The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, On Thursday I wrote about a list I used to build every time I was about to leave for vacation. Long. Thorough. Something I pushed myself to get through, one more item, one more email, until I had at least made a real dent in it. What changed was not the list. It was the question underneath it. Is this actually urgent, or is this just how I have trained myself to respond. If you read It Was Never About the List, you already have the fuller story. What I want to...

The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, Last week I closed out a four-part series on the blog. It is called Living in the And, and it started back in June with one honest sentence: I am holding two callings at once, and the math between them has never worked evenly. By the last post, what I actually needed to say turned out to be smaller than I expected. Not a system for balancing everything. Just this. Not every good thing gets to be the one thing at the same time. This year, that meant closing two...

The Flourishing Note™ Hi Reader, It is mid-July, and the year has quietly crossed its halfway mark again. Last summer, around this same week, I wrote a post called Your Permission to Realign. Two weeks after that, I wrote The Mid-Year Reset. I wrote them because I needed them, right then, as much for myself as for anyone reading. I went back and reread both of them this week. Not because anything has gone wrong. Just because it is July again, and I wanted to see if the words still held up....