing Up the Next Ridge"
Planning, Preparedness, and Being Totally, Completely, and Utterly Ready for Any and All…
It’s just not possible. In Support I hate being wrong. I disdain not knowing or being unable to help the customer. What’s more, in leadership, I grow weary of not only not having all the answers (or the ways to find them) but sending my team to work without equipping them 110%. That’s such aContinue reading "Planning, Preparedness, and Being Totally, Completely, and Utterly Ready for Any and All…"
Liberation
“I don’t know.” That’s one of the most powerfully freeing phrases we can say. It frees us to be honest. To admit mistakes. To be real. We can hoard and retain all day in fear, or we can relax, release, and reconnect truthfully with others. We live in community. No one seriously expects us toContinue reading "Liberation"
Lots of Time Spent Pruning
I feel like this winter there’s been a lot of pruning that’s been happening. I hope that means this summer much fruit will come. It would feel like a waste if I didn’t see much fruit from all the piercing and slicing pruning. Yet I’ve wrestled with this question for the past four weeks: isContinue reading "Lots of Time Spent Pruning"
Don’t Let Your Mind Go…Or It Will
You can see those people that want to keep their mind sharp, and others that just slowly fade away…On the flip side, sometimes people try to keep their mind sharp and it just doesn’t, and sometimes people don’t care but it stays sharp. But rolling the dice of chance throwing intentionality to the wind. ButContinue reading "Don’t Let Your Mind Go…Or It Will"
Jeff Beaumont 