Kim Levings

The Honest Conversation You've Been Avoiding There's a passage in Romans that reminds us of the human-ness of the apostle Paul. Paul – an apostle, theologian, church planter, someone who had, by any measure, figured a few things out — writes this with disarming honesty: "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do."  (Romans 7:15) This honest reflection is a powerful example of vulnerability, too. The man who wrote half the New Testament couldn't...

The Art of Doubling Down on What's Actually Working There's a bias built into most evaluation processes — whether we're reviewing a business quarter or reflecting on a personal season — and it's this: we are far more drawn to what went wrong than to what went right. It makes sense, neurologically. Our brains are wired to flag problems, to scan for threats, to spend disproportionate energy on the gap between where we are and where we want to be. It's a survival mechanism that served our...

New April Blog Series "You can't manage what you haven't measured — and you can't change what you haven't named." There’s a moment most of us have had — usually somewhere between the busyness of January’s fresh resolve and the creeping reality of March — where we stop and think: Is this actually working? Not the business. Not the strategy. Not just the KPIs or the quarterly targets. But — the whole thing. Life. The pace. The priorities. The relationships. The quiet sense that some parts of...