Shards

A shard is what is referred to as a broken piece of pottery, specifically broken glass. That was the word I heard as a picture of myself sitting on the floor with shards lay in front of me. A lot like a child looking at a broken toy. For me these shards represented missed opportunities,…

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Notice the Baby Koalas

Get your FREE ONE HOUR Anothen Consultation today! Recently, we took our family back to Australia for a long overdue visit. Several years had passed since our last sojourn down under, and we wanted to reconnect with family and friends, as well as introduce our Aussie people to our new daughter-in-law, Bella.  Bella was excited…

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Frustration, a Valuable Trigger to Stay Focused

Get your FREE ONE HOUR Anothen Consultation today! For years I have lived with the conviction that frustration should be prevented. Somewhere during my journey I started believing that frustration was a bad thing. I even had a theology to support this. Recently, about 12 months ago I started to pay attention as to why…

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Avoiding Sub-Optimal Outcomes

Get your FREE ONE HOUR Anothen Consultation today! As a senior business executive for the past 30+ years, I have had many opportunities for making strategic decisions, and hopefully learning something from them.  I believe that over time, those decisions became more reasoned, better informed, and ultimately more successful. The ones that turned out to…

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Something Is Missing

Get your FREE ONE HOUR Anothen Consultation today! “Fast-forward to me as a grown woman…and somehow I recognized that there was something, or someone, that I had missed along the way. My cozy memory of asking Jesus into my heart…did not match my current inner turmoil. As I put my journal away that night, I…

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Doubts Define Your Destiny

Get your FREE ONE HOUR Anothen Consultation today! As I sit here in my office this morning, I see there are many areas in my current existence that generate more questions than answers. Questions concerning the daily leadership issues that always plague the running of a complex organization; questions that arise from seeing our youngest…

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THE REFINERS FIRE

Get your FREE ONE HOUR Anothen Consultation today! The process of refining silver is a rigorous one. When it is mined from the ground, silver is raw and unrefined. If a silversmith were to take unrefined silver and attempt to shape it into a platter, he would find that the finished product would lack the…

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DECLARATION—WHY DO IT?

In ancient hand-to-hand combat when two opposing armies came to battle, each army would gather at either end of the battlefield. There the commanding officers would inspire their respective troops with a rousing declaration designed to fire the men with hope and purpose…

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