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FEAR: The Struggles, Questions, and Observations that I’ve Made to Overcome
I’ve really been thinking about this concept a lot lately, evaluating and investigating my own life, and my own thoughts, to uncover areas where I’ve been holding myself back.
I found a big one. I found, within my consciousness, major, major fear. A deeply ingrained fear, that in all truthfulness, has been dominating me since [...]
The Force of Life is In the Seed
Like David, I’ve long used The Story of the Seed as the fundamental illustration of Life’s inside-out, unlimited workings. A seed holds infinity within, it’s plainly obvious. And the environment it’s cultivated in, goes a long way toward determining the realization of that infinite potential.
What I want to discuss today is one final [...]
Understanding Authentic Leadership
The reason I throw that word Authentic in there is because there’s likely no concept more misused and misunderstood than the idea of leadership. Someone’s title, or position, no more indicates one’s Authentic Leadership ability than me in my Carson Palmer jersey indicates my NFL quarterbacking ability.
To grasp Authentic Leadership and what it truly [...]
Authentic Leadership: What It Is, What It’s Not
Probably the most misused word in business is leadership. I hear that word thrown around so much, you’d think our world was chock full of great leaders. Obviously that’s not the case (Jim Collins, in Good to Great, discovered only 11, out of 1400+ companies studied, qualified as great. Less than 1%.)
Personally, [...]




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