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Provide for others by building into yourself
I think of all that I want to provide for my daughter- quality time, a safe and calm environment, a sense of courage, integrity, kindness. The more I think of what I want to be able to instil in her, the more I have to remember that I can only provide something that I have myself. If I want to provide peace, I have to be at peace. If I want to provide a sense of integrity, generosity and kindness, I have to be showing those qualities myself. I am constantly reminded that it is vital to be building into myself in order to build into others effectively. It isn’t…
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Tired (too tired to even come up with some witty title) Five Minute Friday
I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry when I saw the prompt word for this week’s Five Minute Friday: tired. I debated whether to even write a post this week on it. I was nervous about what would come out. The truth is I am tired. I have been resisting acknowledging it this week. Sure, I use the word but I don’t want it to change anything that I am doing. But it does. I am much shorter in my patience and stress tolerance. I am more in my head. I am defaulting to negative. Resisting the fact that I am tired and need to do something about that…
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Lessons learned this summer
Stop and pause with me. Press pause on the intensity and the conflicting priorities. Press pause on the demands and the dreams. Pause to look back and reflect. At the end of each season, I join Emily Freeman and many others in reflecting on what I have learned before diving into the next season. Sometimes the list is light and frivolous. Sometimes it is joyful. Sometimes it is filled with the hard lessons of life. This list is one of the latter. You can do all the right things and progress still be slow I was never promised a quick and easy recovery from shoulder surgery but the reality was…
Encouragement for women in leadership