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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Story’
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 »
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 [...]
The Impact of Your Love
Posted in Ch. 7: Love, tagged Brand, Ch. 1: Impact, Ch. 7: Love, Confidence, Judgment, Story on May 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Far too often I meet an individual who – whether they confess openly or not – believes they must be someone else to be a good leader. This is sad. It breaks my heart. We are a proud, free people in this society. Why then do we allow this form of individual bondage to exist [...]
Story – The Gift of Focus
Posted in Ch. 6: Focus, tagged Authenticity, Busyness, Ch. 6: Focus, Confidence, Story on May 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A story is not a distraction in the scuffle of a busy 21st Century. A story is evidence of meaningful purpose both understood and applied. Purpose is our portal to focus. The act of telling a story for direction can launch us on a collective journey. To keep us safe and consistent as we travel, [...]
A Manuscript of Values
Posted in Ch. 3: A New Confidence, tagged Authenticity, Conscious, Experience, Story, Values on October 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »
It is indeed a challenge to embrace an experience for its lasting treasure and let the rest go. If one is not consciously locked on one’s values, it may be near impossible. It is human nature to seek in each experience an answer to the question, “What does this mean to me?” When the answer [...]
The Power of Experience
Posted in Ch. 3: A New Confidence, tagged Authenticity, Ch. 1: Impact, Experience, Individual, Learning, Story on October 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Part of living in A New Security is practicing a deep respect for the power of experience. It is one experience folding in on the other that authors the unfolding story that is our individual, unique life. Marlo Morgan, in her book Mutuant Message Down Under, tells the story of her walkabout with the Real [...]
The Frequency of Your Desire
Posted in Ch. 2: Desire & Intent, tagged Authenticity, Desire, Purpose, Story on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is a sad truth that many will never discover the message of desire. They will remain in the control of confusion brought on by the mooring of desire in the harbor of the unimportant. Allowing 21st Century busyness to drown out the song of your desire is an addiction that is only out for [...]
Impact; and the Love of Story
Posted in Ch. 1: Impact, tagged Authenticity, Confidence, Story, Strengths on July 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »
The measure of our continuing individuality in any work is the refusal to be swallowed by our goals, our ambitions, or our company no matter how marvelous they may be. -David Whyte in Crossing the Unknown Sea It is just past mid-year, and I only now feel I have come to the preparation work intended for [...]
Anticipated Impact
Posted in Ch. 1: Impact, tagged Ch. 2: Desire & Intent, Commitment, Conscious, Story, Sustainability on June 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
There is no impact without action; and there is only value in actions formed in authentic anticipation. Impact is the living measure – a story unfolding – of the sustainable reach of your leadership. What you do, commitment by successive commitment, writes the story of your reach in this world. Your reach is sustained through [...]
