Posts Tagged ‘choices’
We get to choose
Growing in leadership requires personal commitment. Most people understand this. But, applying this to ‘church world’ takes it to another level. It requires a spiritual commitment and personal choices associated with it. Choices determine your character. Your character is shaped by the day-to-day decisions and challenges you face. If that is true (and I believe…
Read MoreLearned helplessness
Helplessness has a few sides to it. There is a “cuteness” to it. We’ll say things like, “Oh look at that poor dog, he looks so helpless.” In those situations, you’re almost compelled to act to help out. There is the side of economic and social loss where someone loses their ability to survive and…
Read MoreLiving with regret
I was fascinated by an article written in 2012 by Bronnie Ware. As a nurse, she spent years working in hospice, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded many of the conversations she had with patients as they faced their final days on earth. She wrote of the extraordinary…
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