Author: Paula
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How to Plan a Retreat: Coming up With a Theme
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The last time we chatted about how to plan a retreat, we talked a little about the beginning of the process. What kinds of roles you might need, what kinds of things to think about before you jumped in, feet first. If you’d like to tune in to a podcast…
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How to Fall In Love with The Messy Middle
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As you start to work towards something new in life, you always hit that new, unfamiliar, not so comfortable stage before you hit your stride with it. This is what I have come to call “The Messy Middle,” a term I first saw on a DIY home improvement blog, but quickly…
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A Love Like That Lights up the Whole Sky
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The Sun Never Says Even after all this timeThe sun never says to the earth,“You owe Me.”Look what happens withA love like that,It lights the Whole Sky.– Hafiz, from The Gift I don’t remember the first time I heard this quote, but it has dazzled and amazed me for…
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What’s in Your Human “Job” Description?
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Many times in life, we learn that there are things that define us well beyond our day to day jobs, or our relationships with others. I like to call one of these defining principals our Human Job Description. In my final year at Yale Divinity School, I was named the…
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How To Market a Retreat
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Marketing for a retreat is one of the key pieces that can also take a lot of time. If you’ve been following along on my “How to Plan a Retreat” series, you’ll note that most of my posts have to do with the retreat itself. Marketing a retreat is an…
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I Want to Help Others Fly
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A year and a half ago, I was working with a life coach, and was looking to leave advertising, and wanted to find a job that would give me better balance, that would shorten my 4 hour daily round trip commute. At the time, I was also trying to decide what…
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Five Minute Friday: Plan
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For such a very long time, it was so important for me to have a plan. For moments to be scheduled, for me to understand what was going on. This is how project managers are … and then, after much searching and wondering and thinking, I realized that I didn’t…
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Our Wedding Dance, or Dancing in the Kitchen
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Sean and I got married in October in an intimate setting. The wedding ceremony we had might not be termed as lavish particularly. But yes, we had plans to host a lavish one amidst a pecan orchard. We even considered booking a Wedding Venue in Fort Worth, TX that had…
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Lent: The Dance of Trying New Things
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On Saturday, Zoom (my son) and I headed up to San Damiano to help my best friend Tammy lead a two hour session with a group of about ten children. The unusual thing about this is that in it’s fifty one year history, this was the first time that San…