None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. – Kathleen Norris
Article written by Alex Blackwell. Connect with me on Facebook.
The unexpected can change our lives.
When changes occur, our daily patterns, lifestyles and relationships can be enhanced and taken to the next level. We can develop new insights. New opportunities will present themselves that didn’t exist before.
Discovering the unexpected is an a-ha moment in our lives when the dots become connected and the next steps we need to take become clear and exciting. The unexpected is what we worked so hard to achieve, dreamed for so long to come true and kept the faith in believing, even when we felt like giving up. Read more
There is no stopping place in this life–nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along one’s gone. – Meister Eckhart
Article written by BridgeMaker contributor Paul D. Fitzgerald. Follow him on Twitter.
In thinking about growing more effectively in our personal, relational, spiritual, and even vocational challenges, unconsciously we imagine a two-dimensional growth model. Like a typical wall chart with grids to draw our progress, it has a time line axis on the bottom and benchmarks on the side. We want our growth chart to show a rising line showing we’ve met some benchmarks and we’re moving on. For most of us that is what progress looks like.
In my own personal and professional growth I’ve noticed that the two-dimensional model fails me at times and can lead to a sense of failure when I have really been growing and progressing. Read more
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright
Article written by Alex Blackwell. Connect with me on Facebook.
On a recent trip out of town I was making my way back to Kansas City with a stop in Atlanta. Although my family and I have made our home in the Midwest for the past eight years, I was raised in the South and often miss its culture and soul. I was reminded of the South’s optimistic spirit during my brief layover at Hartsfield-Jackson International.
With about an hour between flights, I walked Concourse B looking for a quick lunch before boarding the Delta flight home. I wanted to take advantage of my time in the South and was looking for something familiar and comfortable to eat. When I saw the Popeye’s Chicken sign I knew I had found it. Read more
To nurture is to nourish and give; to self-nurture is to do the things that offer physical, emotional, and spiritual nourishment to yourself. – Carol Mithers
Article written by BridgeMaker contributor Ali Hale. Please visit her at Aliventures.com.
Many of us make an effort to be there for friends and family who need us: offering a listening ear, or a shoulder to cry on; providing practical support such as childcare; giving encouragement and unconditional friendship. Read more
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Article written by Alex Blackwell. Connect with me on Facebook.
Life can be unpredictable and can often disappoint when it does not follow our plan. Jobs are lost, marriages end and people become ill and die before we thought we would lose them. However, faith tells us there can meaning to everything that happens; and there can even be meaning for the things which seem to happen only to us when we choose not to simply survive life, but to live it with passion.
Our lives happen quickly. I turned 47-years-old a few days ago and this birthday has hit me particularly hard. The awareness my life is likely more than half over and my 50s will be here before I know it, has given me reason to take an account of how I want to spend the time I have left. Read more
