Making a Difference While Making a Living

Cultivating Brilliance

As I understand it, diamonds are the result of coal combined with plants, fungi, and bacteria under extreme pressure over a really long time. And the brilliant multi-faceted gems we know as diamonds are the result of a refined process of cutting and polishing.
As I reflect on the process of launching Working for Good [...]

June 7, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

Deepening

When I opened my Facebook page Monday and read “What’s on your mind?” my response was “Deepening.” Here’s why.
The weekend of March 12th I facilitated a Working for Good workshop at Mii Amo Spa in Sedona, Arizona. The journey through the workshop was profound and catalytic, for the participants, my collaborator, and me, and its [...]

March 25, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Principles, Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

Coherence

At the recommendation of my general physician during my annual physical, I recently purchased a portable emWave device from the Institute of HeartMath as a tool to reduce stress and increase heart wave coherence and overall health. In this context, coherence is the “highly efficient physiological state in which the nervous system, cardiovascular, hormonal, and [...]

February 22, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Principles, Working for Good  No Comments

Take Care of Yourself

Boy, this is a big issue. I’ve always know it to be so, but since I started writing this piece a couple weeks ago it’s significance has become even more apparent.
People frequently ask me how I do all that I do and how I look and act so young. I suppose I have a pretty [...]

February 20, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

Gestation

This is my first blog post in over ten days, after posting twice a week since April 2009, with a little break over the holidays. Interestingly (at least to me) I wrote or started a few pieces since my last post - Restoration – on February 1st.
For some reason, I decided not to post, but [...]

February 13, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

Foundations

Yesterday the Working for Good founding team met to finalize our formal organizational process, discuss our business development strategy, review current project, and break bread together (we’re really good at that!).
Consistent with the rich organic process by which we have come together, it was so enjoyable and productive, no one wanted to leave when it [...]

January 20, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Working for Good  No Comments

Reflections on the Week of 1.10.10

The second full week of 2010 was quite extraordinary. If I try to characterize it in a word or two some of those that come up for me are movement, signs, early fruit, acceleration, foundations, and can’t forget full and fulfilling!
There was so much energy flowing in and around me that I found myself waking [...]

January 17, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

Ten Reasons to be Working for Good

Many of us aspire and dedicate ourselves to Working for Good – making the world a better place through our work. The essence of Working for Good is a calling, a sense of passion and purpose that stirs us to action from deep inside. It is based on the belief that what we do matters, [...]

January 8, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

From Fear to Love: The Heart of the New Business Paradigm

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
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January 2, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Reflections, Working for Good  No Comments

Just Say “Yes!”

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the [...]

December 8, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Principles, Working for Good  No Comments