Life Prompts

30. Two Relationships You Need Today!

Leadership

I have been thinking a lot about mentoring lately. In fact, I can’t remember a time in my adult life when I didn’t have a mentor or when I wasn’t mentoring someone else.  Both relationships have enriched my life and shaped the person and professional I am today. A mentor’s past experiences save us time [...]

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29. Lessons from the New Normal

Leadership

As the saying goes,  “Time flies when we’re having fun.”  It is true.  It’s been forty days since I blogged about my leap from my full time job to a full time adventure as the founder and president of Vineworks Publishers. I haven’t been blogging much since then because, as you can imagine, I’ve been [...]

Tagged as: Courage, Dreams, Habits, Life lessons

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28: What We Can Learn from Ants

Leadership

The Office, the popular TV show, resonates with millions of viewers, I’m told, because it presents true to life office scenarios.  Really?! Call me uptight, square, or stick-in-the-mud, but I just don’t get it.  I imagine that a show about employees earning a paycheck by setting a high standard for themselves, delivering excellence, and surpassing [...]

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27: Living a Day without Excuses

Faith

I’d be nicer to you, but… I’d lose weight, but… I’d stop being afraid, but… I’d work on my marriage, but… I’d take a risk, but… I’d forgive you, but… I’d take a chance on my dream, but… Excuses.  We’ve all succumbed to them at one point in our life—for a second… an hour… a [...]

Tagged as: Dreams, Excuses, Life, perspective

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26: Do You Have a Job or a Ministry?

Leadership

I’m honored and privileged to work for a Christian organization, so I’m deeply saddened when I hear, “That’s not my job” or “I don’t get paid to do that.”  I realize that we may feel unappreciated, burned out, or discouraged from time to time. I believe, however, that Christians bring glory to God in the work place, [...]

Tagged as: Christian Living, Good Practice, influence, testimony, truth

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25: Are You Willing to Poke the Box?

Life Prompts

I have been a fan of Seth Godin’s books for a long time.  Most recently, his leap to launch The Domino Project, his latest venture that is leading the way in the new era of publishing, has energized–and affirmed–my own leap to one of the most exciting chapters of my life.  I’ll write more about this leap in the [...]

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24: Lessons From Getting Fired

Life Prompts

This morning, I was reading Micheal Hyatt’s excellent post, “Three Lessons I Learned from Getting Fired.” It reminded me of what I have known for many years: although getting fired is humiliating and painful, it’s an invaluable life lesson.  Of course, it can only be invaluable if we take the time to reflect on and [...]

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23: Good to Great

Life Prompts

I have been immersed in reading Jim Collins’ classic book, Good to Great, which opens with the following statement: Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have [...]

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22: The Road Less Traveled

Life Prompts

“1992, the year in the dull-drums,” was the year when our family faced 11 job losses in 12 months. Very much like today, many people who lost their jobs had to rely on unemployment benefits, while succumbing to months of depression and paralysis.  Some could not even muster enough motivation to look for a job.  [...]

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17-21: Five Letters

Life Prompts

How do you feel when you open your mailbox and find a hand-written envelope addressed to you?  If you are anything like me, you probably put everything down and quickly open the envelope to find out what’s inside. Receiving a personal letter, or even a personal note, is a rare and precious gift in our [...]

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16: A Borrowed Beginning

Life Prompts

I never spend too much time over-thinking story beginnings because I know I’ll end up changing them.  But when I’m stuck and don’t know where to start, I use this little trick:  I borrow a beginning from one of my favorite authors or novels to get the story going. Your Prompt: Try it. Choose one [...]

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