One of my favorite leadership quotes comes from Craig Groeschel, "People would rather follow a leader who is always real, than one who is always right." Rings true for me. Does it for you? If so, how are we supporting this sentiment through development, management, recognition, and reward? If we look around, I would say … Continue reading Lead with Love
Live with Courage
Discomfort is the price of admission for a meaningful life. I recently heard this from Susan David and thought it aligned perfectly with what our core value of Live with Courage stands for at The Restoration Project. So many of us spend our life searching for comfort and actively putting protections in place to keep … Continue reading Live with Courage
Be a Safe Place
This week my business partner and I had the honor of keynoting the 39th annual Tribute to Women of Achievement put on by Waypoint Services (an organization that inspires people to move forward and is a vital community resource for individuals in crisis). As I prepared for what I might say, I kept coming back … Continue reading Be a Safe Place
A Vision of Love and Restoration
There are many definitions of love and I've always been drawn to the idea that love is active, complex, and always evolving. Something bigger than us, a true force of nature that we can't quite put a definition around. What I know for sure is that love is not easy. It's not a constant state … Continue reading A Vision of Love and Restoration
The Opening
Emptied out. Filled up. Everything and nothing exists here. Light and dark. Hot and cold. Noise and quiet. See and hear and feel it all. Coming together.Falling apart.Just being. The way it is. Grasping.Letting go. The in between. Comfort in the not knowing. Space. Clarity. Peace.Sacred. Divine. Ordinary. Fully alive. Awake.
What Are You Committed To?
In a world obsessed with fame and fortune that is always showing us stories and images of overnight successes and quick wins, it's easy to get distracted and find ourselves constantly reacting and striving. We try something, it doesn't reap the reward we were looking for, so we abandon it and move to the next … Continue reading What Are You Committed To?
The Time to Fail is Now
I have come to learn that failure is never really failure if we allow ourselves to learn the lessons in it. That truth brought so much peace and comfort into my life. What I didn't realize was that I had spent most of my life avoiding "failure" to the point I never had the opportunity … Continue reading The Time to Fail is Now
The Realities of What We Recognize and Reward
What does a good life mean to you?Who do you admire?What do you celebrate and reward? Who do you recognize and hold up as successful? Most of us have never taken the time to purposefully examine these questions. We haven't defined success for ourselves, but rather accept what culture tells us success looks like. This … Continue reading The Realities of What We Recognize and Reward
Wild and Free
Let's talk about rage. About desire. About wild. How many of you feel discomfort reading those words? Unsettled? Good. Lean into it. That feeling you've been avoiding has been desperate to get out. You've been shoving it down. Covering it up. Numbing it out. But it just won't go away. You're afraid you can't control … Continue reading Wild and Free
Trust is the most powerful economic force
We all know intuitively that trust is important, but how could I be so bold as to say it is the most powerful economic force? Because without it, we can't get things done well or on time. Without it, we lose faith and lose hope that things will get better. Without it, marriages, families, partnerships … Continue reading Trust is the most powerful economic force
