A while ago I encouraged my daughter Zara not to listen to a friend who wanted her to do something that she didn’t feel good about.
“Trust yourself and listen to yourself,” I said to her.
It made perfect sense.
Then recently Zara didn’t want to take part in a ski camp that I knew she’d love and would be great for her skiing.
“I don’t want to do it, you told me to listen to myself,” she said to me.
She’s a sharp thinker!
The reality is that we need to listen to ourselves, but we also at times need to listen to others.
I guess the filter then is trust; listen to those you trust have both your best interests at heart AND have the knowledge to know what’s best.
They need to have both.
It’s a good lesson for kids, and for us older kids too.
(Zara’s loved the ski camp BTW as I knew she would!)
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.