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The Patient Leader
Projects almost never go the way I suspect that they will. They seem to take longer or have more obstacles than I can plan for. As some of you know, I have created a project called The Aconcagua Man Project. This project has required great patience from me. The preparation, planning, time, resources, obstacles, and disappointments have tempered me to my core. This 9 month leadership project is a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual kick ass journey that culminates in our summiting the highest mountain in the world outside of Asia. The Mighty Mountain of Aconcagua will require me taking … 
Being There
Have you ever heard a song that touched you so deeply that you had a chill go up your spine? Have you seen a sunset lately that made your eyes moist with loving tears? Have you ever watched a movie that was so amazing that you text your best friend before the credits have rolled? I call those inspired moments and God, how I love those moments. I am blessed to have many of those moments in my life. I have those more and more and more…as I live more closely to my own sense of Self. There are actually …
Do Be Do Be Do…
When he sings I can see the Light in his eyes. His smile beams from here to the moon. He loves to sing. His songs are good. They are really good. Why is he not a super star like Jack Johnson or Mark Knopfler? It’s really clear that he is just as good as and maybe even better than some famous song writers. Have you ever heard the phrase “Do what you love”? I hear it all the time. As a professional Life and Leadership coach I have many people hire me to find out what they love to do. …
Boxing Your Own Shadow
She makes it so hard on herself. I can see it clearly. Her life is good and sure there are things to adjust, to fine tune, to increase. That’s partly what life is about. Part of Life Leadership is course correcting to what we want. My friend does not really want to hear that. I invite her to get present and really hear what she is saying. Yet again, a side step; she cant receive the acknowledgment. She is beyond being acknowledged because she is on the defensive and ready to fight at a moments notice. The problem is she …
A Lesson That Changed My Life
When the teacher called out my name, I just sat there stunned. I could not believe what I was hearing. I was the winner of a national writing contest. Writing in those days was easy and natural. I was completely detached from winning anything because I don’t remember the teacher ever saying anything about a contest. I just did what I was asked to do, which was to write an essay that had to do with the future of the world. I was in the third grade. The assignment was purely fun and creative. It was a …
It takes guts to follow your gut
He lied to me. Basically, he told me I would “never” lead a normal life if I did not get the surgery. This was nearly 20 years ago and it seems as present as early morning today. I was told that he was one of the top five surgeons in the entire world. I respected him. The accident had occurred a few weeks earlier and to this day nobody really knows why it happened. I had been in the intensive care unit for eight days and the blood clot could have traveled to a lung. It was nearly …
How to be a yodel YOU?
He cried. He did not cry from sadness, he cried out loud from pure joy. His cry pierced through the mountain air with instrumental perfection. Most of us have been taught not to cry for any reason. At seventy five years young he chose to abandon the rules and he sang aloud with all his might. I felt myself chuckle deep down inside. He looked up slope at me and asked? “Have you ever just been so happy you cannot contain it?” I laughed out loud. Yes, I have; I said. Then, I leaned back and let it rip. …
It takes a little crap to grow a garden
His eyes got a little moist when I asked him the question at lunch last week. What’s the one thing you have learned from this whole experience? He already knew the answer, as if he had already given it great thought. He said: “I have learned how much I love my wife” and “how committed I am to her” and he continued with deep and sensitive conviction, “I love my Life.” He had made a point of being with her in as many doctors appointments as possible. There is no ego in that. That comes from deep caring. …
How to get freedom in a minute and a half
She let go. She fell deeper and faster than ever before. It was scary at first. There is always a fear in letting go and then there is the resulting freedom of it. The feeling of inspiration and enthusiasm was pervasive. She was free again. I watched it happen. I think she had been hanging on for awhile. I don’t know exactly what she was hanging onto? I know we all hang onto things that aren’t always good for us. I know I have done it. Perhaps as she let go – so did the rest of the group. …
How does anger make me more loving?
Anger can be a good thing. Yes, anger if used appropriately can be healing. We are afraid of anger in our society. It makes us uncomfortable and we tend to do everything we can to avoid it. Now, for clarity and to avoid lots of “angry” email – I am not talking about rage with a hunting knife kind of anger. I am talking about stuffed fear. I am talking about the emotion that steals our creativity and freedom. Do you people that hold back their anger to avoid how they really feel when they are ticked off? This …
