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The Elegance Principle: How to create miracles in your business
It’s June, and here in the Pacific Northwest, summer’s waving her golden arms joyously from across the horizon. There’s a radiance that illuminates this part of the world as the days grow longer and light returns in all her splendor. The ruffling leaves of the maple...
Be Proud of Who You Are
We cannot simply replicate traditional spiritual practices and expect them to work -- not only because they may not be ours to employ, through cultural or ancestral inheritance, but also because their forms were created in response to the world as it once was, and...
Bridge Over Troubled Waters
A few years ago, I signed up for a memoir writing class, intending to finish a draft of the manuscript that had been languishing on my hard-drive for several years. The first class consisted of a series of writing prompts: Write about your favorite teddy bear; your...
Your Guide to Creating Your Next Transformational Program
My students often ask: How do you create powerful containers in which transformation happens with such miraculous ease? Creating and holding a container for transformation begins with the soul work of building a life and business whose hallmarks are coherency,...
Creative Power & The Art of Losing
Over the past three months, I've dropped thirty pounds of excess weight. And the weight continues to drop steadily, at the rate of one or two pounds each week. This did not happen by dieting (which I don’t believe in) or vigorous exercise (I walk every day, but at a...
How To Choose Right Livelihood
On a morning walk along the beach near my home, I watched an eagle hurtle down to the water, talons extended, wings braking its descent with aileron-like precision. I couldn’t see its target, but it skidded against the waves, missed whatever it was after, flapped its...
On Mentorship
All week, I've been reviewing applications from folks who want to work with me in a mentoring partnership this year. I've been mentoring creative, visionary leaders for several decades now -- it's one of the primary ways in which I serve my community and my world....
On Healing
I've been thinking about healing -- its nature and function; its relationship to our lives and the life of our world; how it unfolds; what its purpose is, and more. Here are some thoughts that emerged from my brief, initial exploration --in no particular order....
Nourishing the Body of Imagination
In the To Be Soul, Do Soul book club, we're experimenting with creative practices to help us explore different aspects of human (and non-human) experience. I'm sharing one of our experiments here, so you can play along if you wish. There are certain principles that...
Curiouser & Curiouser — A Book is Born!
Curiosity expresses itself in many shapes and forms. There’s the kind that alights on your shoulder like a bright-eyed magpie, and urges you across muddy pathways, quaking swamps, burbling streams and ancient forests in search of clues to the treasure you seek. That...
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