Category: Blog Post
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Summer Melt and Mentorship
I had the right people around me at the right times to avoid the “summer melt.” Summer melt is a term that refers to a phenomenon where every year, many students who have overcome daunting obstacles in high school receive good news — they’ve been accepted to college, and often they have been awarded enough…
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How Can I Influence Others With a Shovel?
I was treated to a great lesson on influence recently at a conference I attended. Justin Elam’s message was one he has been sharing for a while now about how to equip others by asking questions vs. providing ready answers. The outline of his talk started with this Strauss quote: “The wise man doesn’t give…
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What My Grandfather Taught Me About Being Full of CHIT
My grandfather never used an acronym. He just lived it: curious, humble, intentional, teachable. What a Brooklyn-born cook taught me about being full of CHIT.
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Golden Child or Pariah : Is this the right choice ?
Should we strive to be the golden child or should we suffer as the pariah? What is the right posture to assume as we move through life? Is this the right choice? Must we choose one of these paths or is there a third choice that leaves us better positioned for true success?
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Moms and Teachers: Every Kid Needs A Champion, Thankful For You and Those Like You
Moms. They are our champions. Whether it is your actual Mom or someone who simply pulls you into their circle and treats you like their child, like the best teachers do, they are fiercely and ferociously for us. They provide us with the unfathomable, unconditional love that we typically only receive from one Other Place,…
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Angry or Afraid? When people act out, do we see someone to fear or someone to serve?
I still need help practicing consistently: quickly changing my response from one of “equal and opposite” reaction to one of service, grace and compassion
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The Wolf Ate My Checklist
What kind of society could we have if we unleashed our children to play and fall and re-work their environment as the wolves did in Yellowstone? What kind of society will we have if we don’t?
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Troubled Waters ? Don’t get washed away see and be the bridge.
My wager is that you know, deep down that there is hope, even in the midst of sorrow and that there is always an “other side” to cross over to and always a bridge you can cross.
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Easter A to Z
Before I got past my biases of what Easter was about, it was just another holiday where I got to eat all my kids leftover chocolate. Now, I still dip into the chocolate, but I have a renewed way of looking at it. I now have a new language for Easter.
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Got Circle? Sometimes you NEED to go where everybody knows your name
Cheers Theme: “Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name..and they’re always glad you came…. You want to go where people know, people are all the same, you want to go where every-bod-y knows your nameeee.” What if that want, was really more of a need? What if we don’t just want to…
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