Category: Leadership
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Lumini în cetate
La inițiativa și invitația unor mame, am zis da și eu, sa ajut cum pot să pornească un grup mops și în biserica pe care o frecventez. Îmi este foarte clar care nu sunt darurile mele, și cu toate astea mă străduiesc să nu las garda jos și să fac un efort. Să cresc și…
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Fine arts and music
Jackie has been playing the clarinet for three years. She is very talented and we delight healing her play often. She doesn’t practice daily or from her own initiative, except on occasions, but I’m so happy for her and her skill and passion. I wonder about her old desire to play the cello, or initially…
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There must be a purpose
I feel I’m in the trenches of life. Experiencing discomfort, growing pains, perspective and disillusionment to the fullest. Life is hard. I lost my perspective of joy. But I cling onto the hope that everything I suffer will birth the passion of my next chapter. I am passionate about so many things. I polish my…
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Step in or step aside
We protectInterpret words and actionsspeak highly of the otherHolding the world in balanceWith our heartWith our mind. I hear them complain about the otherAnd I weigh in my heart what I hearThen I pray. They all have a pointThey are all rightand they are all wrong. None of us is perfectBut that is a blessingWe…
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Work through the difficulty
An actor was sharing the lessons he learned in his debut years. Trying to enter into an audition, the door was blocked by a chair. He poked his head in and said: excuse me. I can’t begin my number. There’s a chair in the way. To which he got the replay: “work through the difficulty.…
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At capacity
We live with no margin. Even if I save some space, mental, physical, on the clock, it has become the space where I dump last minute requests, needs, plan changes. So while I get high on the success of fitting everything in just right, then I crash into the realization that this is not sustainable.…
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Am I the only one overwhelmed?
I posted a story on instagram, after weeks of radio silence, a picture of the traffic I was stuck in on my way home, stating that I feel life is unbearable with the absurd chase of appointments, and circumstances of life in this season. The road in constriction, music school as an extracurricular activity and…
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The ART of Emotionally intelligent communication
I learned through adverse situations to communicate with tact, persuasively, intelligent. I don’t just say what I need to say I think about how it will be revived. And what will the reaction be. For me (especially written) communication is like playing chess. It has always been. In my professional career I honed the skill. …
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Happiness through built confidence
Happiness is feeling useful, capable, independent. We cater to our kids and making this easy for them and in return rob them of the satisfaction of knowing they can do Jh are things. My almost preteen daughter can be moody, and it worries me as these are not the hormones. It is purely contextual. Everything…
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Invitation
It’s Sunday morning. I hear a knock on the door. Rufus hears it too and barks his head off. He gets really worked up when someone’s at the door. Extreme enthusiasm. We don’t get visitors at the door often. But when we do, it’s the neighborhood kids. Conrad jokingly said: any kid that shows up…
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First school week is over
“This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult—once we truly understand and accept it—then life is no longer difficult. Because once it has been accepted, the fact that life is…
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Decision fatigue
I woke up with this phrase that truly defines why I feel so tired. Today both girls start going to school and I’m most excited that they won’t ask for my permission or opinion about anything. For 4 h/day each, they will ask someone else or listen to someone else. Yesterday mid day j asked…