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New Here? Read This First.
Welcome to The Arena. Glad you are here. This is not a course library or a content feed. It is a community built around one idea: you already know what you want to do. You just need people around you while you do it. Here is how to get started: Step 1. Introduce yourself in the Introductions thread. Your name, where you are from, and one thing you are working on right now. That is it. No pressure, no performance. Step 2. Head to the classroom and start with Do the Thing. It is free, it is short, and it will give you a framework you can use immediately. Step 3. If you have questions, ask them. In the feed, in a thread, or reach out directly. Nobody figures this out alone and that is exactly why this place exists. This is your room now. Use it.
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Welcome to The ARENA.
You made it. Welcome to The Arena. This is where real people do the real work. Whatever that looks like for you. First — tell us your thing. Drop a comment below. Pick one: - I know my thing and I'm ready to go - I know my thing but I don't know where to start - I don't know my thing yet and I need help finding it All three belong here. No wrong answer. What's waiting for you: Every week I show up in this feed with something real — a question, a challenge, a thought worth sitting with. Show up with me. Every Sunday, we have a group Zoom. Open to everyone. Real questions, real conversation. No agenda, no performance. Do the Thing — a free six-module self-coaching framework is dropping soon. It's your first step inside The Arena. Watch for it. Free members get the community, the Zooms, and Do the Thing. When you're ready to go deeper — courses, coaching, and more are available. You'll know when it's time. Want to go deeper now? Coaching is available. Book a free 30-minute call [here]. One rule. We don't let the pause become a full stop. Now drop your thing below. Let's get to work.
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What were you made for?
I want to ask you something this week. What do you think you were made for? Not what you do for a living. Not what you are good at. Not what other people expect from you. What do you actually think you were put here to do and become? I ask because I believe every person in this room was formed for more than they are currently living. Not because your life is bad. Because you have more in you. Drop your answer below. One sentence is enough. I will go first.
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Long Week
Started my hospital chaplain orientation and it has been a lot. Good, but a lot. I'm checking in to let you know tonight's Zoom is canceled. I've got an overnight shift at the hospital and I can't make it work. We'll be back next week. Same time, same place. Thanks for your patience as I navigate this new season. The work we're doing in The Arena matters to me and I'm not going anywhere. See you next week. — Nico
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Faith
During my scribing time this morning, I was in Genesis chapter 15, the famous passage of God’s covenant with Abram. Verse 6 says, “And [Abram] believed the LORD, and [the LORD] counted it to him as righteousness,” (ESV). There is a note in my study Bible that reads on this verse, “A person’s faith or lack of it is most apparent in crises such as Abram was facing.” A person’s faith or lack of it is most apparent in crises. I had a moment last week where I had another episode, and was overwhelmed by the frustration of being done with my body giving out on me and being so tired of getting lightheaded and having to stop what I’m doing and sit down and rest, lest I lose consciousness. I remember thinking in that moment how relatively easy it was been to stay faithful and content in my circumstances up to this point, and how my absolute trust in the goodness of God has not at all been shaken. But it has been months and we are no closer to answers. I can’t help feeling like now is when the real battle begins. Now is when my body is continually weakened and the discipline of rest sewn in with all my other goals is going to become paramount. Now is when the real test of character is going to be had. Will I continue to find joy and contentment in whatever the LORD has sought to bring me through, or will my faith waiver and allow me to begin questioning God’s goodness in my suffering? I want to vehemently declare the former, and am ready for the fight that will ensue. But I’m glad I have a community for accountability and encouragement through this process. What is it that is testing your faith in this season?
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