Have you ever failed? Fantastic for you! My guess is that you learned more from one failure than 100 easy moments in your life. (Not that we don’t love the easy moments too.) My challenge to you today is to look at the “failures” in your life in a different way. What happens after you slip up? What did you do next?
It was Valentine’s Day and we were planning to go to dinner to “celebrate”. The funny thing is that we had hardly spoken in months… he came in and out of the condo as his tours ended and began, and I worked from home… we lived mostly apart and not talking to each other at all… I got crystal clear that out of love and for the sake of our relationship we could not do it this way any longer. No matter what, we had to stop this. I stood up and walked to him and said “Look, this is crazy. We can do this the hard way or we could try to make it easy.” He paused what he was doing and looked up at me with a quizzical look on his face. I continued, “What if we have an Anti Valentine’s Day dinner…
Don’t take anything personally
If you plan on taking things personally, you might as well not leave your house in the morning because there are millions and zillions of people in the world and they all have personal opinions and experiences they will project onto you. Shakespear says that “All the world’s a stage…” and [...]
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These times are going to make the best of all of us and you, by losing your job, have entered the accelerated program. Congratulations! You have a rich opportunity to learn more about you are and how creative, resourceful and amazing you are.
This is a great chance [...]
One of my team mates wrote me yesterday and shared that she had been crying throughout the day for no apparent reason. I wrote back and suggested that there may be some “loss” trying to process itself and that it may be important to be gentle and just let it find its way out, [...]
If we were ever needed as Radical Leaders, if radical principles of responsibility and integrity were ever needed, now is the time. How do we have IMPACT NOW?
Radical means rooted, grounded, a return to fundamental, foundational basic principles; extreme and drastic. This is what’s required NOW! That we return to our origin, remember who we [...]
