personal growth Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/personal-growth/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:33:37 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/brianharrisauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-brianharrisauthor-favicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 personal growth Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/personal-growth/ 32 32 93416650 When the Mountain is You: Three Habits that Lead to Self-Sabotage https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-the-mountain-is-you-the-art-of-avoiding-self-sabotage/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-the-mountain-is-you-the-art-of-avoiding-self-sabotage/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=6541 Most of us (and I include myself here) are instinctive blamers. When something goes wrong, it’s obvious whose fault it is. It’s theirs, and if it wasn’t for them, life would be so much better. The trouble is that every now and then we realise that that simply isn’t true. It is alleged that when […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-the-mountain-is-you-the-art-of-avoiding-self-sabotage/feed/ 2 6541 To Tend and to Keep: The Joy of Nurturing and Protecting https://brianharrisauthor.com/to-tend-and-to-keep-the-joy-of-nurturing-and-protecting/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/to-tend-and-to-keep-the-joy-of-nurturing-and-protecting/#comments Sat, 24 May 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5592 I’m part of AVENIR Leadership Institute and was recently in Brisbane helping a client devise their strategic plan for the next 5 years. Their CEO, Matt Vandepeer, started one of our days with a beautiful devotion based on Genesis 2:15, “the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/to-tend-and-to-keep-the-joy-of-nurturing-and-protecting/feed/ 1 5592 Dead Poets, Cold Swims and Epektasis: My Takeaways from 2024 https://brianharrisauthor.com/dead-poets-cold-swims-and-epektasis-my-takeaways-from-2024/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/dead-poets-cold-swims-and-epektasis-my-takeaways-from-2024/#comments Sat, 28 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5197 Last night Rosemary and I watched Dead Poets Society. It felt like a good thing to do as a new year beckons. There are not many 35 year movies that can hold my attention, but this is one of them. There is so much I resonate with, but also a fair amount that niggles and […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/dead-poets-cold-swims-and-epektasis-my-takeaways-from-2024/feed/ 2 5197 The Thirty Proverbs Challenge: Formulating your Life Learnings. https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-thirty-proverbs-challenge-formulating-your-life-learnings/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-thirty-proverbs-challenge-formulating-your-life-learnings/#comments Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4974 Proverbs 22:20 reads, “I have written thirty sayings for you, filled with advice and knowledge.” What follows are a wide range of helpful insights from the noble “Do not rob the poor… for the Lord is their defender” (V22) to the controversial “Don’t fail to correct your children. They won’t die if you spank them” […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/the-thirty-proverbs-challenge-formulating-your-life-learnings/feed/ 6 4974 Beyond Disappointment… https://brianharrisauthor.com/beyond-disappointment/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/beyond-disappointment/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2024 23:25:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4761 We all have to deal with disappointment. While our expectations are sometimes exceeded, often it works in the opposite direction. You were sure you’d get the great job you applied for, but then didn’t even get an interview. You thought a new relationship was going to go to a new level, but then the other […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/beyond-disappointment/feed/ 1 4761 Why not try framing… https://brianharrisauthor.com/why-not-try-framing/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/why-not-try-framing/#respond Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4619 In his insightful book The Remarkable Ordinary, Frederick Buechner observes that artists get us to see things by putting a frame around them, effectively saying, “stop and notice me”. Often it is with very ordinary things, a flower, a bowl of fruit, a human face. The artist puts a frame around it and our attention […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/why-not-try-framing/feed/ 0 4619 Limiting Beliefs: Things that hold us back https://brianharrisauthor.com/limiting-beliefs-things-that-hold-us-back/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/limiting-beliefs-things-that-hold-us-back/#comments Sat, 03 Jun 2023 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4319 I was recently talking to someone who felt God had let them down badly. The marriage hadn’t gone well even though they felt they had done everything right. Of course they had indulged in a few little squabbles and minor bouts of selfishness, but nothing that seemed to justify the marriage ending in such a […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/limiting-beliefs-things-that-hold-us-back/feed/ 1 4319 Deeper-Wider: To be and to do… https://brianharrisauthor.com/deeper-wider-to-be-and-to-do/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/deeper-wider-to-be-and-to-do/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=4075 You might know that I am very involved with the Carey Group and wearing my AVENIR hat, helped devise their vision document Carey 2026. It’s framed around the theme “Deeper Foundations – Widening Reach” or more simply, “Deeper-Wider” – a wonderful refrain for a missional movement like Carey. In an age when many are content […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/deeper-wider-to-be-and-to-do/feed/ 4 4075 Thinking about Fixed and Growth Mindsets https://brianharrisauthor.com/thinking-about-fixed-and-growth-mindsets/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/thinking-about-fixed-and-growth-mindsets/#respond Sat, 14 May 2022 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3770 While Carol Dweck’s 2007 book Mindset is no longer new, it continues to spark rich conversations about the difference between fixed and growth mindsets. The basic thesis is simple: Some people approach life with a fixed mindset, assuming that they are born with certain talents and abilities and that relatively little can be done to […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/thinking-about-fixed-and-growth-mindsets/feed/ 0 3770 Praying the journey… https://brianharrisauthor.com/praying-the-journey/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/praying-the-journey/#comments Tue, 05 May 2020 22:00:17 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3292 My Sabbatical leave is almost over, and what an unusual season it has been. I spent part of it at Carson Newman University in Tennessee, and after seven wonderful weeks close to the Smoky Mountains, Rosemary and I had to dash back to Australia to avoid being locked out, potentially for many months. It did […]

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