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I Need Your Money for 2 Things

by Adam Lehman on February 15, 2012 in Ramblings with No comments

I don’t often ask for money, but when I do there’s a good reason.

#1 HopeMob on Kickstarter

[Update: HopeMob REACHED THEIR GOAL!]

First off, head over to Kickstarter and pledge to Hope Mob. It’s a campaign to organize some good in a world full of marketers trying to sell us crap we don’t need. Sean King is heading it up and he’s done some ridiculously awesome stuff using social media.

So far they’ve raised over $100,000, but don’t get a dime unless they hit their $125,000 goal.

#2 I’m running a Half-Marathon

Anyone who knows me knows that raising money & running for long (or short) distances isn’t really my thing.

But I’m pretty passionate about the cause I’m running for. It’s transformed my life. So check it out:

Donate to Adam Lehman runs 13.1 for YFC

Will the Real Valentine Please Stand Up?!

by Adam Lehman on February 14, 2012 in Ramblings with 1 Comment

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St. Valentine was a holy priest in Rome, who, with St. Marius and his family, assisted the martyrs in the persecution under Claudius II.

He was apprehended, and sent by the emperor to the prefect of Rome, who, on finding all his promises to make him renounce his faith ineffectual, commanded him to be beaten with clubs, and afterwards, to be beheaded, which was executed on February 14, about the year 270.

Woah. Way more epic than a box of chocolates or some flowers….

Moral of the Story: manufactured, mass market notions pale in comparison to honesty.

*for more on St. Valentine, read up on Wikipedia. 

 

 

Turning 26 and Other Things

by Adam Lehman on September 23, 2011 in Ramblings with 1 Comment
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I turned 26 on Monday. Sometimes people try to make the birthday boy pump out a speech. Here are a few thoughts…

  • 40+ of you have participated in the Life Outline Project. Thanks a TON! You can still participate here.
  • Allie organized a surprise dinner for me in the back room of a yummy Thai restaurant with some of my best buds. Nice work Allie! and thanks a ton to those that showed up.
  • Far too many of you wrote happy birthday on my Facebook wall. Far too few of you wrote something original & unique.
  • A “Happy Birthday” on Twitter is far more meaningful than the same on Facebook.
  • On the night of my birthday, I spent 5 hours winning a sand volleyball tournament with my colleagues from my awesome job. Fun times!
25 was a good year. I moved to a sweet apartment. Got a new job that I LOVE! Made some awesome friends and started turning my hobby into a profitable side-hustle. I’m PUMPED to see what happens in my next year.
Bring It!

Working On

by Adam Lehman on July 25, 2011 in Ramblings with 2 Comments

Lately, I’ve been working on a lot of different things. It’s fun. My life is chaotic, in a great way.

Here’s a few things I’ve been toying around with, if any of these things sound interesting to you, let me know. I love working WITH people.

Small Business Growth

I’ve been working with a handful of folks on growing their small businesses. Each of them is operating out of a a very lean, bootstrapping way. I’m at my best when I’m wooing others into God’s dreams for their lives. Helping these people turn their passions into businesses is a blast.

Sales

Ever since moving from a paid-church staff employee and moving into a full-time sales position, a new world has opened up before me. I’m learning how to enlarge the territory of incoming business. Hunting. It’s a blast and I’m using my new skills to help folks who are trying to enlarge their sphere of influence.

Social Media

Working with several organizations to help develop a strategy behind using Twitter, Facebook, email marketing & blog to share their story, turn strangers into fans and fans into customers. The beautiful thing about all of these mediums is that they’re “free.”  A brand new company has the same tools as a global juggernaut.

Website Design

Building websites for pastors, businesses & organizations that want to bring their brand to the internet. Whether refreshing a stale site or adding a blog, I work to turn your passion into something both your loyal fans and Google will love.

Speaking

Sharing messages with youth groups. Developing both discussion-based and more “lecture style” formats.

 

*If you’re interested in talking about any these services, shoot at email to adam@adamlehman.us

Happy Birthday to Allie Lehman!

by Adam Lehman on May 9, 2011 in Ramblings with No comments

Happy Birthday @Alliepal!

