Anxiety

Is Pain the Key to Empowerment?

November 2, 2011

It’s timely to re-post today one of the most popular posts ever on my blog, or top 10 at least. Morgan’s got another jog-a-thon in the morning (Thursday) and it brings back a lot of memories documented here. She’s still nervous about it, because like one of her parents she takes everything super seriously [...]

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Quick Thots From Moneyball

October 8, 2011

My wife and I pulled off a miracle and actually went to a movie together this weekend. We hit Moneyball which came on the recommendation of several folks. I really enjoyed the movie. I’m a baseball fan and I lived in the Bay Area during the time frame in which this movie covers so I [...]

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How Transferability Undermines Transformation

August 26, 2011

This is the fourth in a series of posts from Peter Steinke’s A Door Set Open. The previous post relates to “Movement.” Steinke references the work of William Bridges, a consultant, in The Way of Transition: Embracing Life’s Most Difficult Moments and has a series of thoughts that could have been ripped right from my [...]

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Wanting Something That’s Just Not There

January 25, 2011

So my wife after reading my blog post on Jay Cutler yesterday and after reading some of what’s out there online said the following line to me today, “It’s pretty evident that a lot of people really want something from him that he’s not able to give.” She’s genius always, but really loved her assessment [...]

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Maturity and Response

January 20, 2011

Been talking a lot of systems and leadership the last couple months with the Leadership Learning Group. I’ve been enjoying re-reading some great material. I’m not sure how you define maturity, but here’s something that might help you think about maturity (and immaturity)…. “Automatic behavior is the hallmark of immature people. Bent on survival, they [...]

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Anxiety as Teacher

November 17, 2010

I’ve enjoyed some of the discussion that has stemmed from the post “Are You Better Off Being Cross-Culturally Clueless” and wanted to take it another step.Tom commented about how there is a inherent servanthood in entering into the anxiety that comes from being and living in a different world and different context. He made some [...]

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Are You Better Off Being Cross-Culturally Clueless?

November 12, 2010

Originally posted on July 19th, 2008 as “Is Ignorance Bliss?”I’ll be re-posting a few posts from a few years back as I adapt to life with three kids! Been thinking about cross-cultural development a lot the last few weeks so I though it was a good time to bring this one out again.—————————————–I heard an [...]

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Without Vision, Maybe the People Will Be Better Off

November 5, 2010

In the Christian world, if you haven’t heard Proverbs 29:18a used to educate folks about casting vision then it’s only a matter of time. The King James version is actually used a lot because it’s got a nice tragic tone to it. “Where there is no vision, the people perish…” Peter Steinke in the same [...]

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Are You Passionate or Reactionary?

July 26, 2010

One of the things I appreciate about people is when they are truly passionate about something – when they have a fire for something and are willing to do something about it. But sometimes we emit or we encounter fire in people that really isn’t passion, it’s primarily reaction.Reactionary people have a lot of passion, [...]

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