What are you doing right this second?
Reading this, right? But really, where is your mind? Are you in the moment, engaged and thinking about each black and white word on the screen?
Or are you wandering?
Research tells us that people are not paying attention to what they’re doing 47% of the time.
Half the time we’re doing something we’re ... Read More
Jason Kotecki is an artist and a speaker and (as evidenced by his blog below) a gifted writer. His jam is teaching people how to fight “adultitis” — that version of adulthood that says we have to be serious and play it safe and follow a bunch of made up rules. That’s a lesson I’m taking to heart, and I ... Read More
I was sitting in my chair this morning, having a quiet conversation with God and thinking about all the people I know who are intensely hurting right now.
As each one came to mind, I thought about the terrible things that are happening in their lives and the ways it seems the darkness is winning.
I parked my brain in ... Read More
People in church always talk about salvation. Heaven. How someday we’ll get to be with Jesus. I’m a little embarrassed to say it, but those words never sold me on the whole idea of God.
Sure, I suppose I should have cared about my eternal home, but I’m not big into long term planning.
I’m a human and by no stretch of ... Read More
When it comes to inviting people into my home, I need to get over myself, how about you? This week on The Kindness Podcast, I talk with Sue Donaldson, an expert on hospitality.
Sue obviously didn’t say, “Hey, Nic, you need to get over yourself,” but she did remind me that hospitality and humility go hand in hand. As Sue says, ... Read More
My friend got a new shirt the other day and I immediately had closet envy. Here it is:
Hysterical, right?
It reminds me of a t-shirt I have that says, “I can’t adult today” that I wear every time I feel overworked and under appreciated. It gives my kids an immediate heads-up in the morning that they better be putting their own ... Read More
Taffy. That’s what my brain feels like every time I spend any time with James David.
James is an illusionist, and he’s a good one. I’ve seen seven-foot college basketball players scream like 2nd graders after James has made a card appear in a hat across the room or left an imprint on one of their fingers.
It’s wild.
My brain can’t wrap ... Read More
I was about 11 when I started wearing makeup. Full on, entire lid covered, bright blue metallic eye shadow. My girlfriend and I wore it day and night for three weeks before our jazz dance teacher told us we couldn’t come back to class until we had agreed to a costume change.
After that, I was big into wearing anything I ... Read More
We can stare at the major issues in this world — hunger, poverty, violence — and feel like we’re looking into a black hole. Then that terrible question pops into our heads, the one that threatens to derail us from doing good and paralyzes us into doing nothing at all.
How could anything I do make a difference?
Krysten Case fights ... Read More
Patient and Kind. Those two words motivate Lisa Williams in her personal life and on the air in her podcast, Life with Lisa Williams.
You may recognize Lisa’s voice from her years on the nationally broadcast KLOVE morning show. These days she’s teamed up with Cure International to continue to spread kindness through ... Read More
