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Keep Your Mouth Shut
An interesting title of my blog post today, but hang with me, and I’ll tell you what I’ve uncovered. The word “mystery” comes from the Greek verb meaning “keep your mouth shut.” Sometimes to be effective, we need to keep our mouths shut. I’m doing some research on “listening” for our textbook, and this is what I found. It’s a part of an article written by Kenny Moore in the Journal for Quality and Participation. What he’s saying is that you can learn a lot from folks by keeping your mouth shut and listening to them. Good leaders are good listeners, and they can find out more from talking with…
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On Failure
We’ve all had those days. Those days where nothing—absolutely nothing—goes right. Those days when two submissions garner rejections. You ask yourself if you’re failing as a writer.The kind of day when your kid gets in trouble at school and you ask yourself how and why that could have happened. You ask yourself if you’re failing as a parent. Those days when you’ve hurt someone’s feelings unintentionally. You ask yourself if your failing as a friend, a wife, a mother, or a family member. These are the kinds of questions that can keep you awake until 3 o’clock in the morning as you ask yourself what it’s all about, anyway? I…