Director of Leadership Performance
The New York City Leadership Center

I must be a slow processor, because it has taken me a full year to articulate the impact of walking through the Listen to My Life sessions!  A year later, I find that much of the material has made its way into the way that I think, the way that I teach/speak, and the way that I journal and pursue God.  Only a month ago, I was writing a talk to be given to a group of professional women in Manhattan.  As I read back over the talk it finally dawned on me how much of what I wanted to communicate to those women had come from all that I learned about my own story intersecting with God’s story through Listen To My Life.  What a treasure this has been to me!

The Reviewing My Days map has proven to be a powerful tool for me as I quiet all the noises (inside and outside my mind and heart) and bring it all before the Lord.  I’ve been journaling for a long time, but this tool has disciplined my wandering mind to a focused state that has been difficult for me to achieve before.  It only takes 12-15 minutes and then I feel focused and ready to enter into worship and prayer.  I am so grateful to you for introducing this to me.  I’ve shared this idea around journaling with at least 600 New Yorkers in the last few weeks.   I have used a mix of the questions that you gave us as well as some of the questions in the self leadership chapter of Courageous Leadership.  I continue to change the questions periodically as I find new questions that force me to be more honest.  This isn’t for everyone, but when I’m tired of running, hiding, and striving  I like to “cut to the chase” by using my glue stick (ha!) to glue one of these pages into my journal, put the date in the middle, answer the questions, and then enter into a time of surrender before God.  Anything that helps me to do that more efficiently and more honestly is a real treasure.

Thank you for your investment in me!  I am so very grateful!