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Do You Respect Yourself?

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Self-Respect : pride (a right estimation of self) and confidence in oneself, a feeling that one is behaving with honor and dignity (worthy of honor and respect) ; self-esteem ; loving yourself and treating yourself with care Lately, the more I explore and find out about myself, the more I'm hesitant to go deeper or further and peeling back the layers. Even with God. Let me explain.  In learning about how to make friends (in "building connections"), I realized that if we can know ourselves better (our motives, our biases, our habits, etc.), then we can go into a relationship with greater understanding. We can adjust ourselves to meet the other person on a more personable level, if that makes any sense. So, in getting to know myself, I took a variety of personality tests - the Myers-Briggs and Enneagram are what I'll reference below. I expected some of their results, and yet others were surprising... The Myers-Briggs said currently I'm an ENFJ (The Teacher). Of cour...
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The Notes of a "Well-Read" Leader-Manager

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This has been the most interesting year - a year of growth as a leader in particular. In times before, I felt the need to have approval . If I had an idea or was about to make a decision that affected more than just me... more than just those under me (for the day)... but affected the future, I needed to run it by a "higher up" first. I may have been a leader (as someone who "led" by example and coached or directed those "following"), but I wasn't actually in charge of the animal I was leading. This year has been different. I see myself as managing this entire ecosystem. In a sense, there is more freedom, but there is also a huge responsibility with every step I take... there is room and permission to fail (a major topic of my last post).  Because of all of this, I felt determined to be the best leader-manager. I couldn't wait for someone else to lead me, but I could begin getting the tools and implement it now. And, it would start with how I was t...
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God Loves Messy Things

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This has been months in the making. On March 23, 2023, the Lord woke me up early at around 2AM and as I lay there in bed, He revealed to me that my husband and I were forming bad habits and it was being passed on into our kids. He started by "downloading" a blueprint we could use to approach our household chores. That morning, I went to my husband nervous about what he was going to say in response, but surprisingly,  he had been thinking about the same thing for weeks: habits. For God sees everything you do and His eyes are wide open as He observes every single habit you have.    Proverbs 5:21 Over the next few months, we began integrating these new systems into our house. Morning Briefings - Don't stop meeting with your husband in the morning, only to exchange it for a TikTok session - but continue and instead, begin with prayer. Start your day praying for each other rather than building it on busyness and productivity. From Justin Whitmel Eearley's chapter on Wakin...
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