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My focus for a new year- 2022
Don’t you wish that a new year actually meant a completely fresh start? We hear so much rhetoric around this. It leaves me feeling disillusioned or like I am failing somehow. The reality is that the challenges I was facing last year didn’t magically disappear when I switched to a new calendar. I am still the same person bringing in the same habits and thinking patterns. The external circumstances haven’t changed and, in fact, are likely to get worse over the coming months. It would be easy to give in to despair and write off setting any goals or intentions. I have a choice whether to stay in victim mode…
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Applying the “top three” approach to the holiday season
Confession time: I created a beautiful Advent planner that I’ve shared with all of you. I’ve spoken and written about getting intentional by planning for Advent and the Christmas season. I know how quickly the Christmas season hits and drowns out all good intention if you aren’t ready for it. And yet, I have still not made a plan for myself and my family for this year! Advent is only five days away now. I could choose to let overwhelm and the feeling of being behind take over. I could throw my hands in the air and succumb to the craziness of the season. OR I can take a few…
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Beating the busyness of this season with intention- free Advent planner resource
This week I shared some thoughts on how we can deal with this cycle of feeling busy every day but also feeling like we get nothing done over at the MOPS Australia blog. I find myself in that place often if I am not intentional with how I structure my days, what I focus on and what I choose to spend time on. I find this is especially true in the Christmas season. The demands on our time seem to reach a crescendo at this time of year. We are rushing here and there and yet we feel like we are always behind. The important things get lost in the…
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Feeling resistance to “intentional”- a Five Minute Friday post
Intentional. It is something that I think about and write about often. It is what I aspire to be in many areas of my life. The planning I do, the way I parent, my relationship with God and with people. Intentional is what I want to describe all of it. and yet, part of me is rebelling against that concept today. In a season where being intentional feels more important than ever and a year of having “savour” as my word, it feels weighty. It feels overwhelming. It feels like an unattainable goal. Maybe you can relate to that. Maybe you only have moments of it or maybe your whole…
Encouragement for women in leadership
