This week we discuss types 5 & 6

A key question in Professional Coaching (and the rest of life!) is, “If you’re saying Yes to this, what are you saying No to?” It’s key, because it reflects a simple reality: saying Yes to certain things necessarily means saying No to others. 

The reverse is true, too.

Some Yeses begin with Noes. For the Apostle Paul, one thing especially.

This week we discuss Enneagram types 2, 3, and 4

"It has always been that way" is a phrase no dynamic leader wants to hear. Or to put it another way, madness is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. The way things are now is due to the decisions of whoever went before. This is a fact, of course. But it does not need to be a life sentence.

The Prophet Ezekiel speaks to the defeated people of God with a bracing and forthright message. It is a message full of hope not only for the distant future, but for now as well.

In a parable about the astounding generosity of God (link to readings), we’re meant to find ourselves siding with the wrong people—primarily concerned about equity and the proper disbursement of wages. It gets at something visceral.
 
This is because the biggest problem with God’s generosity is that is so often violates our own sense of right and wrong, our sense of how things would be if we ran the world. Fair. Equitable. We’d get what we’ve earned.
 
This parable, however, insists that God is a really lousy bookkeeper.