November 13, 2013 | Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
On taking the first step – the one that scares you most It starts with a whisper. A gnawing. Something has to change. The whisper becomes louder. It can no longer be ignored. From first notice to this point may take hours, or decades. I have seen decades in...
November 8, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Healthy and unhealthy obsession in business- and how to tell the difference Obsession occurs when something in the exterior world has more control over you than you have over it. Something seizes you, takes hold of your mind, body, soul, and emotions. It is quite...
October 31, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Breaking the failure/shame cycle on the path to success It happens to all of us. Something doesn’t work out as we hoped, and we feel like a failure. This then spirals down to shame. From shame, we either withdraw and shut down, or tell stories to justify why, or...
October 25, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Decisive, Clarity, Intention – critical for leadership Get clear. Speak. If you are not clear, find someone who can help you get clear. If you don’t have time to do this, at least have the respect for the other party to let them know you are not clear. Be...
October 22, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When to go hard and when to step back – in business, sport, life As a long-distance runner with decades of experience, I have learned, often the hard way, the difference between the times to go hard and bust through thresholds and the times to take a back seat,...
October 21, 2013 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Distinguishing noise from desire. And why desire matters in building business as unusual We live in a noisy world, bombarded by thousands of things and people seeking our attention. Buy this, eat that, do this, be that, go here, stay there, read this, watch this, buy...
