On Purpose with Mike Omoniyi
Weekly writing on faith, purpose, and what it actually takes to build a life that means something.
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I'm Locking In. Here's What I'm Locking Out (opens the original)
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Good morning.Every September for the last few years I have quietly gone missing. There is no announcement and no farewell post, just a slow narrowing of the diary, a few unanswered invitations, and a version of me in December holding something I did not have in August. It has happened often enough now that I have stopped calling it a coincidence and started calling it a method. This year I want to do it with you rather than beside you, which is why the Great Lock In starts today.Before I make th
Still Got More. (opens the original)
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Hey everyone, Somewhere around the tenth mile of a long run through Greenwich Park, I decided I was finished. My legs had gone heavy in that particular way that feels like an argument you are losing, my breathing had turned ugly, and I had already begun drafting the excuse I would tell myself later that evening. I walked for about ninety seconds and drank some water. Then, for reasons I still cannot properly explain, I started running again, and the final three miles were the best of the day.The
Why are young men being failed? (opens the original)
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Good morning.A while back I wrote in a notebook that the hardest part of building anything is not the idea. The idea is cheap. The hard part is finding people who will carry the thing with you when it stops being exciting and starts being work. Last week I finished hiring six of them, full-time, for Common Sense.It took longer than I planned. It cost more than I budgeted. I sat through interviews that went nowhere and read applications that made me question my job description more than the appli
Do you really have to pick a lane? (opens the original)
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Good morningThank you for reading and interacting with the last post. I received good feedback on it and its this kind of feedback that makes me excited to keep writing. Lets dive into a personal reflection today but also something exciting to announce at the end of this. Someone I respected once took me for coffee to tell me, gently and with real affec… Read more
Your Success Is Not Inevitable (opens the original)
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Good MorningThere is a quiet lie that a certain kind of person carries with them into their thirties. The lie is that their success is inevitable. Not stated out loud, of course, and never that crude. It lives in the background of their thinking, a low hum of confidence that everything will work out because it always has, or because the people around th… Read more
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