We all want to live lives filled with joy and satisfaction, to be fulfilled and go from triumph to triumph. We recognize that challenges teach us important lessons. We recognize we will be able to look back on these struggles with gratitude. What we really want to is to have already learned the lessons and […]
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Some leadership is like winter; everything is under the surface, hidden by cold layers of ice and snow. Some leadership is like spring; plowing new ground and planting seeds. Some leadership is like summer; tending, watering, helping people grow and produce. Some leadership is like autumn; sparking explosions of color and harvesting rich crops. Autumn is the time of reaping
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We believe, deep inside, that spiritual life only happens in certain places, when we act in certain ways. Some of us know that spiritual life means we must wear special clothes, or think special thoughts. It is accompanied by particular music, associated with specific sights, aromas, and tastes. We may associate spiritual life with sitting in silence or joyful dancing,
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I grew up knowing that I could change the world, that one person could make a difference. It was a time of tremendous potential. I believed people who told me that we were making progress, we were solving problems, the future would be better. The key was understanding and using the right instruments of change
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We spend a lot of energy and time thinking about leadership. We try to understand it, to put it to work for ourselves. We wonder how people become leaders, whether they are born leaders or are made along the way. We identify and evaluate leadership styles, assessing which are the most effective. We analyze the
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Spiritual life is not a pill we take to make us happy. Spiritual life does not always make me feel happy or satisfied. Some of the greatest lessons spiritual life has taught me are lessons of lamentation and grief. Some of the best gifts I have been given come from my own dissatisfactions. For some, spiritual life
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I have been working toward justice for as long as I can remember. I was raised with a clear, strong understanding that justice was about right and wrong. One side was right, the other was wrong. The argument was about proving which was which. I believed in criminal justice, that people who did bad things should
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Leaders want to believe they are making a difference. People who see themselves as leaders believe they are creating good results by doing what leaders do. They plan, they budget, they encourage, they focus their resources. They see themselves as pushing the winds of change, sweeping across the land. As we concentrate on the specific steps we need to
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Jo Piazza is not a nun. She states clearly in If Nuns Ruled the World that she does not see herself as a religious person. She asks good questions and writes insightfully about the ten women she meets on the journey of her book. If Nuns Ruled the World explores the lives of ten nuns and the differences they
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Spiritual life is not designed for speed. We tend to evaluate our lives based on a desire to accumulate as much as we can in the shortest possible time. Whether we focus on resources or relationships, experiences or education, we want to live quickly. We collect adventures, friends, meals; squeezing them into our already overcommitted schedules. We believe that
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