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From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard That little voice inside you telling you to do something that feels inconvenient, unexpected, and uncomfortable. It might start with something small, like encouraging you to speak to a complete stranger, or something big, like urging you to

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Now consider the dividends of high trust. Obviously the opposites of the 7 Low-Trust Organizational Taxes we’ve just discussed are dividends. To lower or eliminate redundancy, bureaucracy, disengagement, politics, turnover, churn, and fraud will certainly make a huge positive

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD All of us have elements of both – we’re all a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets. I’m talking about it as a simple either-or right now for the sake of simplicity. People can also have different mindsets in different areas. I might

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson The platform builders and ecosystem engineers do not just open a door in the adjacent possible. They build an entire new floor.

From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke If prayer is the bedrock of the second half of life, then friends are the rich soil that gives form, substance, and richness to our calling. Friends, in my experience, are different in this time of

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner As a seminary student, Buechner was assigned to work part-time in an East Harlem parish. Here he is commenting on the regular parish staff members. THEY HAD CAUGHT something from Christ, I thought. Something of who he was and is flickered out

From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill As I grew contemplative in my faith, questions arose as to how any of the things I had done fit into “a” wonderful plan for my life. Learning to see life as way opens answered that question.  You might want to draw a

From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon To maximize the value of the advice in this book, you must have a purpose in your life… A useful statement of purpose for a company needs three parts. The first is what I call a “likeness”. By analogy,

From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Kristian Bush is one of Nashville’s most prolific singer-songwriters and is best known for being one half of the Grammy-winning, multi-platinum band Sugarland. Kristian told me that a mashup of early life events created an