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Michael Warden
- Mar 13
- 5 min
How to Own Your Fear
Fear in itself is not dangerous. But refusing to feel it definitely is.
Michael Warden
- Feb 26
- 3 min
How Do You Fix a Broken World? Start With Yourself.
Addressing the nonsense in the world must begin with addressing the nonsense in ourselves—or it doesn't begin at all.
Michael Warden
- Feb 15
- 3 min
Why You Need "No-Agenda, Non-Doing" Time
When I am overwhelmed, "on a scale of 1 to 10, I’m feeling my emotions at about a 10, I'm paying attention to them at about a 5, and I...
Michael Warden
- Feb 12
- 2 min
The Surprising Power of “Slow and Present” Leadership
“Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your...
Michael Warden
- Feb 5
- 1 min
WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW
WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW Do not despise the sinking dread Do not turn away from that hollow ache To not know is to be human. Do not hate the...
Michael Warden
- Jan 30
- 2 min
“Head Only” Decision-Making VS. Discernment
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." — Albert Einstein Typically, when I talk with leaders...
Michael Warden
- Jan 18
- 4 min
Why “Head Only” Leadership Just Won’t Cut It Anymore
"As leaders, we've been taught to operate within a very narrow band of awareness. On any given day, most of who we are is largely absent...
Michael Warden
- Jan 9
- 3 min
5 Simple Ways to Promote Burnout and Lose Talent
"Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others." — John Maxwell The Great Resignation...
Michael Warden
- Jan 2
- 1 min
FIND ME
FIND ME My eyes rise to reveal these wet cheeks glowing under the pale cast of the winter moon Skyward, I lift up my cry, a frail lament,...
Michael Warden
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
A 4-Step Process to Dethrone Fear
"Fear has gained a big foothold in the lives of men, precisely because men deny fear and won't deal with it." — Richard Rohr Whenever we...
Michael Warden
- Nov 18, 2021
- 3 min
How to Be More Grateful Moment to Moment
“Stillness…makes space for gratitude and wonder.” — Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key Gratitude is good for you. By now I bet you’ve...
Michael Warden
- Nov 7, 2021
- 4 min
Only God Can Tell You Who You Are
“Now with God’s help, I shall become myself.” — Søren Kierkegaard When you come into this life, the world starts making demands on you,...
Michael Warden
- Oct 24, 2021
- 2 min
I'm Writing a New Book! (Sneak Peek)
Couple of firsts for me this week to let you know about: 1. I started learning how to use InDesign, Adobe's desktop publishing software,...
Michael Warden
- Oct 12, 2021
- 3 min
Why is God so Hard to find?
"You should act more responsibly, God, with all that gorgeousness you possess." — Mira One of the most challenging paradoxes about God is...
Michael Warden
- Sep 26, 2021
- 3 min
You Are Still Being Created
"Surely everything He has made must be perfect." — St. Francis We misunderstand God’s creative process in us. We think the work of...
Michael Warden
- Sep 21, 2021
- 2 min
The Art You May Become
“Art is the conversation between lovers. Art offers an opening for the heart. True art makes the divine silence in the soul break into...
Michael Warden
- Sep 13, 2021
- 2 min
Whether You Comply Or Resist, Don't Give in to Contempt and Hate
“Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.” - 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 I love...
Michael Warden
- Aug 8, 2021
- 5 min
The "Pandemic That Just Won’t End" Survival Guide
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of...
Michael Warden
- Jul 11, 2021
- 3 min
You Have to Pray Naked
“Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.” — Rabia The great challenge of prayer is that it only works when...
Michael Warden
- Jul 3, 2021
- 1 min
CONSIDER THE SKY
CONSIDER THE SKY Where do you travel hidden in shadow, your black waves in ecstasy, churning under the broad, undulant wings of Seraphim...
Michael Warden
- Jun 12, 2021
- 2 min
Waking Up
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery...
Michael Warden
- May 15, 2021
- 4 min
Owning Your Leadership Impact
“Of all deceivers fear most yourself!” – Søren Kierkegaard As fictional leaders go, nobody beats Michael Scott for awkward. In the...
Michael Warden
- Apr 26, 2021
- 2 min
What If? (an exercise in possibility)
“Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your...
Michael Warden
- Apr 12, 2021
- 3 min
3 Ways to Create More Joy in Your Life
“We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that...
