Every time the Olympics are on I start thinking about Cool Runnings. Cool Runnings is one of my favorite movies of all time. If you haven’t ever seen it (and I really think you should), the movie is about the first Jamaican bobsled team in 1988. Three of the men on the team are Jamaican qualifying sprinters who don’t make…
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Why does networking have to be so terrifying when it should really be a regular part of our life?
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The majority of the movie is about whether or not Neo believes he is chosen, important, and special. And far too often, our lives come down to the same thing. Especially in our careers. What we believe is possible for our lives, for our career goals, for God’s ability to use us comes down almost entirely to what we believe about ourselves.
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I was chosen by Christ- not waitlisted, not accidently added, not just a possibility, but whole-heartedly accepted and loved just as is. He didn’t have a list of specifications I had to perfectly complete. He didn’t have a blackmail policy- “you do this for me and I’ll think about it”. He didn’t make a last-minute switch from the deny to the accept list. He just accepted me- confused, broken, imperfect, and at times crazy obsessed, and loved me just like that, when I didn’t even like myself.
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I was listening to a sermon a few weeks ago where a pastor said, “If we are being excellent Christians we will be excellent in our jobs in the workplace as well.” I think it’s a true statement except that we tend to put our own spin on that and make it into something it’s not meant to be. Because…
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I have been praying lately about what God wants me to do in order to advance my career. Do I need to spend more time investing money here, more time volunteering there, more time reading about this topic or that? God’s answer was I needed to love more. Love? Well, I don’t really know what that has to do with…
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“A strong man who has known power his whole life does not realize its value, but a weak man knows the value of strength and knows compassion. I hope you will stay who you are… a good man.”
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We burnout often because we filter everything in our lives nowadays- painting over and touching up things that we should have just thrown out and given up on long ago.
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So everyone has bad days or even bad months at work, how do you know when it’s actually burnout? One author posed it as a continuum of stress– a dichotomy between stress and eventual burnout. You look for signs indicating struggle now, and make changes to head in a different direction in the future. The symptoms of burnout have been defined as exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficiency…
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And at the end of the day now I can’t depend on abilities I used to rely on or my frisky brain function to always help me out, but thankfully I can always trust in God…
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