Category Archives: The Work within the Work

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Re-Thinking Our Lives: Using the Language of Repositioning and Discernment

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Allow me to share my own personal reflections about what I am thinking regarding “the rest of my life.” As I think out loud regarding my own life, it may give you a portal into your own life. Through what I share, it may become a window for you to stare into regarding your own […]

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The Eight Lane Freeway of Our Working Lives

Is there an exit ramp off?

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Living life can sometime feel like driving fast on an eight-lane freeway. It’s busy. It’s intense. It’s stressful. It requires intense focus to stay in your lane. You have to monitor the dashboard of speed limits, fuel gauge and timing. You have to watch out for crazy drivers and the inherent possibility of road rage […]

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Five Benefits of Vacation

Why taking time off and time away is essential to living a life you want to live!

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There are at least five benefits of taking time off and being away. I’m talking about the wonderful deposits we place into our souls when we take a vacation. I’m returning from four weeks off of work. Four weeks might seem like an extravagance—that you cannot afford. I understand that. But for me—for us—we simply […]

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It Takes a Long Time to Grow a Salad

Lessons on Perseverance

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It takes a long, long time to make a salad like this. Let me explain. In 1997, I woke up in the middle of the night and it was, as if I heard an audible Voice telling me to get a pad a paper and to start writing. It wasn’t really audible but it was […]