Perseverance: Being Present to Discomfort
I’ve come to appreciate perseverance comes from being present to discomfort. Feeling uncomfortable is disconcerting and disorienting. Over the years, feeling discomfort and being present to what's needed in those moments has led me to challenges and obstacles to be...
byLucy Shenouda
Opening New Doors
The people in the organization that bring curiousity into conversation open new doors. They start the process of setting the bar of excellence. The persistence in digging deeper, challenging the status quo and doing so with a true sense of...
byLucy Shenouda
Do we raise the bar?
The visionaries who raise the bar in their chosen fields walk converging paths marked with hope and fear. As they do new things, they win, they fail, they learn, they win again, fail again and continue on their journey resilient...
byLucy Shenouda
Echoes of a Time Gone Past
I am haunted by reverberating echoes in my mind. The type of echoes that draw me inward. Echoes of past regrets and burdensome worries. I feel weighed down. I feel overly stressed.
byLucy Shenouda
Clothes Don’t Fit
I go on looking through my wardrobe and pick a few pieces in the back of the closet. Pieces I haven’t worn for a long while. On the surface, I tell myself the outfit is a classic, timeless. Deep down,...
byLucy Shenouda
The Quest for Creativity – Chapter 2: Being a Hostage to Certainty
The quest for creativity is a lifelong learning process. The potential for creativity, in my view, is immense. I lean in on what I learned as a child, to pursue creativity with a bucket load of curiousity, eyes open, alert,...
byLucy Shenouda
