I was talking with a friend and there are many, many things we do for others. Yet it leads to so much frustration with late nights figuring things out, solving problems, working through issues, and being there for others. As leaders we think we need to do all this for others. If we don’t, thenContinueContinue reading “Who Am I Doing This For?”
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Climbing Up the Next Ridge
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.ContinueContinue 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 aContinueContinue 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 toContinueContinue 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: isContinueContinue reading “Lots of Time Spent Pruning”
Jeff Beaumont 