2018 Finding Significance

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Frederick Douglass I remember she was crawling. Getting into everything. Learning to walk, pulling all the drawers out. Toys strewn across the floor. … Then, if I’m honest I don’t remember much of her childhood. Smatterings of events, […]

Chasing Signifigance

16 Sep, 2018 in 2018 Finding Significance by Mish Pope

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.” Gretchen Rubin I stand in the kitchen and I do the dishes, again. I wash the clothes, again, and I tidy the house, again. And I feel the never-ending role of motherhood weighing heavily on […]

Significance is built in the small things

15 Sep, 2018 in 2018 Finding Significance tagged parenting by Jodie McCarthy

“It is only when we are present will people get to know us and be able to trust us.” Penny Webb Sometimes I think we believe we can’t be significant and have influence without more gaining more range, a higher education, better skills or a bigger title. Don’t get me […]

Influence Begins by Turning-Up

14 Sep, 2018 in 2018 Finding Significance tagged consistency / influence / leadership / pennywebb / significance / walkthetalk by Penny

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” Pericles Earlier this year I went to a funeral and ever since I’ve been thinking about the significance of a person’s life. At a funeral, you see people whose lives have […]

Weave Your Life Into Others

11 Sep, 2018 in 2018 Finding Significance tagged #conversationsthatmatter / #elainefraser / #elainefraserauthor / #findingsignificance / #Pericles / #Weave Your Life Into Others / kinwomen / significance by Elaine Fraser

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” Rick Warren As a Mum of small children, the monotony of my every day can feel very purposeless. I know, I know, you are ready to tell me all the reasons why being a parent of […]

Purpose Driven Mad

3 Sep, 2018 in 2018 Finding Significance by Amanda