Wishing
What do you wish you did more of? Spending time with loved ones? Creating instead of consuming? Dreaming? Building?
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Giving
What is the best gift you give? What is the greatest thing you do for the world? Is it a skill you use? The love you give others? The art you create? The problems you solve?
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Knowing
What are you trying not to see? What do you refuse to know? What do you know that you try not to think about?
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An exercise in brave
Not everyone is at a place where they can start working with a coach. You might not have the time, or the money (Though if it’s a money issue, get in touch. I don’t want anyone to need coaching and […]
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Brave and resilient
The word resilient gets tossed around a lot. In international development, in climate change, even when talking about children who’ve been through trauma. It’s a vague concept, though. It’s not the same as prepared, because resilience implies you’re ready for anything, not […]
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Sunday may not come
I’m not a religious person, and if I were, Christianity is not my religious tradition. Nonetheless, I look forward to the Holy Saturday blog post from Fred Clark every year. I don’t want to even excerpt it, because you need to […]
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Stop blaming yourself
The New York times ran a really interesting article by a therapist last week. He argued that therapists (and, I would extrapolate, American culture) encourage people to turn their blame inwards. To focus on their own ability to keep up […]
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Ebola and brave
I’ve been coaching and mentoring international development people for a while now. I wrote one of the first international development blogs, Blood and Milk, and it brought a lot of people to me who had really interesting questions. It was […]
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Jean Mercer is brave
Jean Mercer runs a blog called Childmyths. It is a quixotic, one-woman effort devoted to providing evidence-based data on child development. In her own words, “The blog focuses on parsing mistaken beliefs that can influence people’s decisions about childrearing– for […]
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Art history is brave
Seriously, it is. The People of Color in European Art History blog is fighting racism using its curator’s skills – the ability to discuss art history and find historical artwork for display. It is almost single-handedly disproving the popular idea that […]
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