September 5, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Enough already with the BS. Be your word, or don’t speak Several months ago, I had a business meeting with a bright, ambitious guy. The conversation was energetic and engaging. Almost all of my meetings these days have one agenda. To open a conversation and...
August 1, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When silence is no longer an option – a salute to Edward, Malala, Bradley, Julian et al. At some point, the act of staying silent is no longer an option. We have to dare to speak about what has been burning within us. It becomes clear that to not speak will be a...
June 22, 2013 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Bully’s, victims and authorship Almost every human being I know loves acknowledgement, and giving genuine acknowledgement is a wonderful gift. It is the intentionality that is gifted. From your heart to my heart, or my heart to your heart. What about when this...
April 23, 2013 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Contemplations weekly e-news Archives
A Meditation on Silence Out of silence, all things are made manifest. But the stuff of silence is complex. It has many faces. In meditation, we seek to sit in the silence between our thoughts, that place of no-thing-ness. In our ever-busier lives, there is a soul...
April 9, 2013 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Stay in the question. On moving through life’s brick walls and mountains Imagine you are walking down a path towards a goal, very focused, clear on your intent, and all of a sudden, completely unexpectedly, you hit a major speed bump, brick wall or even a...
December 12, 2012 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Shaming and Blaming For years now, whenever I have heard a prank call on the radio, I have changed stations. I hate them. They are not funny; they are about shaming people. Listening to them hurts me. I feel for the person, and I feel my own shame and humiliation at...