How to Become a Kidmin Productivity Ninja

How to Become a Kidmin Productivity Ninja

by | Sep 21, 2016 | Uncategorized

Is your desk papered with Post It Notes? Do you have multiple legal pads with lists written on them? When you are working on something or participating in a meeting, are you thinking about all the work you are not doing? Me too. Every fall, the pace of ministry...

Get your ideas organized

by | Aug 10, 2010 | What Matters Now

I am a huge fan of mind-mapping.  It’s an easy way to organize your ideas.  Here’s a great resource on how to get started (crayons required). View the original source for this post I was having trouble getting started on this column, so I turned away from...

Things I’ve Learned About Meetings

by | Mar 4, 2010 | What Matters Now

Tip of the hat to Amy Dolan of Lemon Lime Kids and Greg Carlson of Trinity International University- they both have taught me many of these principles and helped me prepare to be an effective meeting leader. Principles of Effective Meetings 1.  Start with inviting the...

The Hour of Power

by | Jan 13, 2010 | What Matters Now

From the fog of past memories, I recall a televangelist show named the “Hour of Power.”  I do not recall what happened on the show, probably because I often changed the channel to something more like the “Hour of Cartoons” (which I was obsessed...

Getting Things Done

by | May 6, 2009 | What Matters Now

I’m a huge fan of the StrengthsFinders assessment.  When I took it a few years ago and read my results for the first time, I felt like someone was describing what I always knew about myself but never put into words before.  My primary strength is Activator. ...