Where in your life can you create more unity? Here are a few unity-related posts you may have missed.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“Beliefs divide us, values unite us.”
“When you throw dirt at people, you’re not doing a thing but losing ground.”
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Looking again and again at your everyday life is an interesting exercise. How much has it changed over the past year? Where has it gotten worse, stayed about the same, or improved? Where are you discovering lumps of coal, or finding diamonds?
Searching more carefully and deeply for the hidden treasures beyond our current outer and inner horizons is accessible to everyone. With the many challenges facing us over the past fifteen months, some have actually transformed their lives.
Just as an able sailor heads out to sea rather than remaining in the harbors of the past or perceived safety, we can all benefit from venturing beyond our current view of things.
How and in what ways can and will you lead your own search party to discover even more of the hidden treasures life has to offer?
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When you examine your humanness, what do you notice? Look again at your first answer and keep digging through your crust, your mantle, your outer core, and your inner core.
Where have you only glimpsed the precious resources within? Where are there new sources of heat, pressure, and magnetism within, waiting to be captured or released?
How would you rate yourself in relationship to your IQ and EQ? Instead of the old paradigms of intelligence, let’s simply determine our capacity to live better by embracing all aspects described in today’s quote.
Examine a few of the significant choices you have made this past year. How can the further development of your head, heart, and gut intelligence support you in making even wiser choices today and in the future?
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In her important book, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson looks at the concept of the caste system and how it influences and shapes our lives and our nation.
Through vivid and specific examples and tragic stories from Nazi Germany, India, slavery, and the persecution of indigenous people in America, she brings light to the insidious undertow of caste and how it is experienced in both small and dramatic ways each day.
Where and how do you observe the belittling of others in your various communities? What words can you speak and what actions will you take to do far more be-bigging?
Consider reading this Oprah’s Book Club pick, and explore its importance and urgency with your family, friends, and colleagues.
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On any give weekday it is possible for thousands of people to be influenced by this blog via email, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.
For the past ten years I have attempted to share daily nuggets of wisdom to influence many people with thought-provoking and/or motivational quotes, a coaching commentary, and an exercise to dig deeper and apply these ideas.
With many of us overwhelmed by far too much information from far too many sources, my efforts to have people invest five to ten minutes per week are not always successful.
During the same five days, four to six individuals invest an hour to engage me in a variety of specific ideas and approaches through one-on-one coaching, to impact and enhance aspects of their personal or professional lives.
What impact are you attempting to have with people in your various communities?
Where are specific — rather than broad — ideas the way to go to have the level of influence you intend?
How trusting are you? How trust-worthy are you? Here are a few trust-related posts you may have missed.
“What is the cost of not doing what you say?”
“You own an army if you know how to win people’s trust and support.”
“Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.”
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How much time do you spend in your efforts to change others in your life? Consider your specific efforts with family members, friends, and professional colleagues. What is this process like, and how have these folks responded to your attempts to right their wrongs and see/do things your way?
Instead of putting all this effort into changing others, consider redirecting these energies into your own developmental pursuits to change yourself. Maybe your example of change and improvement will cause a positive ripple of change within others in your communities… or maybe not.
In what areas will you stop your efforts to change others in your life?
How and where can you then double down on your own efforts to change yourself for the better?
Abraham Lincoln, February 1865. Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress
Honest Abe, The Rail-Splitter, and The Great Emancipator were three nicknames given to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States.
He is best known for his efforts to preserve the Union during the Civil War, and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people.
Unknown to many, Lincoln fought clinical depression all of his life, and if he were alive today, his condition would most likely be treated as a “character issue” and a finite political liability. Many believe that his own internal battle with many personal and political strains gave him the extraordinary character and will to accomplish all that he did.
Where and how does laughter and a sense of humor help you navigate your own fearful strains and rough seas of life?
How, like Lincoln, can you bring more of this essential resource into your own life, to help you achieve your own fullest potential?
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How much idleness have you embraced over the past 15 months? Where did you — perhaps through no fault of your own — have your life turned upside down, stopping many of the professional and personal activities that kept you progressing forward?
Where have you observed the impact of unemployment, health challenges, and simply our need to be physically distant, as thieves who seem to keep stealing our todays and tomorrows?
Where and how have you rebounded into significant action in your personal and professional pursuits? How can you keep out the thieves of excessive idleness and low effort to never misuse a single moment of your precious life?
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John Lennon’s “Imagine” is one of his best written and most powerful songs. Consider and contemplate the lyrics relative to today’s quote:
Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try / No hell below us / Above us, only sky / Imagine all the people / Livin’ for today…
Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion, too / Imagine all the people / Livin’ life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one / I hope someday you’ll join us / And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions / I wonder if you can / No need for greed or hunger / A brotherhood of man / Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one / I hope someday you’ll join us / And the world will live as one.
What peaceful thoughts and actions can and will you bring into your world today? How can and will you influence others in your communities to join us so the world will live as one. CLICK HERE to see the video and hear the song.