For too long, I've been stuck in this sort of holding pattern. With family and work, jobs and children, dinner and housekeeping, friendships and faith, I feel like I can't ever quite get where I desire to be in those areas. Do I come close? Certainly. Am I really good at a few of those things at some point? Absolutely! I have a real tendency to get fixated on something and give that one thing my all, for a little while. Until I see that it means I'm letting something else fall behind, so I hurry over to that area of my life, get it all together, only to find I've let the ball drop somewhere else. I'd mention these things to friends or family, and I would always get the … [Read more...]

  I'm writing for 31 days about my journey to get it together. Simply put, to stop surviving and start thriving. Have you ever watched a duck glide seamlessly across the top of a lake? There appears to be little effort, they glide with ease and speed. But, if you were to take a look just below the surface, you would see just how much work they are doing to simply maneuver from point A to point B. I often feel that way, like I have it all together on the surface, but inside I am a real mess. Spread so thin, that I'm not able to give anything of real substance to anyone in my life. Just enough to show up, be there, go through the motions, but not enough … [Read more...]