Tag: question

  • Seeing Other…..

    Seeing Other…..

    …..is not something that can be easily done. We easily assume that seeing another is something that we can all do, but I don’t think you can necessarily see another until you have an established and mature sense of identity and self. I was working on a writing project –…

  • Unknowing Yourself

    Unknowing Yourself

    I had never thought about ‘unknowing yourself’ as part of the process of getting to know yourself – or even more important being more yourself. It is a concept that I heard from Lori Gottlieb. She says, “But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go…

  • Watch Greatness

    Watch Greatness

    The great theologian Tracy Morgan asked – How you going to expect to be great if you don’t study greatness?  Okay, those weren’t the exact words, but close enough.  We can also argue later whether he’s a theologian or not. I actually heard this line from someone else, but it…

  • How Is Your Soul?

    How Is Your Soul?

    A quick post about the depth of soul – that’s where identity work is done.

  • In Order to be Humble

    In Order to be Humble

    ……..you kinda have to be great first – or at least think that you’re great. Humility means that you are amazing.  If you aren’t that amazing, there wouldn’t be a need for humility would there. What do you think?

  • Why A Watch?

    Why A Watch?

    I recently got a watch as a gift.  It was a gorgeous watch.  It’s very cool looking.  I didn’t recognize the brand so I did a quick Google search for it.  It’s worth quite a lot.  It’s quite a nice watch. I have a few watches actually.  Nice watches.  They…

  • I Enjoy You

    Have you ever heard anyone say that to you?  Do you know anyone that enjoys you? When you enjoy someone, you just want to be around them – all the time.  I guess the first question for me is – are you that kind of person – the kind that…

  • Planned Spontaneity

    Planned Spontaneity

    Have you ever heard anyone break down spontaneity?  I was a little surprised when I heard someone break it down today.  They identified it’s parts and articulated how spontaneity works, but they were talking about planned spontaneity.  They were trying to game spontaneity. At first my thought was, that’s dumb.…

  • Are You Photo-Realistic?

    Are You Photo-Realistic?

    I couldn’t tell you what the impetus for this post was.  I must have heard it or read it somewhere, and I instantly titled this post and saved it as a draft.  Now coming back to write the actual post, I can’t remember what brought about this thought. It is…

  • What Do You Think About When You Think About a Million?

    What Do You Think About When You Think About a Million?

    My Facebook status this morning was – Lem Usita is a million a big number to you? 4hours ago · Comment · Like The responses were interesting.  At the end of the day, the answer depends on what you’re thinking about – and how much of that thing you have. …

  • Emotionally Frozen 2

    I wrote about this awhile ago – here‘s the post.  I talk about how when someone is emotionally frozen that it is that thing that prevents identity formation from happening.  It was an interesting idea when I wrote it, but I have checked my stats and there have been a…

  • The Responsibility of Vision #leadership #vision

    questions and definitions – the responsibility of leadership