Category Archives: consciousness

An excellent example of simple living’s rewards

Keeping up with the Jones may become a thing of the past. That is if people like Pico Iyer’s example has anything to do with it. Take a moment and read something good…
Here’s an excerpt:
“The beat of my heart has grown deeper, more active, and yet more peaceful, and it is as if I were [...]

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Conscious Awareness – a workplace example

This is part two from a previous posting.
Let’s review the example.
It’s October 2008. Everyone knows the downturn is coming. It’s just a matter of time. Fear already is beginning to rise in the workplace and rumors of layoffs are heard with increasing frequency. You’re in a staff  meeting with your team and your supervisor says [...]

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A Better World: Let’s do it differently

What does it take to create a better world? If you attended my speech this evening at The Better Living Expo, you got an introduction. This blog post takes what you heard a step deeper, enabling you to open yourself to your own conscious awareness so you can begin creating the world you want. I’m [...]

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Facebook Generation shaping future workplaces

The generation growing up on the internet is going to change the workplaces, I think for the better. The world is going to become a fluid place as a result of tearing down social structures and power dynamics resulting from human behavior that doesn’t serve high performing work teams. Don’t take my word for it, [...]

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On Transitions: If you jump will God catch you? If you leap will the net appear?

[Blogger's note: Those who attended my speech today at George Fox University were directed here to deepen their understanding of what I talked about On Transitions. This is part of the added value I provide audiences and my clients when I deliver a keynote, presentation or event: an opportunity to more deeply discuss what was [...]

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2009: the year of “Why the hell not?”

This is the year to shake the foudations of who and what you think you are; to challenge yourself to swing for the fences in your personal, professional, romantic lives. There’s no better time than now to take a step in the contrary direction, the direction where your dreams are waiting.
Forget about losing weight, stopping [...]

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Let’s shift the ground beneath the cynics, the greedy, the powerful

Obama said it. Now Forbes is saying it: the wost is yet to come. The fact is, we haven’t seen nothing yet when it comes to our economic downturn.
So, why am I optimistic?
One thing is because in situations like these, when what we take for granted fails us, there occurs a window of opportunity where [...]

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When it speaks, listen and you’ll change the world

While much research has been done that concludes intuition is an unreliable source of inspiration and direction, I’m not so sure. In stillness, I find intuition comes like a pack of wild horses, thundering into my consciousness. Sometimes is comes as a tender consort, catching my attention with a whisper behind the thin veil that [...]

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The profundity of you and me

You and me. Seemingly two separate beings. I’m over here in Portland, Oregon and you, presumably are some place else in the world, reading these words. Our physical existence seems to confirm our separation. Indeed, it would seem that every part of our material experience, even our language seems to confirm that you and [...]

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My mind is a roller-coaster I choose not to ride.

Good gracious. It’s lunchtime. This morning I had what we humans sometimes call an emotional roller coaster ride at the office. There I was minding my own business when my mind piped up. It said: “Hey, you there, you haven’t heard from your designer in a while. You should be concerned.”
In case you haven’t been [...]

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