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

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, ...

Is your mastery a mystery?

Is your mastery a mystery?
“I don’t know what I’m good at.” I hear that comment a lot. I’ve often even thought it myself. There’s a lot of talk about mastery. It’s one of the three elements of intrinsic motivation that Daniel Pink describes ...

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, ...