by Darren Ethier (@nerrad)
Thanks to a wonderful church family who believe in supporting their pastors in growing as leaders I was able to attend Catalyst 2009 (link takes you to Catalyst Backstage – a great way to follow what’s happening) this year. I am so grateful – thanks friends! Today was the day for the “Labs” sessions here at […]
This is the final post in the series “Why? An Important Question” In the last post we looked at the first good answer for the question why? …because there’s purpose. However, another good way to answer that question is because of vision. Purpose deals with the task at hand, vision is seeing the whole picture. […]
In the last two posts in this series we’ve looked at some not-so-good ways to answer the question WHY you are doing something or making a particular choice. For the next two posts I’m just going to quickly look at a couple good ways to answer this question. The first is probably fairly obvious. You […]
The first “bad” answer to the question, “Why are you doing what your doing OR why did you make that choice OR why are you going to do what you are doing?” was “because that’s the way it’s always been done”. The next is: …because “so-and-so” is doing it (or does it that way). And […]
Whenever you set out to do something or make a life choice if you’re like most people you have a reason for what you are doing or the choice you’re making. A reason that answers the question, “why?” Even if you don’t have an obvious reason for what you do or a choice you make, […]
Momentum is a tricky thing. It can be positive or negative. Positive momentum is movement forward in the right direction, negative momentum is moving in the wrong direction. Positive momentum leads to growth, negative momentum leads to death. The more momentum there is the quicker either will happen. Every organization has momentum – I really […]