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In the Wee Hours
Sleeping has never been one of my abilities. I’m that light sleeper who hears every sound and wakes up and then struggles, often unsuccessfully, to try and go back to sleep. I’m up early every day, and it I make it to 5 am on the weekend I feel as if I’ve slept in! In…
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Other People’s Doors
Here is a universal truth. It is so easy to judge. It is so easy to take our own experiences and apply them to others, assuming that their circumstances are much like ours. We know what parenting is, we have children. We know what marriage is, we have partners. We know what loss is, we’ve…
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No Me Without You
I read a brief article a few weeks ago that has stuck with me. In it, a teacher was praising a student for how well they had mastered a new skill. The student was an adult learner and the course one that was more cerebral in nature than physical. The student reacted to the words…
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Anything for You
Yesterday one of our managers saw me in the hallway and reported some details on a project that he was working on. It’s a project that he knows is important to me and he gave me all the details as well as his own commitment to meeting the deadlines and seeing it through. It was…
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Mindful Moments
There is no shortage of advice on leadership, and life, that urges us to be more mindful, to be focused and intentional, to find those places of quiet contemplation within ourselves. I don’t know about you but for me, quiet internal places have always been in short supply. If I had a visual for the…
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Opening to a Full Heart
How we approach leadership is how we approach life. We can lock ourselves into the false sense of security that says “I know what I know and I know best” or we can open our minds, and open our hearts, to more. There is a bit of vulnerability, a bit of risk in opening ourselves.…
With a Full Heart 