Category: Between the Ears

Liminal leadership is the practice of guiding teams through transitional, “in-between” periods where the old way of doing things no longer works, but the future remains unclear. Liminal means existing at a threshold, the space between what was and what is about to be. I was recently introduced to this leadership concept and was nudged…

I caught myself doing it again this week. Standing in my kitchen, looking at a banana and a bag of chips like it was some kind of moral test, hearing the old familiar sermon in my head: you should eat better, work harder, be nicer, save more, pray longer, look younger, do more. It was…

Some decisions feel heavy before you ever make them. Not always because the answer is impossible, but because the noise around the answer gets loud. I love options. I love choices. And yet… Options multiply. Outcomes compete. Fear disguises itself as careful thinking. And before long, delay starts to feel like the responsible thing to…

Maybe the guilt isn’t humility. Maybe it’s image management. I woke up feeling great the other day. As the 60’s song, Feelin’ Groovy, says, “I had no promises to keep, no deeds to do!” And that’s the way my life has been going recently, steady and anticipated. I’m not disturbed because life is steady. I’m…