Category: Balance

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What are Your Centering Phrases?

Centering phrases are anything that speaks to us, calming words we use to call forth our best selves in times of need

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Swallowed Any Hand Grenades Lately?

Life is complex. While there is much truth in the adage, “feelings buried alive never die” there is also a place for

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Take Vitamin T Every Day

Vitamin T is TRUST, and trust is the foundation of every human relationship. While trust can be created in dramatic moments, most

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To Truly Commit, You Must De-Commit

We are kept from our highest goals by a clearer, easier path to lesser goals. To do great things, we don’t so

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Does Time Own You? Or Do You Control Time?

“There are two fundamental ways to approach time: Either it’s something outside of you that you cannot control, or it’s something within

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Thin Places, Nature, and the Restorative Peace of Contemplation

The ancient Celtics believed in ‘thin places’, special spiritual locations where earth and heaven grew close, where it was possible or at

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Purposeful Followership

Purposeful followership is a value-driven choice to support a leader, team, or mission, a conscious choice to support worthwhile goals. The concept

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Stress is not an event…

Stress is not an event; it is a learned reaction to an event. This is my mantra and while not a silver

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Followership is as Important as Leadership

Great followers and great leaders go hand in hand. The concept that a leader has sole responsibility for the success of their

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This Garment Called Life

It has been said that we are not so much physical beings having a spiritual experience as we are spiritual beings having

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Safety Has a Price

Let me begin by saying balance (Scott Peck’s 4th Tool of Discipline from ‘The Road Less Traveled’) applies here. I’ve chosen safety