Call me homesick for a good read, but this favorite and familiar author – Alice Munro – came through for what ailed me. Her latest collection, Dear Life, was the recent selection for my book club and neither the book nor our discussion disappointed.
The primary section of Dear Life consists of ten stories – all typical of Munro’s style. She crafts believable characters in unremarkable situations to achieve thoughtful and real episodes of poignancy. Not unlike Flannery O’Connor who allows all of her main characters a moment of grace to accept …
This is part three of a series on John C. Maxwell’s The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth that will be out in October 2012. If you haven’t read the previous posts, you can find Part One here and Part Two here.
At this point I’ve read through chapter seven, and the theme that is resonating the most with me is this: get started now. This cord runs through the chapters, beginning in chapter two, “The Law of Awareness” where Maxwell encourages his readers to get started even when they think they …
The beginning of the post is from Saturday, so if you haven’t read it, skip on over to it now.
In this first chapter, Maxwell delivers eight gaps that keep people from being intentional about development. One really resonated with me – “The Inspiration Gap.” In his discussion on this gap, Maxwell basically de-bunks the idea of motivation, quoting from another writer who calls it a trap. In talking about his own onset with growing intentionally he says,
I had only one reason to do it. I believed I should do it …
This post is based on a presentation I created for work regarding business email etiquette, but many of the same principles can be applied to personal email as well.
First, there are a few things you should already know, but just incase you’ve been living under a rock:
Don’t SCREAM. In the electronic world, all caps is the equivalent of shouting, and we all know that it is impolite to shout.
Word messages carefully. Sarcasm can be easily misread, so use it sparingly and only in situations where you know it will be …
John C. Maxwell is a man after my heart. I’ve loved everything I’ve read by him, but with The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, he’s honed in on one of my passions – practical instruction for personal development. In this book, Maxwell is articulating so many ideas that I’ve had a sense of and know to be true while at the same time pushing me further and deeper than I’ve gone before.
I have stopped requesting ARCs because I’ve gotten so behind in my reading, but when my friend Sarah showed …
My new favorite writer is John Piper. This year I’ve added reading his works to my morning quiet time. While this started unintentionally, his thinking has been so rewarding, it is now intentional.
Last year my mom gave me a copy of Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ, which is an abbreviated taste of Piper at just over 100 pages. It wasn’t until I started Desiring God, the Piper classic, that I fell in love, not just with Piper, but all over in love with God and my relationship with Him.
The subtitle …
