June 2013 was a milestone month in our family. Our youngest son graduated from high school, preparing to attend college across the country. The nest was emptying; a familiar milestone, and for many parents a painful awareness of change. In our family not only was the nest emptied, we moved it to a new city.
You’ve purchased your 2020 calendar. Maybe you have a new planner ready to fill with family and work obligations and due dates. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash You might be a journal keeper with a new blank book ready to start on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. Photo by freestocks.org on Unsplash This new decade you want to move forward with
If you’ve been following this series The 40-Day Journey to the New Year, you know that there have been many opportunities to Grow your awareness of how you think, feel and act in various areas; to Equip yourself with various tools in order to Thrive in your work, life & faith. Even with all the
You’ve seen the overview of five tools in this blog series: Myers-Briggs Temperament Inventory; DiSC Profile; StrengthsFinders; the Enneagram of Personality; and Sacred Pathways. You’ve encountered the common uses and purposes of these five inventories in five different posts. I’m imagining you might be asking: what’s the point of all these tools? A valid question.
The fourth Sunday of this 2019 Advent season is here. We’ve journeyed through the week of Hope, of Faith and of Joy. Now we enter the final week of preparation for the celebration of Christ’s first coming and the readiness for His second coming. This week the theme is What represents peace to you? Absence
In my Transformational coaching practice we focus attention on three main steps in the acronym G.E.T.: Grow-Equip-Thrive. Each step involves several strategies in the developmental process. What’s the point of this style of coaching? Transformational coaching helps you connect the dots of work, life and faith so you are able to live your life in
Climbing the 12 foot ladder, my heart racing to a beat of competition fueled by pride, I knew I was going to have to follow through with this dare. No self-respecting 16 year old would turn down an opportunity to jump from an Olympic diving platform earning the bragging rights of accomplishment. This was no
Waaayyy back in the late 90’s, before Y2K, I had the privilege of co-producing and directing a children’s musical for Christmas at our church. Third through sixth grade children auditioned and were given specific parts while incorporating all the children in the chorus. The name of the musical was Free Gift. It was written by