Tag: Purpose

Chip

Florida sand trail
Unremarkable and ordinary situations can have outcomes that are shocking and tragic.

 

Bird feathers scattered on the ground
While running. This ended fatally for the bird.

 

He retired at 52 this past Summer. Chip, the father of our son’s Sunday School friend, responded to two (separate) local Police Officer murders.

A suicidal young couple that killed a Windermere Police officer before taking their own lives.

Plus, in a separate incident, two teens at the new LA Fitness construction site where another Windermere Police Officer was checking out their suspicious behavior at 4am – one of the teens fatally shot the officer.

Chip was a fire fighter for 25 years. He’s 52. We occasionally see each other at the gym. We haven’t seen each other since i retired 14 months ago. i chose not to mention i too am retired. Being retired is a major life milestone. But it pales in comparison to the dreams he has at night from those emergency responder calls.

 

__________

 

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my career health website, click here.

Want a quick way to understand task versus purpose?

 

Want a quick way to understand task versus purpose?

Michael Jr, comedian, with a purpose driven video. Was exposed to this on the second morning of the leadership retreat (two days ago).

By the way, task is what you are hired to do. Purpose is doing more than you are paid for because you cannot help yourself – because it brings you joy and it comes from the heart, and it is something you can not imagine giving up.

 

__________

 

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my career health website, click here.

What is worth defending?

Disney Cultural transformation workshop
If something is not worth defending, it will never be defended.

 

This may be the most important question you ask yourself as a leader.

If you don’t have something worth defending, what do you think you are leading?

 

__________

 

This website is about our spiritual health. To leave this site to read today’s post on my career health website, click here.

The aha moment arrived quietly yesterday

Time flies
Three days ago. Photo: Cheryl Noel

 

Dear Son, i finally figured out why we hug everyday after school (in the parking lot) before getting in the car. And why we’ve done it everyday for the for the past 13 years.

So you could start understanding how important it is to have things you can count on no matter what.

Remember yesterday’s storm and how we ran to the car in the rain?

Remember last night the final thing i did was enter your room in the dark and kinda crush you with a hug as you were trying to fall asleep?

Better late than never.

Some things are not worth missing a single day.

Next Blog