A Flow to Simplicity through Focus
The path of genuine sharing is along the trail of focus. What others need most from us comes from the best of who we are; our trueness. In my flow to simplicity I very often get in my own way−wrapped...
View ArticleA Flow to Simplicity through Freedom
This is the last in a series of 7 on A Flow to Simplicity. As I bring you this piece on Freedom, here is a summary of the prior 6: Growth ~ Holding tight to the journey that is your growth and...
View ArticleListen Deeply – Impact
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you. Before you tell your life what truths and values you have decided to live up to, let your life tell...
View ArticleListen Deeply – Desire & Intent
Consciousness and awareness employed deliver blessings from the most unexpected moments. It may have been one of the sweetest things I have ever seen; the look in this little boy’s clear eyes. We were...
View ArticleListen Deeply – A New Confidence
Should you hear a voice telling you to place all your energy externally and to forget about directing any internally, to the inner journey, ignore this voice. It is not your own. I followed up for...
View ArticleListen Deeply – Voice
My work of the last 17 years in particular has progressively blessed me with awareness of the power of my own voice. More recently however, I’ve learned the imperativeness of constant and consistent...
View ArticleListen Deeply – Presence
For years, one simple mantra has continually encouraged me to pay attention in ever more caring and accomplished ways: There is no more present activity than truly listening to another human being. To...
View ArticleListen Deeply – Focus
As a leader it is important to celebrate the collectiveness of each success. Such generous appreciation keeps us energized for the next challenge together. The more mature you become in your leadership...
View ArticleListen Deeply – Love
The more I listen deeply in things, the more grounded I feel in the brand of love given to me. Yes, I see love as a pure gift. We do not earn the right to possess it nor can we demand conformity in...
View ArticleOur Inner Territory – an Accountability to Impact
As we step out onto the path that our design has for us, we only find courage to journey with associated accountability as we hold the creative tension formed by the union of inner and outer charges....
View ArticleOur Inner Territory – The Freedom of Desire & Intent
In our world of work it can become far too easy to walk into our space of supposed expertise, close a metaphorical door, do our own thing, and never be truly observed in this work by our own self or...
View ArticleOur Inner Territory – Standing with A New Confidence
“Perhaps our development of a sustained ability for mental and emotional worry was the very apple into which we gladly bit, defending ourselves consciously against creation while at the same time...
View ArticleOur Inner Territory – The Flow of Voice
It was our lunch break and I noticed Christie sitting alone in the company’s cafeteria. I had been engaged to provide a Desire & Intent workshop for this professional women’s group at their...
View ArticleOur Inner Territory – The Art of Presence
We live a short drive from Mt. Mitchell, NC. So on a recent Saturday we decided to visit this magnificent place. As you approach the summit, the first stop is at an elevation of 6,578 ft. I parked our...
View ArticleOur Inner Territory – A Source for Focus
No doubt, when one-on-one, presence is a critical ingredient in creating a meaningful and productive experience. Such presence also serves you in the company of many. In the one-to-many and many-to-one...
View ArticleOur Inner Territory – A Path for Love
Leading us to build a story together is a leader’s love applied. The story of your reach as a leader cannot be told out in the world until your story has footing in the inner territory. My guess is...
View ArticleThe Impact Encounter
The tenor I’ve been given, from my beginning, is to be with another in the encounter with Impact. A living measure is this encounter, a bright attention to what is unfolding. The measure lives only in...
View ArticleDesire & Intent – The Singularity of Trueness
Driven. Drawn. Delivered. Driven down into desire, at first lightless, intimidating, distorted self is confronted by true self. How did I get here? Who is this? Drawn out toward intent, holding fast,...
View ArticleA New Confidence (to Hear and to Hold)
To listen is a gift, both giver and receiver reaping richness in what is said and heard. In listening, truly hearing, curiosity consumes and what is consumed swells large into one specific question,...
View ArticleA Voice of Your Own
Darkness assumed anything in depth; lightless, afraid with soul though, brighter it grows. For descending into soul is to ascend into glory. What was that sound? From what source was such clarity? A...
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