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Introvert Anxiety Triggers – It’s a Thing!

Dec 4, 2017 | adversity, anxiety, Calling, Change, Christian Living, Contentment, Culture, Discernment, Fulfillment, God's Ordering, Healing, Humility, Identity, Inspiration, Introverts, Leadership, Learn, Let Anxiety be Your Teacher, Life Seasons, Listening Up, Mental Health, Old Testament, Personal Growth, Purpose, Revelation, Scripture, Service, Shaping, Stress, Taking Risks, Testimony, Trials, Wins, Wisdom, Work Life, YLU17

I can’t help wondering if there is a direct link between anxiety and introverts. The more I think about it, the more I believe it to be true. And, as a classic introvert, I am of course thinking about it – often. A while back, I wrote a post titled “Okay, You’re an...

Impostor Syndrome keeps us from being who God created us to be. And the Devil loves it. But we don't always have to control the narrative. Take out the earbuds, and thrive.

Impostor Syndrome and Giving Up Control of the Narrative

Mar 29, 2017 | adversity, anxiety, big picture, Change, Contentment, Culture, Discernment, Dreams, Ephesians, Faith, Fulfillment, Grace, Healing, Hope, Identity, Inspiration, Leadership, Life Seasons, Listening Up, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Purpose, Shaping, Take Out the Earbuds, The Potter, Trials, Tweetable, Vision, Wins, Wisdom, Work Life, YLU17

I learned about something called Impostor Syndrome a few years ago. It gave me an understanding of something I intuitively knew, but couldn't label. In short, it’s a concept describing high-achieving individuals who have a fear of being exposed as fraud. They are...

When it comes to viewing life, we have a tendency to paint everything according to what we know through experiences, education and more.

Viewing Life with a Mirror and Microscope – 7 Posts

Feb 27, 2017 | 2 Chronicles, 2 Corinthians, anxiety, big picture, big-picture, Culture, Depression, Ephesians, Fulfillment, Identity, John, Leadership, Learn, Listening Up, Look With Mirrors - Not Microsopes, Matthew, Mental Health, Psalms, Shaping, YLU17

There are many ways we can go about viewing life. That's because there are many ways in which we filter the way we see. Be it experiences, education or otherwise, we have a tendency to paint everything according to what we know. Of course, we could get more granular,...

Ever consider your worldview or the filters that made it so? Here, are some key events that - for better or worse - are defining an always on generation,

Consider the Filters That Construct Your Personal Worldview

Feb 13, 2017 | adversity, anxiety, big picture, big-picture, Change, Culture, Featured, Fulfillment, Hope, Leadership, Learn, Listening Up, Look With Mirrors - Not Microsopes, Mental Health, Revelation, Shaping, Vision, Work Life, YLU17

How often do you give thought to your personal worldview? I think about mine often - probably more than I should. However, that doesn’t mean it is not important, nor should it be taken lightly. As the saying goes, if you don’t stand for anything, you might fall for...

Faithfully serving God means a lot of things. And it all starts with a question: What if You Faithfully Said Yes to God?

Faithfully Saying Yes to God & Life’s Seasons – 7 Posts

Dec 19, 2016 | adversity, anxiety, big picture, Calling, Change, Consider Saying Yes, Faith, Fulfillment, God's Ordering, Inspiration, Leadership, Life Seasons, Matthew, Mental Health, Missions, Obedience, Personal Growth, providence, Purpose, Service, Shaping, Taking Risks, Trials, Vision, Wisdom, Work Life

Faithfully saying yes to God means a lot of things. Because of that, in the posts that are shared below, we can see that it means taking risks, and questioning what we thought we knew. It also means knowing how to respond when presented with decisions that must be...

What does it mean to SHOW UP? There are many ways , actually. This post shares a few of the many different ways we should seek to show up.

Some of the Many Ways We Can Show Up – 7 Posts

Nov 20, 2016 | anxiety, big picture, Calling, Darkness, Discernment, Dreams, Faith, Fulfillment, Inspiration, Learn, Mental Health, providence, Revelation, Show Up, Wisdom, Work Life

What does it mean to SHOW UP? When I first unpacked this life lesson in Listen Up, Kids, it was about being physically present. In a sense, it was along the lines of show up to school every day and you will at least get a good score in attendance/participation. As I...

We put off facing fears for many reasons. Those fears come in many sizes. Here's why facing them allows you to gain small victories that can be hugely rewarding in victory.

Facing Fears… and Trying Not to Throw Up

Oct 3, 2016 | 1Glories, adversity, anxiety, Change, Embrace Small Victories, Fulfillment, Hope, Inspiration, Isaiah, Leadership, Listening Up, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Stress, Taking Risks, Testimony, Trials, Tweetable, Wins

Facing fears can come in various sizes. There can be enormous fears, like getting out of toxic relationships because a fear of being alone outweighs the alternatives. And we can also be facing fears that some may consider silly, like spiders, clowns or traveling too...

Humans have a survival instinct and desire for comfort zones. They have short-circuited our thinking and lead us to seek shortcuts instead of excellence.

How Survival Instinct & Comfort Zones Screwed Us Up

Jul 5, 2016 | 1 Corinthians, 1 Peter, adversity, anxiety, big picture, Change, Contentment, Culture, Discernment, Dreams, Faith, Freedom, Fulfillment, Get Out of Your Comfort Zone, God's Ordering, Hebrews, Hope, James, Jeremiah, John, Leadership, Life Seasons, Marriage, Mental Health, New Testament, Obedience, Old Testament, Personal Growth, Prayer, Proverbs, Revelation, Scripture, Shaping, Taking Risks, Trials, Tweetable, Vision, Wins, Wisdom

Human beings are wired with a survival instinct. Some call it our reptilian brains and many are quick to reference Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs as evidence. There has been a lot of more recent neuroscience to further affirm this human need for survival at all costs....

Your Choice in How to HAndle Fear Deprives You of the Adventure God has Planned for You

When You Have No Choice, You May Surprise Yourself

Jun 29, 2016 | adversity, anxiety, Change, Fulfillment, Learn, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Revelation

"Hey, when you ain't got a choice, you might be surprised at what you can do." This is what Rodney said to me one evening in the parking lot of an Autozone. I had recently met Rodney, a scrufty fellow who had maybe three full outfits to his name, no regular employment...

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