The Purpose of Life is the Life of Purpose
Your life is no accident. You are here for a purpose, some central mission that has the potential to make you extraordinary. Some main aim that – once focused on – breaks all chains that might have previously bound you. Your challenge is to discover that call. (Hint: it generally exists right where you are). […]
Be the Humblest Person in Every Room
Humbleness is a sign of bigness – never weakness. Living the noble virtues of honesty, generosity, justice, understanding, compassion, forgiveness and civility never goes out of style. Decency is always hip. And showing the best of your humanity is definitely cool. No matter what industry you work in and what nation you live in, good […]
How to Play the Alternate Game of Leadership
Anyone can be aggressive because often aggression comes from insecurity and beneath insecurity is fear. True leaders and genuine heroes are hope-bringers. They make people feel bigger, never smaller, in their presence. They have a trained gift to inspire and activate other humans to own gifts they didn’t know they had while achieving feats they […]
How to Use Life’s Hard Seasons as Fuel for Your Growth
Some seasons will bring misfortune and some times will be hard. In the quiet times of my own life’s largest heartbreaks, I retreated from the world [like a wounded animal retreats to the woods for healing]. And I remained in the wilderness—befriending the pain and allowing it to purify me as much as possible. – […]
Ask Yourself These 3 Questions [to x25 Your Energy]
The people, places and pursuits that fuel your joy are not mere accidents. Each of us has a wise GPS encoded within us. And that which brings us feelings of awe and wonder are precisely where our greatest self wants us to be. Release the chattering messaging of your intellect and trust the powerful whispers […]
Great Poetry Terrifies the Herd
Impact belongs to the misfits. The very symptom of a heroic vision is to terrify the flock and to threaten card-carrying members of the cult of mediocrity. …If you’re not being laughed at a lot, you’re probably not creating very much. …If you’re not attracting criticism, condemnation and chattering cynicism, likely you’re not producing outright […]
Build Your Relationship with Your Finest Self to x100 Your Impact
Your relationship with others will never rise higher than the relationship with yourself. Often, we are our greatest abusers. And when we increase the caring of our selves, we begin to sense the secret glory that rests at our base. And come to know all that we truly are. As you love yourself more, you’ll […]
The Future vs. Past Mentality
I’d run to the end of the Earth to protect the insight that though your past may have been harsh, your future can be brilliant. Every so-called "mistake’ is actually a rich source of learning. An opportunity to build more awareness and understanding and gain precious experience. Experience that will help us do, feel and be […]
The Anti-Majority Philosophy for Higher Possibility
Following the crowd and behaving as the mass of humanity does will not get you into the rare-air that very few know. Legendary requires one to become a member of the anti-majority. Especially during these deeply uncertain times you and I find ourselves in. So what I pray you’ll do is to begin to install […]
The Game of Leadership is Helpfulness
To lead is to serve. Leadership has nothing to do with the title on your business card or the size of your office. Leadership is not about how much money you make or the clothes you wear. Leadership is a philosophy. It’s an attitude. It’s a state of mind. And it’s available to each one […]