Reflections on Life and Leadership
I’ve learned a new phrase that comes in handy when I’m inordinately or unnecessarily worried about a mistake I made. I learned it from my friend Jason. One day we were talking about a mistake that happened in one of our worship services (we started a song in two different keys). I was obsessing about …
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Writer Sarah Lyall tells of a man’s outburst in a supermarket when he couldn’t get a certain type of cheese—a blue cheese called Cambozola. The man was obnoxious and belligerent. A store employee observed, “I don’t think this is about the cheese.” We’re all guilty of this unfair, unproductive, immature, hurtful, and wrong behavior. We’re …
The mother asked, “Where have you been?” Her little girl replied, “On my way home I met a friend who was crying because she had broken her doll.” “Oh,” said her mother, “then you stopped to help her fix the doll?” “No,” replied the little girl, “I stopped to help her cry.” This story …
I saw the following statement on the front of a T-shirt (a notable and always reliable source of profound information). A goldfish is the happiest animal on earth because it has a 10-second memory. The statement is false (scientific studies debunk the idea), but it does make a good point: There’s value in leaving the …