Schedule & Prayer Requests

June:: Major events

  • 7th  Portland, OR:  Initial Consulting Conversation with signficant church 
  • 10th  Costa Mesa, CA:  Speaking to Rock Harbor Staff
  • 11th  Coaching Appointments
  • 12-14  Seattle, WA:  Family Reunion/Niece’s College Grad.
  • 15-19  Project Planning, Writing
  • 20th  Costa Mesa, CA:  Church Planter’s Training (am)
               Irvine, CA:  Speaking to New Song Summer Missionaries
  • 22-23 Meeting with Personal Mentor
  • 24th  Coaching Appt.s
  • 25th  National Leadership Team
  • 29-3  Writing, Ministry Planning

 

Prayer Focus ::

  1. We continue to pray and wait on the Lord for healing|surgical solution solution to our son Ryan’s heart problem.
  2. June marks a shift into the summer opportunity for creative development of plans and written resources that will make a difference over the next year.
  3. Tiffany (our daughter) is busy preparing for move to London in July.

Recent Content

Self-Care is not Selfish

It was early Friday morning and I really wanted to get out for a bike ride. I needed the exercise, I knew the outdoors and sweat would do me good, but I had a long list of projects that needed to be completed. Then it hit me. Self-Care will always feel self-serving.

COMMUNITY — THE FIFTH “C”

It used to be that the notion of a leader as Lone Ranger was a good thing. Riding in on a white horse to save the day single-handedly is the way great leaders carried themselves. That day is over. Today, leaders that operate today as autocratic individualists are suspect.

Calling & Courage

How big is the wake behind your "boat?" Do you cut through the waters of life without leaving a mark, or do the waves of your wake reverberate in people long after you are gone? The 5 "C's" of Leadership Capacity are qualities that translate into the breadth and depth of a leader's influence: aka. the wake behind "your boat."

Character & Competency

Character-deep leaders understand the relationship between character and competency. While character may be the key to influence, they have also learned to rely on their competencies much like a master-mechanic relies on tools.

Five C’s of High Capacity Leaders

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Life is Fragile…and Sacred

When you are a child, you are typically oblivious to the dangers that surround you. When you are a teenager, you feel downright indestructible. As a young adult, it seems we are just too busy with a million irons in the fire to notice our own mortality. But somehow, as you get older you come [...]

Runner’s up for Book of the Year 2008

What were your books of the year? My runner's up for book of the year honors are: Tribes by Seth Godin; and Emotionally Healthy Spirituality by Pete Scazzero.

about LEADING

  • Most people spend their lives fighting off the wind and the waves of the ocean. Leaders chart a way through them. aboutLEADING is the personal blog of Gary Mayes and a forum to discuss lessons at the intersection of life and leadership.

Asides

  • The VISION issue of www.noredcapes.com just went live. It features articles and resources to help leaders with the challenges of vision clarification and communication.  (noREDcapes is a journal for leaders that I publish every couple months.)

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