Michael Warden
- Feb 27, 2021
- 2 min
Say Yes to the Longing
We have a duty to befriend Those aspects of obedience That stand outside of our house And shout to our reason “O please, O please, Come...
Michael Warden
- Feb 27, 2021
- 1 min
THE END TIMES
THE END TIMES Stretch out your hands Here, at the bleeding edge Here, at the trembling cusp of everything Bless the bright canyon into...
Michael Warden
- Feb 14, 2021
- 2 min
"Grace-Filled" Leadership Isn't What You Think It Is
"Grace, she takes the blame, she covers the shame, removes the stain." — U2 I do a lot of work in churches and faith-based NPOs. In both...
Michael Warden
- Jan 25, 2021
- 5 min
4 Keys to Becoming Your True Self in Christ
“Each has within him a secret of the Divinity; each is growing towards the revelation of that secret to himself, and so to the full...
Michael Warden
- Jan 11, 2021
- 5 min
3 Keys to Living Wholehearted in Difficult Times
I took a walk with God yesterday. I’ve had this nagging question in my heart, and I wanted to get to the bottom of it: Why do I have this...
Michael Warden
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
WHAT IT'S LIKE
WHAT IT’S LIKE (6th of January 2021, a Wednesday) Here is what it’s like: You’re standing on the cliff’s edge over a deep dry canyon of...
Michael Warden
- Dec 15, 2020
- 1 min
ONLY WONDER KNOWS
ONLY WONDER KNOWS You’ll never really know anything until you’ve listened to the worship of glaciers or for long quiet days bent your ear...
Michael Warden
- Dec 13, 2020
- 3 min
Checking Your Position (A Year-End Life review)
"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The Big art is our life." — M.C. Richards When back country hiking through unfamiliar...
Michael Warden
- Dec 13, 2020
- 3 min
You Have to Live the Questions
“It is by learning the questions slowly and attentively that we are drawn into the depth of things, and, frankly, the sadness of things,...
Michael Warden
- Nov 30, 2020
- 3 min
Now is the Time for Peacemakers
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” (Matthew 5:9) The Greek word for “peacemakers” in the quote from...
Michael Warden
- Nov 14, 2020
- 3 min
The BraveHeart Intensive: Why Only Courageous Men Sign Up
“Each man has only one genuine vocation—to find the way to himself....His task is to discover his own destiny—not an arbitrary one—and to...
Michael Warden
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
30 Ways to De-Stress This Week
“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”...
Michael Warden
- Oct 22, 2020
- 1 min
WILL YOU?
WILL YOU? I came to the edge beyond the yowling cities of the Earth beyond the yearning harbor of Círden beyond the lost shores of...
Michael Warden
- Sep 30, 2020
- 1 min
INTERSTITIAL SLIPSTREAM
INTERSTITIAL SLIPSTREAM I seek you in the maelstrom of the mundane world my finger on the pulse of that eternal thread that lives between...
Michael Warden
- Sep 2, 2020
- 6 min
7 Keys to Sensemaking in a Time of Fake News
“Sensemaking…refers to how we structure the unknown so as to be able to act in it. Sensemaking involves coming up with a plausible...
Michael Warden
- Aug 7, 2020
- 4 min
You Must Get to Know Your Shadow
"The self that God consistently loves is not my prettied-up pretend self but my actual self—the real me. But, master of delusion that I...
Michael Warden
- Jul 31, 2020
- 4 min
You Must Let Go of Your False Self
“The heart has to shed the distractions that keep it from knowing the truth about itself… you won't be what you are until you stop...
Michael Warden
- Jul 15, 2020
- 1 min
LET THERE BE
LET THERE BE Let there be light and agents of light you and me with eyes wide open seeing as we’re meant to things as they are Let us...
Michael Warden
- Jul 13, 2020
- 4 min
You Must Die to Your Reputation
“To be nobody but yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest...
Michael Warden
- Jun 29, 2020
- 7 min
How to Be a Courageous Listener
What the world needs now is the courage to listen.
Michael Warden
- Jun 1, 2020
- 8 min
What Now? The Art of Living in Uncertain Times
How do you live well when "Normal" isn't an option anymore?
Michael Warden
- May 21, 2020
- 2 min
Creating A New Normal
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Michael Warden
- Apr 20, 2020
- 4 min
Now is the Time to Re-Dream the Future
Nothing should go back to normal. Normal wasn’t working. If we go back to the way things were, we will have lost the lesson. May we rise...