Echo Conference went phenomenally. There are things we’re tweaking for next year. We have a list of ways we can improve. But it truly went well. It was a very different experience, working behind the scenes. I got to experience so very little of the conference. And I had short bits of time where I…
Today starts my busy week. If you work in a church, you might compare this to your Easter or Christmas week/month. I’m about to learn a lot of lessons really fast. I’ll try to keep them catalogued so I can share them here. And I’ll see you on the other side of this week.
I got an email a few days ago with this question: We are starting the process of “reinventing” creative planning for our programming team. We just get too far behind to make ideas fully come to fruition. Do you have a suggestion to help us with our creative planning process? It’s a great question. Working…
Echo Conference is only a week away. Typing that sentence made me want to throw up just now. This year, our team has over 1,000 church creatives converging on Dallas for three days. They’re expecting amazing teaching, a really good time, great laughs, inspiration, and a bunch of stuff I feel completely under-qualified to deliver…
There’s one thing that most frequently ruins my day. It’s checking my email first thing in the morning. I know I shouldn’t do it. But to me, my inbox is a bucket full of possibilities. I get so excited with each new “ding”…hoping for great new horizons to unfold before me. Unfortunately, when I get…
Yesterday I received a tweet that almost wrecked my day. We’d made a small mistake with an email we sent. And the tweet amounted to: “Looks like Echo is off to a bad start already.” It wrecked my morning and most of my lunch. I was so upset. I felt so stressed, inadequate, and criticized.…
You can’t judge your productivity by your to-do list. If I could, yesterday would have been the least productive day in my life. I only had a few things on my list and finished the day with most of them undone. It could have been super frustrating for me. But my day was actually filled…
I’ve love this quote since Jean Sibelius the first time I read it: “Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic.” If you’re creating anything for public consumption, you’ll deal with critics. Even if you just have some ideas you’re sharing with folks, you’ll receive “helpful” criticism.…
Last week, one of our Echo team members sent an email to every attendee. Unfortunately, she added all the email addresses in the “To” field instead of the “BCC” field. Very contra email etiquette. As soon as she hit “send”, she walked into my office with her face drooping to the floor. She felt horrible.…
I’ve been working on writing a devotional for creatives for quite a while. I finished a couple months ago and sent it off for editing. It finally came back – covered in digital red ink. So many edits. So many notes. So many places where I missed the mark. Fortunately, my editor was wise enough…