thoughts on life, leadership, ministry and whatever other weird stuff comes to mind

• off to talk design stuff for worldchangers. i love design stuff! good design is beautiful… #
• did i mention i love design?! great meeting with james and max, and we really got some great ideas together for worldchangers this year. #
• Currently wading through a bunch of reading for my doctoral seminar in July - woo boy! Hard to get into the groove of this kind of reading. #

i think i’m figuring out a good definition for “leadership”… leadership is largely about making good decisions in a timely way. it’s about being decisive and picking what should happen next, and being good at that.

at the end of the day, it seems to me that there are a bunch of things that leadership is about, but when it comes right down to it, that’s leadership in its purest form. there’s other stuff that follows the decision, but that’s the point that starts it all, and it’s the point that non-leaders can’t get past well.

just a thought i’m thinking…

“What you cry about today, you will laugh about tomorrow.” - Fred Smith

Gee, I sure hope so! :-/

“If you think Education is difficult, try being stupid.”

you KNOW it’s true…

• a pretty productive start to the week. always good to get the basic priorities for the week down on paper so you have a gameplan to attack. #
• Another absolutely beautiful Autumn day here in Perth, but I didn’t get to see too much of it. Trapped in a room with numbers… #

Autumn in Perth

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• Unbelievable! Had a booking with a place for Mothers Day lunch, but got a bunch of grief for being 15 mins late. We left. And won’t return. #
• Watching a pod of dolphins here at the Foreshore. How cool is that?! #
• After blowing off the really rude restaurant (this was their 3rd - & last - poor run), we ended up having a really great fast food picnic! #

i really like this… very profound…

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and play, his labour and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion.

He hardly know which is which. He simply pusues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.

To him he is always doing both.”

– James Michener

i understand EXACTLY what he is saying… most of the time!
[via nicholas bate]

Local shot - Sunday arvo

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Mothers Day at the Foreshore - awesome!

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