“Building Today, Accessible Tomorrow.” My friendship with Paul has been enlightening for my work with leaders in corporate environments. While Paul works on physical environments, he teaches me about empowerment in the emotional and spiritual realm of our spaces. Freedom is essential! For Paul, honesty and trust must always be present for the most positive [...]
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An Empowering Environment – Paul’s Story
Posted in Ch. 7: Love, tagged Brand of Love, Encouragement, Experience, Flow, Freedom, Individual, Passion, Purpose, Story, Trust on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Free in the Story
Posted in Ch. 7: Love, tagged Courage, Experience, Flow, Gift, Path, Purpose, Story, Trust on January 16, 2012 | 13 Comments »
Inside you begin as the seed of trust sprouts, determined in the spirit with each step. The gift of intuitive instinct guides focus, each path individually unique. You move along a purposeful path, blessings of experience strengthen resolve. Resonate voice scripts the scenes of life, a courageous yes to what is true. Enlightened in trust you [...]
The Legacy of Presence
Posted in Ch. 5: Presence, Ch. 7: Love, tagged Ch. 5: Presence, Ch. 7: Love, Experience, Story on October 10, 2011 | 8 Comments »
In her presence, simply no one questioned her purpose. She was, and will always be in our hearts, Kathryn Tucker Windham – Storyteller, Selma, AL … and she told stories; beautiful, rich, true stories. Her stories vividly illustrated the balance she learned from her father and that was experienced in her presence: Listen … Learn … Laugh … [...]
The Building of Confidence – Judie’s Story
Posted in Ch. 7: Love, tagged Ch. 5: Presence, Ch. 6: Focus, Confidence, Friendship on August 12, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Judie’s Confidence Cycle is: Interaction -to- The Business of Planning -to- Deeper Evolution of the Friendship. One day I proposed that her confidence cycle was the very model on which she had built her well-established, successful practice. Judie was more than intrigued. She became delightfully enthralled. Her business model is the requisite blend of strengths when [...]
Working Love
Posted in Ch. 7: Love, tagged Confidence, Desire, Individual, Intention, Purpose, Uniqueness on June 28, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I contemplate the fictitious nature of our work world. -John, Coaching Client It was in our first session where John said this, and I will not pretend to know all that, for him, is behind this observation. However, being taken enough by his statement to immediately write it down, I decided to expand a bit [...]
Why Love?
Posted in Ch. 7: Love, tagged Ch. 1: Impact, Ch. 4: Voice, Ch. 6: Focus, Ch. 7: Love, Present, Story on June 24, 2011 | 9 Comments »
The composition planned for this post suddenly changed when I realized the title had morphed into the question, Why Love? Another influence on the change in my plan was a brief, long overdue visit with a friend; the friend who, several years ago, issued a challenge. The challenge was to prove him wrong in a [...]
Focused Love
Posted in Ch. 7: Love, tagged Brand of Love, Ch. 5: Presence, Ch. 7: Love, Encouragement, Intention, Judgment, Present, Story, Storytelling on June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Getting in state … involves focusing your whole being on your intent to achieve your purpose. This state is vital to the art of the tell because your intention is actually what signals listeners to pay attention to you. -Peter Guber in Tell to Win I trust the loving storyteller. And there is no teller [...]
Audible Love
Posted in Ch. 7: Love, tagged Accountability, Ch. 1: Impact, Ch. 4: Voice, Ch. 7: Love, Order, Purpose, Story on June 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To be accountable for your story is to have an impact in this world. Upon completing his first 30 days in the new assignment in Northern Ireland, Ric sent me what he called random flow of thought. Personally, I found his thoughts rather orderly; so much so that I immediately cross-referenced his thoughts with my [...]
Active Love
Posted in Ch. 7: Love, tagged Brand of Love, Ch. 7: Love, Confidence, Expertise, Freedom, Purpose, Story on May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Maxine is a wonderful spirit. She has a very rare and unique personality profile combining a driving love for human connection with incredible ability to process complex detail. Maxine left me a voice message saying she had a story to tell me about practicing in one of the strategies we scripted into her development story. I [...]
The Flow of Your Love
Posted in Ch. 7: Love, tagged Brand of Love, Narrative, Reach, Resistance, Story on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Running counter to what many have learned in the workplace, it is okay to love what you do and in what you do, love. Internal desire is purpose. External desire is an intended impact; what you intend for this purpose in the world. Desire flows toward desire. When purpose connects with action, focus and courage [...]
