by Mary Henton | Mar 24, 2022 | Leadership, Learning, Personal development
If you’re a professional, tradesperson, business owner, a manager, director, or supervisor of any sort, consider lending a hand to a younger or less experienced colleague. Consider mentoring someone who has potential to grow, to more fully serve, to contribute to your...
by Mary Henton | Jan 6, 2022 | Leadership, Personal development
As we turn the calendar page from 2021 to 2022, it seems like everyone is writing about goals. So why am I throwing my words into the air? Because I want to go out on a limb, practice integrity and vulnerability, and walk my talk. Like most of you, I’ve set goals for...
by Mary Henton | Aug 18, 2021 | Courage, Personal development
Since January I’ve been thinking a lot about courage. It’s a topic that comes up in the Insight into Action group coaching program. It’s also a topic that underlies many individual coaching conversations. If you read Brené Brown’s work or listen to any of her talks,...
by Mary Henton | Jul 5, 2021 | Courage, Learning, Personal development
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives...
by Mary Henton | Jun 23, 2021 | Courage, Faith, Personal development
My good friend Linda Stormes just posted a piece entitled “Because of the Unexpected” on her site. It’s a beautiful piece that she wrote on the occasion of her birthday. She notes that the hole in her heart, which she’s had from birth, is a metaphor for “embracing...
by Mary Henton | Jun 15, 2021 | Learning, Personal development
One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person’s pain without trying to fix it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person’s mystery and misery. Standing there we feel useless and powerless, which is exactly how the...
