Common-sense grace for the try-hard girl
Achievers are notorious for sacrificing their emotions on the altar of performance and productivity. Can we agree that Jesus has a better way for us? Kerri Strug is at the end of the vault runway at the Olympic Games in July 1996. Her first attempt has left her with an injured ankle. She runs toward […]
It took getting hit by a car to realize I believed two lies about my life. My friend Jennifer and I were training for a half-marathon because I am an idiot, and Jennifer is just really nice. On one of our training runs, we came to an apartment-complex driveway. We stopped as we saw the […]
I love the color, organizing super-powers, and the way file folders and checklists make me feel productive. Yet my heart is screaming for something more from life than a to-do list. This Checklist Life is no way to live. I worked as an event planner in the days before smart phones, a time when every event had […]
This is a prayer for all of us who are Achievers, but who want to Go Rogue. This is a prayer for those of us who want to cease working for worth and recognition, who want to get off the treadmill of comparison and competition, and who want to listen to Jesus, accept His love […]
I was born an Achiever, someone who needs outside approval that can only come from an inside source, my Jesus. Sadly, I believed that my worth is found in what I do, not in whose I am. You probably remember this translated itself into my crazy goal of losing baby weight with my second born. […]
My dad is an Olympic-lover, which means that if the Olympics were on, we were watching. (Where are all my ’80s friends that remember life without a DVR?) After watching the 1984 Summer Olympics, I went to our front yard and pretended that the curb was a balance beam. In my mind, I was Mary […]
In the circles I travel, and by “travel” I mean read on blogs and listen to on podcasts, much is said about purpose: finding it, living it, determining it. We know that we have a purpose and we desperately want to find out what it is. Although Achievers don’t want to waste too much time […]
Just in case you’re wondering on what authority I have to write about the “Achiever Lifestyle,” we’ll start at the beginning. I imagine that your resume is much like mine. My guess is that you were in Gifted and Talented too. Just throwing it out there that you also made straight A’s. You probably also competed at a […]