We are all looking for validation in the things we are building or creating. Insecurities and self doubt are a part of any creative endeavor, but I feel like our generation is taking it to new levels of “unhealthy”. My recommendation…
Announce Your Goals or Keep Them Secret?
A quick exploration of two opposing schools of thought.
An Open Letter to Dreamers
The world needs you to be pursuing your passions.
Travel Diary: Bali, Indonesia
Surf wasn't great. Everything else was.
We are all looking for validation in the things we are building or creating. Insecurities and self doubt are a part of any creative endeavor, but I feel like our generation is taking it to new levels of “unhealthy”. My recommendation…
Earlier this month I had the incredible opportunity to curate and moderate a panel of friends who work in the social good space to discuss their experiences leading organizations with purpose. The panelists consisted of lady bosses that lead some of my favorite local organizations in the Orange County area.
It’s no doubt that we are experiencing a time in our country — and our world — of deep division and uncertainty. For many reading this blog, this moment is unprecedented and we are unsure of where to turn to process all that is happening. While the current political turmoil comes top of mind when we speak of division, I believe that it is really only a symptom of a much greater issue. That is…
Our desire to position others as different than ourselves is one of the greatest threats our world faces today.
In small and large ways, this notion has crept into our thinking. Subtle lessons learned through our upbringing to our own personal experiences have shaped our worldview and cemented the notion that we are somehow different. In its most damning form this manifests itself as a belief of knowing more or being better than other people, cultures, or ideologies. This way of thinking has negatively impacted everything from global policy to our own communities.
I imagine most people who start something do so to meet a need they witness. They have an idea or an opportunity for a solution to a problem in their own life — or in the lives of others — so they begin to work. It’s not glamorous and it’s uncertain what the finish line looks like or if there is one at all.
That was us 10 years ago when we set out on this journey known as Krochet Kids intl. We established a plan to provide meaningful work to women in Northern Uganda as a means for them to take back control of their futures. To put them back in the driver’s seat of their lives.
The above video is a snapshot of what that first day of crochet training was all about.
A decade later we find ourselves overfull with gratitude, with the same spirit of optimism, and perhaps carrying even more questions than when we first started. We have realized the hard-to-swallow truth that anyone realizes as they pour themselves into meaningful work. That is to say, our goal is not to attain some unattainable or fleeting idea of mastery, but to commit yourself to a consistent process of improvement and to walk with long obedience in the same direction.
The patient result becomes one you could not have imagined or planned for in the beginning and it is very good.
Earlier this year I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Israel for a 10-day trip throughout the country. I was invited by my friends at Socality to take part in a trip hosted by Israel Collective — an organization “dedicated to building vibrant relationships between American Christian leaders and the people of the Holy Land” (from their website).
In retrospect, one of the biggest blessings was that I hadn’t previously thought much about or really ever planned to visit Israel, thus I went in with no expectations of what I would experience. This lead me to be pleasantly surprised by EVERY aspect of our trip, and especially the people and culture we were able to experience while there.
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