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What would I change about ‘Stepping Up In Leadership’?
It has been two years since ‘Stepping Up In Leadership’ was released into the world. Two years doesn’t seem like much time in some ways. Then I stop and consider the change in my leadership role, leaving my employment for my own business and a global pandemic hitting. Two years can contain a huge amount of growth, pain, learning and stretching. Earlier this year the audiobook version was released. Reading through each word carefully as I recorded it had me thinking about what would be different if I was to write the book today. What would I change? What hasn’t changed I’ll start with one thing that definitely has not…
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What I’ve learned from audiobooks this year
Audiobooks have become a key way that I read books these days. They allow me to pursue growth, understanding or even entertainment while I take care of other demands on my time. I can do housework or drive to my next stop while learning. I know this is true for many people these days. The main downside I have found is that I don’t always stop and reflect on what I am gleaning from the words. So I am taking some time today to reflect on what I have learned from audiobooks so far this year. Maybe you will learn something or be inspired to reflect yourself. These are the…
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What I learned this summer of 2019-2020
Audio version of this post here. At the end of each season, I make it a habit to stop and reflect on what I have learned. I have a tendency to rush forward and press on to the next thing, which results in losing the opportunity to learn from what has been in order to carry those lessons into the next season. This tendency to want to push away the past and head forward is an effort to avoid dealing with the emotions and taking an honest look at areas I’ve fallen short in. Maybe you can relate? Find an invitation to stop and reflect on this last season in…
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What I Learned This Winter
Suddenly another season is done. I stop once more to reflect on what I have learned. Honestly, this season has been intense and full of good things, hard things and growth opportunities. I have not been keeping track of my learning and reflecting as I normally like to do. That makes this time of stopping and reflecting even more important. I don’t want to rush past this opportunity and overlook the incredible growth, fun and goodness that have occured in the past three months. Launching a book is fun/terrifying/hard work/takes intention “Stepping Up In Leadership‘” released in August. It has been a surreal journey seeing the words that have lived…
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What I Learned This Autumn 2019
Do you follow along with Emily P. Freeman‘s seasonal reflection practice? I haven’t been consistent with it the past couple of rounds but felt drawn to the idea of stopping and reflecting today. I think it has something to do with the feeling of change, growth and intensity in my current season. Maybe you could benefit from some reflection time too? Here are a few things that I have learned over the past three months. I hate shopping for jeans and possibly wearing them too. I used to live in jeans whenever possible. They were my comfort go to. Now, I can never seem to find a pair that fit…
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What I learned this winter 2018
Spring is here in the Southern Hemisphere. At the end of each season, I aim to pause and reflect back over the past few months. It seems cliche but this season simultaneously feels like it has lasted forever and gone in a blink all at once. My brain is struggling to process it all. Here is the attempt to pull together what I’ve learned and observed. I have reached my goal of equipping and releasing the leaders I have served in MOPS with here in Western Australia Last weekend marked my the end of my time as State Leader for MOPS as I passed the baton on to be able…
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What I learned this Autumn
We’ve reached the end of another season once more. As time flows forward, I’m taking this invitation to pause and reflect. I invite you to join me. I am capable of keeping plants alive. This orchid is on its third blooming year and it has been the most spectacular. Quite an achievement for this usually ineffective gardener. Creating content for an online course is invigorating for my creative self. I have been working on creating an online course for the past few months. This time of writing, video editing, graphics creating and learning has stirred my passion is unexpected ways. It is only now that I am…
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Lessons learned this summer
Stop and pause with me. Press pause on the intensity and the conflicting priorities. Press pause on the demands and the dreams. Pause to look back and reflect. At the end of each season, I join Emily Freeman and many others in reflecting on what I have learned before diving into the next season. Sometimes the list is light and frivolous. Sometimes it is joyful. Sometimes it is filled with the hard lessons of life. This list is one of the latter. You can do all the right things and progress still be slow I was never promised a quick and easy recovery from shoulder surgery but the reality was…
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What I Learned Spring 2017
I may only be able to type one-handed and in short bursts, but I didn’t want to miss out on this practice that I have come to value. This season has been intense in more ways than anticipated. September to November was always going to be busy with birthdays, calisthenics concerts, MOPS retreats to organise and attend, camping trips and so many other commitments thrown in. Add in a shoulder injury requiring surgery and the season ramped up exponentially. In the midst of the busyness, there has been so much joy, learning and growth. What started as a season of limbo ended with unexpected changes. So many areas of my…
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What I learned this Autumn
As one season comes to a close and the next begins, I pause for a moment and reflect. What have I learned over the past few months? What have life, God and my experiences been revealing to me from the silly to the mundane to the profound? Emily Freeman has the practice of reflecting on and writing about what she has learned and I have joined her in this for the past year or so. Here in Australia, Autumn is drawing to a close and Winter is beginning. Here’s what I have learned over the past three months. This is not a season of writing for me and I can’t force…
Encouragement for women in leadership