Today is my favorite holiday of the year! It’s the birthday of Allison Lehman.

Top 10 things you need to know about Allie:

  1. She’s a graphic design ninja.
  2. She is the human version of our dog Desh.
  3. Thoughtful. She is very.
  4. Without trying too hard, she’s a social media champion.
  5. She cries at all emotion moments on TV.
  6. She writes my favorite blog.
  7. The most committed, loyal being on the planet.
  8. She’s incredibly creative and imaginative, but isn’t your stereotypical, flaky artist.
  9. Softest skin ever.
  10. I make moonbeams shoot out of her fingertips.

When I’m Not Sure What to Do

by Adam Lehman on October 20, 2010 in Culture, Ramblings with 3 Comments

I use several different tools to catalog tasks I need to accomplish. I use a product for project management, another for calendering, another for my to-do list.

But when I don’t know what to do, I end up sleeping in, checking facebook a lot & watching a lot more TV.

Those are not things that lead to a meaningful life. In fact, they’re things that can get in the way of one.

Some call this natural tendancy toward meaningless pursuits “The Resistance” and others have called it our “Lizardbrain.” Regardless of the name, we all feel it. When we’re not on a mission, we seem to sink into a couch and do very little.

So to keep myself on pace to continually dominate my life, I do this simple activity when I’m unsure of what I should do.

I think, what things are leading me into mediocrity right now? I write down a handful of simple tasks that directly combat those temptations. I do them. After repeating that process for a few days, I find myself tackling bigger issues. I find myself taking on more ambitious projects. A handful of simple tasks aimed at battling mediocrity can build momentum.

Just thought I’d share.

Love Ain’t No Microwave

by Adam Lehman on September 4, 2010 in Ramblings with No comments

Love isn’t fast.

It isn’t efficient.

It doesn’t matter.

Love doesn’t care.

Love is more like a marinade…

…and less like a microwave.

Today is Important

by Adam Lehman on August 11, 2010 in Ramblings with No comments

Today is an important day.

Nothing is scheduled to be important and if you looked through my calender, you’d find yourself pondering why I’d label the day as “important.”

But the reason I’d call it so is because we find what one is obsessed with when there is no calender. We find what one is made of when there is no direction and freedom allows us to choose one. Today I have every direction to proceed and I get to choose. My choice portrays who I am and what I’m about.

The things I say when I’m not required to say anything speak a great deal of my heart. What do I say when there is no expectation? Will it be love? Will it be gossip? Will is be simply trying to make others laugh?

Today is important.

you’ve got my permission

by Adam Lehman on July 26, 2010 in Ramblings with 2 Comments

Being yourself is much harder than being someone else.

Being yourself means people might reject YOU. They might not like YOU. They might fire YOU.

But being yourself is the best. You’ve gotta do it. There is no pleasure that comes with being someone else. Sometimes we all try to be like what we’d imagine our boss/spouse/friends would want us to be & we’re miserable the entire time.

Well you’ve got my permission:

be yourself.

art is not [just] a painting

by Adam Lehman on July 7, 2010 in Ramblings with No comments

Art is the way a society tells stories. Art is a vehicle.

Read through some art history and it’s not very hard to see how the Church was at the forefront of making incredible art.

Read through the Bible and it’s not very hard to see how the Church had an incredible story to help people connect with.

If the Church is to get it’s foot back in the water of being a progressive art community it’s going to take more than hanging photography and oil paintings on the walls of our buildings.

If art is the way people tell stories, here are some modern day forms of art:

  • the type of clothes you wear (or don’t wear)
  • music
  • answering the phone
  • websites
  • videos
  • powerpoint or keynote backgrounds
  • sermons
  • twitter accounts
  • facebook profiles
  • your church announcements
  • print materials
  • poems

These are simply a few of the ways we can tell stories. Surely in your context, there are a lot more. Which is why it’s YOUR responsibility to figure out the way your village communicates stories and then go do it.

*(Painting above is by Makoto Fujimura)

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