A sense of life purpose promotes physical, mental, and spiritual health. Purpose is fundamental. People who seek meaning beyond themselves are healthier, happier, and live longer. So, it’s vital to...
Communicating Your Story
What’s Your Story To create and to communicate your offer, you must share your story with your key “connectors.” You cannot inspire others unless and until you are inspired yourself....
Unlock the Power of Purpose
A sense of life purpose promotes physical, mental, and spiritual health. People who seek meaning beyond themselves are healthier, happier, and live longer. It’s vital to our well-being that we...
The Heart of Giving
The Heart of Giving: Servant-Leadership and Purposeful Philanthropy chances are high that you wear one-or-more of the following hats: Philanthropic donor, volunteer, non-profit leader, fundraising professional, and/or board trustee. Almost everyone...
Inner Kill. The Art of Dying Without Knowing it.
Inner Kill is not growing. Giving up on yourself. It’s taking the safe way. Always covering yourself instead of taking risks. It’s reacting. Not thinking. It’s giving up control of your...
The Three Stages of Purpose
Your purpose. Your reason for being. Your reason for getting up in the morning. You may not have pondered the first two items much, but most of us have occasionally...
What Are You Up To?
When people seek me out as a coach, they often bring questions that will not let them alone—questions that keep them up at night and interrupt their thoughts during the...
Following the Thread
This poem by William Stafford is a place to return if we feel challenged by the daily grind of life and work. THE WAY IT IS There’s a thread you...
Pack. Repack. Repeat.
It was an ultimate adventure to a realm far away and deep within. Richard was leading a walking safari in Tanzania along the edge of the great Serengeti Plains. Looking...
Back to the Future: Keeping the Fire Alive
There are at least three times in life when we ought to be required to go off on a retreat to sit by a fire and reflect on the question,...
Road Warrior Wisdom
For frequent travelers and their relationships, travel means separation and stress. Some travelers arrive home to find chaos; others discover that life went on just fine in their absence. Here...
What Can Hunter-Gatherers Teach Us About Servant-Leadership?
For most humans living today, it is hard to imagine life without technology. But on the scale of human history, the internet and mobile devices are recent inventions. Until just...