Entries tagged as ‘discovery’
“…INSIST THAT SELF-KNOWLEDGE IS THE NECESSARY PRECURSOR TO EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP OF ALL FLAVORS. SELF-KNOWLEDGE IS NOT SELF-INDULGENCE. SELF-KNOWLEDGE, ACCUMULATION THEREOF, IS THE MOST POTENT MEDICINE YOU WILL EVER TAKE.” Tom Peters
Self-knowledge may be the most important discovery you can make. Not only is self-knowledge a necessary component of leadership, it is a necessary component of followership and a necessary component of self-leadership.
What are you doing today that enhances your knowledge of your self?
Categories: Goal seeking · Leadership · coach
Tagged: discovery, followership, future, knowledge, medicine, self, self-leadership, Tom Peters
Seasons of the year tend to be what most people think about when they think of, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, and those are the seasons. We also have seasons in our life, discovery, accomplishment, significance, and sharing. We can have seasons in a single day, awakening, work, relaxation and sleep.
We are now in the autumn season with respect to how the earth precesses around sun. In life autumn is the season where many reflect on years of work, perhaps in a career only to realize that all that work wasn’t so meaningful. Maybe there is a feeling of restlessness which fuels a desire to do something meaningful during the next few years. Is there a gap in your life where you may be feeling like all life has been is work and without significance? What would make your life significant?
Categories: Encouragement · Inspiration · coach
Tagged: accomplishment, aspen, awakening, discovery, photograph, relaxation, seasons, sharing, significance, sleep, work
“A man’s life is interesting primarily when he had failed, for it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself.” — Georges Clemenceau
This brief piece of text is excerpted from “Learning as a way of being” by Peter Vaill, the quoted section is part of another book written by Chittister called “Wisdom distilled from the Daily”, pg. 24, The Rule of St. Benedict,
“Benedict teaches life is a learning process. Western culture and its emphasis on academic degrees, however, has almost smothered this truth. We have made the words ‘graduation’ and ‘education’ almost synonymous. We measure achievement in academic credits. We discount experience, depth, and failure. We believe in action and results and products and profits and youth, so we come to regard the elderly as essentially useless.
But in the end, all of that kind of achievement is nothing but a spiritual wasteland if along the way we have not attached ourselves to the discovery of truth, the cultivation of beauty, and the recognition of the real learnings in life.”
If you believe that things are passing you by perhaps it is time to slow down and reflect on the beauty that surrounds you. Action, results, products and profits are seen as the currency of value when in reality the currency is truth, beauty and joy. Which do you pursue with the most fervor?
Value significance – value your significance in a turbulent world.
Categories: Encouragement · Inspiration
Tagged: beauty, discovery, education, joy, peace, significance, turbulence, Wisdom, youth
appreciative – feeling or expressive of gratitude; “was appreciative of his efforts”; “an appreciative word”
in·quir·y
1. The act of inquiring.
2. A question; a query.
3. A close examination of a matter in a search for information or truth.
One of the definitions of Appreciative Inquiry is search for the best in people. That definition is pretty powerful don’t you think. Why would we want to search for the best in people?
The AI process is designed to be one of creative expression, something that many people rarely experience. All too often people are told what to think, how to think and what to think. AI really turns the current reality upside-down and allows people to design solutions from a point of view that is not critical but rather creative.
The AI model is based on four concepts, discovery, dream, design, and destiny.
Next time we will talk about the discovery phase and how that is used.
Categories: Appreciative Inquiry
Tagged: Appreciative Inquiry, design, destiny, discovery, dream
William James wrote, ‘The greatest discovery of my generation is that
human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes
of mind.’
What does that mean to you? How do you alter your attitudes? What does it take to change an attitude?
It takes conscious effort to change an attitude. It takes a heaping spoonful of humility to change a bad attitude into a good attitude.
What is your attitude like today? What can you do to change it?
Categories: Attitude
Tagged: Attitude, discovery
