From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke One other growing realization is that I did not always understand the nature of passion. I tended to confuse it with the adrenaline high that comes from frenetic activity. I like to be busy, to be […]
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From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner THERE WAS THE DAY I signed the contract for that first novel that I had started in college, for instance. It was a major event for me, needless to say – the fulfillment of my wildest dreams of literary glory. But of
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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Spiritual seekers on retreat and those who seek spiritual direction often lament to me that their prayers remain unanswered. They tell me about how much they pray and how disappointed they are that their pleas go unanswered. Sometimes I
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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby Not long ago I crossed the threshold of my sixtieth year, an age that I once looked upon as being very old – but no longer do. And yet that marker has caused me to think more deeply
From “Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust” by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith Having learned about the rainbow while we were growing up, almost any of us could easily recite its spectrum of colors without a problem: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. But were you
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From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD Which mindset do you have? Answer these questions about intelligence. Read each statement and decide whether you mostly agree with it or disagree with it. Questions 1 and 2 are the fixed mindset questions. Questions 3 and 4 reflect the growth mindset. Which
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Part One in the Kaitlin Curtice series “Is Publishing Sustainable?” – this one is on publisher responsibility (are they doing their part?). Read the free article here
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