Thoughts on travel, life ... and that baseline 20%

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Thoughts on travel, life ... and that baseline 20%

In life, as in travel, willingness to invest a little anticipatory time and effort pays big dividends. It may sound like a lot of work to read, learn, think, wrestle, and plan in advance. Even just a bit. And in some ways it is. But the painful reality, as people wiser than I have observed, is that failure to plan is a plan to fail.

Even a small amount of energy invested in advance profoundly enriches the actual experience once you are on the ground, enabling you to travel (and live!) proactively instead of reactively. Explore and experience a city or region on your own terms, rather than simply have it "happen to you." Discover things others will likely miss. Make the most of your time once you're there. Maybe even have more fun along the way!

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Bounded Open Space — in the Lifelong Learning Community

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The concept of bounded open space served as both catalyst and context for the formation of the Lifelong Learning Community (“L3C”) - a password-protected but open-invitation online community formed in the early years of the new millennium.  It provided the conceptual framework and governing philosophy when the community emerged, and remains a useful point of reference as it matures. ...

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Mission critical relationships: find them!

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... We all need Elizabeths who will say to us, “You are blessed!  Blessed is that which you carry in your womb, and blessed are you who believe that the things the Lord has spoken will be fulfilled!”

We need a “band of brothers” — not many, but enough, who stay with us in the battle, cover our backs, and help us discern our deployment orders through the din of warfare .... 

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Perspective Power

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The discovery-turned-conviction that our lives are indeed going somewhere in the providence of God, and that our choices and actions will affect the outcome, can provide that something extra we often need to run the race with excellence. It can help us settle, once-and-for-all, that fundamental "Why?!" question — enabling us to pay the price, stay the course, embrace the on-the-ground reality of living life for something larger than ourselves.

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Let's get on with it!

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We are fully able to live intentionally and purposefully toward a future of God's design, allowing Him to sovereignly weave the naturally disparate threads of our lives into a creative, ever-more-coherent tapestry ....

The King Himself has committed His fathomless loving-kindness to our transformation, our edification, and our successful participation in the unfolding drama of His-story. 

Let's get on with it, shall we?

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