Category Archives: Grow

Personal Growth

Honing a takeaway habit

Honing a takeaway habit
Do you remember the last conference you attended? What was your takeaway? What ONE THING did you learn or change because of it? What about the last book you read? Sermon you heard? Movie you watched? Person you visited ...

Why what you do matters

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What you do matters. Sure, that sounds like one of those nice sentimental thoughts you’ll find on a motivational poster at the office. It’s much easier to say than to believe. But that’s only because we cannot not see, ...

When anxiety flattens you

When anxiety flattens you
Here’s the 3-step formula for living: Breathe in. Breathe out. Repeat. Forget any one of those and you’re pretty well sunk. Experience a job loss or health crisis and you feel pretty well sunk too. That punch in the ...

A prayer for the anxious

prayer for the anxious
Anxiety affects us all at one time or another. In my previous post, Surviving the tsunami of a job loss, I described how anxiety suppresses our creative thinking about how we might respond. In this post and the next, ...

A stimulus to read

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I enjoy reading, but over the last two years I’ve had to build a habit to do it every morning. Movies, on the other hand, easily engross me. I just sit back and surrender myself to a visual and ...