I’m going to a Meet Up event this evening for people who like to have philosophical discussions about deep topics. Tonight’s topic is humor. What makes us laugh? What’s funny? Why do we experience humor as human beings? What purpose does it serve? It’s got me thinking about the balance of my own life. For years, the bulk of my professional career has been about creating laughter and astonishment. More recently, I’ve been crafting a …
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the qualities of leadership lately. Since I teach principles that pertain to personal transformation, I’m always considering the bridge to business. Yes, I can apply the principles I teach to sales mastery, goal setting, peak performance and stress reduction. But how do these principles impact organizations as a whole? Well, first through example. An organization without a self-realized leader is doomed to failure no matter how well intentioned the …
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I just saw the movie Invictus with Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. The former plays Nelson Mandela who, upon returning to power after 26 years in prison, seeks to unite a fragmented population and recreate South Africa as a nation of pride and possibility. He inspires the national Rugby team captain to embrace the possibility of winning the world cup; a seemingly impossible task for a third rate team lacking the support of most of …
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I just spent a weekend assisting at the Montreal Forum. For those of you unfamiliar, the Landmark Forum is, in my experience, the most powerful personal transformation program available. In just three days, I saw dozens of people completely change their lives; reconnect with estranged loved ones, drop fear, judgment, bitterness and resignation, and rejoin the human race in ways that exploded with compassion and joy and possibility. One of the discussions during the Forum …
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I seldom post mid-week, but it’s a snowy day and all my plans have been postponed. Plus it suddenly occurred to me that this is the perfect place to work out the language I use to express what I do. You can probably relate to this. Sometimes, I’ll get a great idea that I’m sure will be useful in a future context; a speech, a book, a training, etc. But, I don’t know where to …
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