From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Here’s another example on a much smaller scale. “Jim,” a vendor in New York City, set up shop and sold donuts and coffee to passersby as they went in and out of their office buildings. During the breakfast and
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From “The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts” by Jeff Crosby Several years ago, on one such trip I read a book by Harvard Business School professor Bill George and Peter Sims of the Stanford Graduate School of Business titled Discover Your True North – an appropriate book to
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From “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” by Luke Burgis Scapegoats are chosen through a mimetic process of judgment, not a rational one. Consider the ancient practice of stoning: a group of people throws stones at someone until they die from blunt trauma. It was the official form of capital punishment in
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From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer Business consultant Martin Lindstrom estimates that 84 percent of all businesses started from a random event. Fortune 500 companies like Starbucks and Home Depot and products such as Velcro, Viagra, Band-Aids, and Post-It Notes emerged
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From “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation” by Parker J. Palmer A fourth shadow within and among us is fear, especially our fear of the natural chaos of life. Many of us – parents and teachers and CEOs – are deeply devoted to eliminating all remnants of chaos from the world.
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From “Trust the Whisper: How Answering Quiet Callings Inspires Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary Grace“ by Kathy Izard How could this woman know exactly the words I needed to hear? I hadn’t planned to start speaking any more than I had planned to house the homeless, but it seemed that both were inevitable. “The most important
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From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do that, because what the world needs is more people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman My friend Harriet and I trudge across the clay
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From “Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life” by Henri Nouwen with Michael J. Christensen and Rebecca J. Laird Each of us has a mission in life. Jesus prays to his Father for his followers, saying, “As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world” (John 17:18 NRSV).
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