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These posts are from and for four of my latest books - "Compassionate Capitalism: A Journey to the Soul of Business", "Discover Your Inner Strength", "Three Dimensional Coaching" and "I Am God".
2023-09-01 20:52
The following is from Richard Rohr's Daily Meditations newsletter. Mirabai Starr poetically describes the contemplative experience that is stirred through regular lives, wheth… Read More
2022-01-18 18:52
The illusion that we are separate from anything let alone each other is the greatest danger we as a species face. Its pervasive hold on our collective consciousness drives such destructive… Read More
2021-11-13 00:15
  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a Buddhist monk and international teacher, left one of the three monasteries of which he was abbot to spend several years on a retreat journey. Foll… Read More
2020-10-24 00:31
What limits most of us has nothing to do with our lacking skills or intelligence. Nor does it have anything to do with being wrong or sick. What limits most of us is that we are living… Read More
2020-09-13 17:03
I’m unique…as is everyone and everything who ever has or ever will have an existence. The difficulty being unique presents is that, literally, no one can or ever will truly kno… Read More
2020-06-13 00:37
It started with difficulty sleeping because of a simple backache that wouldn’t go away. A little more than four years later, she was dead and my entire world had been turned upside d… Read More
2020-01-03 18:17
Is good enough really good enough? It’s your choice and what you choose is who you become. The Stoics believed that a beautiful life was the result of beautiful decisions. They also… Read More
2019-09-13 15:22
This post is from Fr. Richard Rohr, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation. It is an elegant, thoughtful, and insightful commentary on the nature of our current reality. Facing… Read More
2019-01-02 14:17
In my meditation today I focused on the following offering from Fr. Richard Rohr. It fully captures the perennial philosophy as the constant thread weaving wisdom and what we call reality… Read More
2018-12-31 19:35
We're all familiar with the adage "practice makes perfect." In fact practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes habits!   When I consider the ideals of my life I look at the ideal… Read More
2018-12-16 21:22
Part of my morning ritual includes reading a daily meditation that is offered each morning by Fr. Richard Rohr, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation. Today's meditation is… Read More
2018-07-20 15:53
I AM the believer limited by my beliefs, the knower defined by the known. The world is my conditioned consciousness objectified. That which I feel and believe to be true of myself is now… Read More
2018-07-13 12:35
I have long said that the success of any organization, whether it’s a family, a society, or a business, is going to be predicated on how functionally successful the relationships that… Read More
2018-05-26 21:46
“Done is better than perfect.” ~ Anne Mollegen Smith As a manager, one of the more typical causes of problems encountered is the all too common human desire to be perfect or to… Read More
2018-01-04 01:51
“Imagination is the only weapon against reality.” ~ Lewis Carroll“The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” ~ Carl Jung You can’t real… Read More
2017-05-18 16:39
The difference between being committed to something and being a commitment are profound. Most people, when speaking and thinking of commitments think in terms of something outsid… Read More
2017-03-16 16:14
As related by Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda... A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it;and then he looks and rejoices and laughs; and then he sees and knows. He k… Read More
2017-02-06 17:30
When stripped of the behavioral characteristics, the personality distinctions, and the situational competencies typically used to describe a leader, what one is left with is movement &nda……Read More
2016-11-13 05:12
The rallies and protests occurring in the wake of Trump’s election victory are understandable...the aspirational future of the millennial generation has been shaken to its core. Ele… Read More
2016-09-29 18:14
"My obligation right now is to do well for (1)myself, (2)my family, (3)my employees, (4)for my companies. And that's what I do." ~ Donald Trump, Presidential Debate, 9/26/16. (Emphasis an… Read More
2016-05-16 18:30
On April 26, 2016 an article titled “A Majority of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows” appeared in the Washington Post. The article cited a Harvard University survey w… Read More
2016-04-19 04:53
Capitalism was, as are all such ideas, sourced from an ideal – in this case the “Invisible Hand” of enlightened self interest espoused by Adam Smith. It was an ideal that… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
In the aftermath of the Seattle Seahawks wonderful Super Bowl victory, exploring this question may lead you to some interesting conclusions about how to "run" both your life and your busines… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
All organizations - big or small, corporation or family - are essentially just a collection of people that are in relationship. Duh, you might think. But let's really take a look at this def… Read More
2016-01-19 20:37
Today, the default focus for almost every business in operation on the planet is the creation of profits. This focus is so pervasive in the paradigm that defines business that it has becom… Read More
2015-10-07 17:16
Peter Drucker famously said that “…culture will eat strategy for lunch.” And, indeed it will. As a consequence, much of the leadership development and change management… Read More
2015-04-18 00:07
Literature is full of references to speaking from the heart. Mystics, philosophers and religious leaders have all referenced for millennia the importance of linking our words to that which… Read More
2014-12-09 22:50
I saw a CNN headline on Dec. 8 that said "Does speaking out hurt an athlete's brand?". The question begs an answer that addresses a far larger problem than that being focused on by the "I c… Read More
2014-11-04 02:17
For most of us the future (and what we "have" in it) is a construct of our past. I'm an X kind of person with an X personality and that's why I have X types of results. This is where the not… Read More
2014-10-09 04:00
“Let us forget the lapse of time; let us forget the conflict of opinions.Let us make our appeal to the infinite, and take up our positions there."~ Chauang Tzu (399 - 295 B.C.) Leonar… Read More
2014-08-17 01:13
I’m on currently on a private jet (a Citation X…the fastest private jet in the sky!) on my way to Toronto from Seattle. I’m travelling with my amazing good friend Bob Proc… Read More
2014-08-06 20:12
This is a wonderful piece titled "The Egg" by Andrew Weil...enjoy the way it makes you think! You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remark… Read More
2014-05-12 23:51
If you're a business owner, executive or manager I'd like you to stop for a moment and think about why you may want to consider building your business NOT to last. With a tip of the hat to… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
All businesses set goals – financial goals, productivity goals, expansion goals, sales goals. Most people set individual goals – weight loss, income increases, new and/or better… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing you’ve always done and expecting to achieve different results. Looking around the world today it strikes me that the human r… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
How does stillness generate activity? I'm reminded of what Michael, the protagonist in Robert Heinlein's classic science fiction book Stranger in a Strange Land would say – “wait… Read More

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