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Category: Ideas

  • Where is Home?

    Is home where you heart is? Is home where you hang your hat? Is home where you mommy and daddy live? Is home where you live? I know of a few people that do not know where home is. I know others that are just starting to find their home.…

  • Finding a Market

    I’ve been thinking a lot about finding a market where I can harvest the benefits of my investments. In trying to find my market, I’m finding myself – what my passions are – what my skills are – what accomplishments have been – what my opportunities will be. In looking…

  • Selling a Feeling

    I was watching a Seth Godin video – from visceralbusiness.com (I got it off iTunes).  He’s a marketing guru, and he was talking about selling – and marketing.  It’s been interesting to learn about marketing and advertising.  There is a shift for those that are involved in advertising.  When they…

  • Functional Dualism

    I was thinking about my previous post on Leading vs. Managing.  This post is so random.  This is what happens when you take to much time thinking about it. First thought: Is it weird to think about your blog post through out the day?  I just keep mentally chewing on…

  • Email from my brother

    My brother is in Afghanistan.  I have another blog where I update family and friends what he e mails me – tells me when he calls .  I wanted to post his last e mail to me.  It is so beautifully written and so powerful.  I wanted to post it…

  • Leading vs. Managing

    I love to read about Leading vs. Managing.  Typically, when I read about it, most things talk about leading as somehow being better than managing.  It’s always talked about in such a way where leadership is about change, vision, and future.  Management is about more widgets, for cheaper, and no…

  • Spiritual Formation and Leadership Development

    Are you involved in Leadership Development – any kind of leadership development?  What is the role of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Disciplines in Leadership Development?  What do you do?  What tools do you use?  What text do you use?  What theories do you use? I am interested in what you…

  • A reviewed post

    On a recommendation from a friend, I signed up to be a blogger at thejournalofstudentministries.com.  In fact, here is my profile – http://www.thejournalofstudentministries.com/authors/157/Lem–Usita.  Actually, don’t click on it.  Just take my word for it. I submitted a blog post today – in fact, I wrote it in wordpress and then…

  • On teaching adolescents

    I have enjoyed working with adolescents.  I have spent alot of time up front – teaching.  Whether teaching hundreds or just a handful, teaching students has been rewarding as well as entertaining.  I’ve prepared lessons and curriculum for students.  I’ve taken classes on it; I’ve researched and studied in order…

  • What you communicate

    How often do you think about what you communicate?  I’m sure your first thought was, about communicate – what you say or the words that you use.  I guess that is what the question communicates, but I’m thinking about the things that I don’t say and what that communicates.  …

  • My ideas are not I, my ideas are me

    For the longest time, I thought that my ideas = me.  I placed so much of my identity in my ideas that when someone criticized or ridiculed or attacked my ideas – that they were criticizing, ridiculing, and attacking me.  I think it was a sub-concious – well actually, self-conscious…

  • Humbled but not satisfied, content but not done

    This was my status update on Facebook this morning.  I wrote it.  I thought it.  I believe it, but it’s interesting to look at it after I’ve written and really ponder it.  It was a quick thought – but as I continue to think about it, it pretty revealing. What…