There are people who always have an angle, or several. They are good at seeing around corners, at anticipating how situations will turn out. They may be good at reading people, or at thinking a few steps ahead. They understand where the pressure points will be, and how hard to push them. There are people who approach each […]
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There are times when we just do not feel like being leaders. We do not want the responsibility. We are too tired or overstressed, discouraged or frustrated. We are not all that interested in bringing out the best in other people. Being a leader is too much work, too much bother. We want to stick
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For as long as I can remember I have been told being right is better than being wrong. We are taught being right is essential to a happy life. In school, at home, in spiritual life, being right is important. Life is about finding right answers and sharing them with other people. Our lives will be
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Everyone wants to be healthy. Even when we might appreciate the extra rest and the attention, no one wants to get sick. We want healthy bodies and healthy minds, healthy emotions and healthy finances. We have apps to monitor ourselves and tell us how healthy we are. Many of us work hard to develop good habits
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Spiritual life is a fire burning within us and in the world around us. It is energy which brightens our darkness and heats our cold loneliness. There are times when spiritual life is sparked in new ways, and times when may be reduced to embers. Spiritual life can be a torch to light our path or leave
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Nothing slows us down like an obstacle. We seem to assume our path will be smooth and unrestricted when we are doing a good job. We get into a zone, build momentum, and believe we can settle into cruise control. When things are working for us, everything fits together. There are no bumps in the road.
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Some people believe leadership is about driving people to see how far they can go. We sometimes assume leadership is on the cutting edge, pushing the boundaries of the envelope. We see leadership moving us in a straight line upward, outward, forward. We expect leaders to motivate us toward the frontier, boldly going where no one
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Spiritual life is more than we expect, more than we imagine, more than we need, more than we might want. We think we have spiritual life figured out, we can grasp and understand it. We believe if we are nice and polite then spiritual life will become stronger in us. We know what we need to do to
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Nice to meet you, Greg. Did I hear you say you are a strategic monk? Yes, I am the strategic monk. I do not think there are many others. How long have you been a strategic monk? My strategic senses developed pretty early, while the monastic in me has been getting stronger lately. Well, what does a strategic
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Like the tallest skyscrapers, leadership is built in stories. Each next act of leadership we take depends on the stories underneath it. Our stories are important because we believe what they say about who we are. Three stories in particular are essential to the foundation of our leadership. The Story of Why Your leadership story of why is
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