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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 26: Moment
How do you take the passion, ideas and focus generated in a moment and carry it through into everyday life? How do you capture that energy generated in an insulated environment out into the real world? The past two days were spent at the Global Leadership Summit. I have been humming with ideas, insight and fervour as I have been every year. The download of exceptional teaching and training on leadership is overwhelming and transformative. And yet, I know from previous experience that carrying that through to the daily action is hard. It takes intention. It takes commitment to continuing to learn and grow. It takes courage to implement what…
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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 25: Capture
Do your days feel like you are trying to capture fog? Does time seem to slip through your fingers with little to show for it (or so you think when looking at the unchecked items on your to-do list)? I know that feeling. I know what it is like to grasp for achievement, productivity and effective use of time and yet be completely baffled by how little I have got done. In my case, I am realising that I way underestimate how much time I need for some tasks and way overestimate how much I can achieve in a day, especially when I factor in extra tiredness, injury…
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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 24: Brief
Have you noticed how brief your attention span and focus has become? Or is it just me? We have become avid consumers of more information, entertainment and content than generations before us could conceive of. The more available at our fingertips, the higher our intolerance for anything that takes up longer of our time that we feel is necessary. If our attention isn’t hooked in the first few seconds, we skip to the next thing. A two minute read or video to watch seems completely too long in that moment. What is that about? Is it something we just have to accept or is it something that we need to…
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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 23: Common
So often we focus in on the differences between us. Those differences become the points of conflict, the points to judge on, the points to justify division and hatred. When will we start to recognise that we have more in common than in difference? It hurts my heart to see the division and hatred around the world. And yet, it is nothing new. Human beings have been using differences to justify all kinds of intolerable actions throughout history. I know that it is something we actually have in common as people. We have a tendency to categorise and notice difference. Maybe it is a sign of growth when we can…
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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 22: Help
Why is it that we find it so hard to accept help sometimes? I have been learning how to say yes to help more often but there is still this innate desire to be completely independent and not need anybody. I know I’m not alone in this. I was listening to a podcast the other day and they were talking about how we sometimes talk about children going from dependence to independence. We have this idea in our culture that it is the goal of adulthood to be independent. What if we started changing that? What if we made the goal inter-dependence? The reality is that we all need each…
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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 21: Start
I am so good at putting off starting something until some future time, when all the conditions are right. This has been true of developing regular connection and community with my close friends. I was waiting until I had “time”, the garden weeded and tidy, the house sorted out, the weather to be good or a hundred other things. Instead I need to just start. This is true for so many things in my life. Maybe for you too. What is it that you are dreaming about or wishing for? What have you been waiting for someone else to do? What have you been putting off? Today, make a start.…
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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 20: Audience
We are surrounded by an audience always. Whether that audience is social media, passers by, our family, friends or neighbours or the audience of God whom I believe is there. This follows on from yesterday’s post on “who” and still has me thinking about what audience I am tuning in to for a response, for affirmation and for direction. Do the random thoughts of a passer by matter? Do the judgements of people out there in internet land who don’t know me matter? What audience are you listening to and watching for? For me, the audiences I want to count are God, my family and my friends. This isn’t to…
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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 19: Who
Who is it that I am doing this for? This question has been pricking my mind often in the past few weeks. When something hasn’t gone as I’d hoped and disappointment creeps in, I ask myself why. When the urge to frantically clean my house if someone is coming over threatens to overwhelm, that question returns. I don’t always like the answer when honesty pushes through the excuses and well-crafted responses. The “who” tends to be the insecure little person inside me, desperate to get approval, to be told that she is enough and to be recognised. Or the “who” might be the nefarious “others” and what they might think,…
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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 18: Search
What is it that you are searching for? That longing deep inside that doesn’t seem to shift. I know that feeling. I think all human beings do in one way or another. It can be frustrating and yet, I think this desire to look for the next thing or something else is built into us for a reason. I don’t ever want to be complacent. Content, but not complacent. I want to search for truth. I want to search for love and connection. I want to search for those things in my everyday that bring joy and hope- not only to me but also to others. There is a kind…
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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 17: Pause
This is your invitation to pause- really pause. Take a breath. Let it out slowly. How often do we allow ourselves to do that? I have times of doing well with this and then I forget. I fill up those little moments that could be pauses with social media, noise or little busy odd jobs. It takes so much intention and focus to build pause into our days. Our souls are crying out for it. They are loaded down with everything that we absorb from around us. Let’s make a plan to stop, pause and breathe. What prompts can we use to remind us? Is there a particular cue that…
Encouragement for women in leadership
