The last several months have reminded me that a plan is not only useful when everything goes as hoped. It's crucial in helping you return to center when life knocks you off track. Earlier this year illness disrupted all of the healthy rhythms I had established. As I worked to get well and regain momentum, while also adjusting to a team member going out unexpectedly with a severe health issue, I reaped the benefit of building in buffers and staggering projects deadlines. Alt

As Christians, we recite scripture, we learn the stories, we celebrate the holidays, but do we take up our own crosses? Do we strive each day to be living Proof of the Promise?

"The more I thought about it, the question I asked myself switched from, “What can I do?” to “What do I want? What can I actually handle? What would I love waking up to every day? What would my life need to look like for that to happen?”

I had been working to excess, instead of allowing working with excellence and integrity to be enough. I had forgotten moderation. I had forgotten Grace... But God hadn’t forgotten me.

And I froze. I had not visited those words in what felt like forever. Have you ever felt this way before, CEO? Where one question breaks something open in you that makes you see everything differently?

Sometimes when life throws us curveballs--when God allows the very unexpected to happen--it can stop us dead in our tracks.