Intention
Searching for Your Higher Purpose?
It’s not easy, but these six tips can help. Purpose. Passion. Meaning. We yearn for those three things in our
It’s not easy, but these six tips can help. Purpose. Passion. Meaning. We yearn for those three things in our
Turbulence creates an enormous amount of energy. Just think of the force of the tornado or water in rapids or
WARNING: If you love bureaucracy, you’ll hate this post. If your life is consumed with climbing the corporate ladder, this post will give you a splitting headache. If you are in what is considered a “safe” occupation (HR/accounting/law) – be prepared to be unnerved.
This is a follow-up to my post about unlearning. Here, you’ll learn what you might need to unlearn about how organizations operate and the work done within them. The content of this post draws both on my personal experience with a variety of organizations I work with, and the work of Frederic Laloux and his book, Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness.
I’m an advocate of Thanksgiving 365 days a year. Not the wonderful meal. Not the football games or parades or dog shows on TV. But the practice of gratitude.
So one week later – I encourage you to keep it up. And for good reasons – exactly 14 of them. Learn what they are, here…
On April 19, 2011, our home was stuck by a tornado. It toppled six of the lovely and enormous 100 year oak trees that surrounded our house. It demolished our garage, blew the roof of our barn and totally destroyed the deep woods behind our house. In general, it was a gargantuan mess of debris and fallen trees and branches. Three years later, I am reminded of a hard, cold truth about transformation – that it takes time.
I wish each of you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2014 – in all the unique ways that matter to you!
In our Evergreen Leadership Process we have a way to continually stay fresh and healthy. The new year is a great time to build this practice into your life – and will yield better results than the tradition of making resolutions. Take a look…
I was a bit surprised when advised that wearing sunglasses in India was culturally inappropriate. At the end of two weeks, I took away a big leadership lesson.
Learning to let go is freeing – it frees my energy, it allows me to focus on more postive things, it robs the person that inflicted the hurt the power to inflict ongoing harm. Yet letting go is not easy. Here are some ways in which I’ve gotten better (note I am better – not perfect) at letting go.
Guest blogger MaryAnn Rivers shares a simple 5 step renewal of confidence system you can begin today. Commit to doing these steps regularly and you will see results. In fact, as you build confidence it multiplies and soon you will be doing things you never imagined possible.
For much of my life, I flung myself blindly into each day. I typically asked myself at the beginning of the day, “What do I need to do today?” Then I had two different friends ask me two compelling questions that stopped me dead in my tracks.
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