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What limits most of us has nothing to do with our lacking skills or intelligence. Nor does it have anything to do with being wrong or sick. What limits most of us is that we are living our lives as... Continue reading

Posted Oct 23, 2020 at Ideals in Motion

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Alone or All One?

I’m unique…as is everyone and everything who has ever been in existence. The difficulty being unique presents is that, literally, no one can ever truly know me. They may try...and if I'm in a "significant" relationship, I may actually believe... Continue reading

Posted Sep 13, 2020 at Ideals in Motion

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The Hidden Power of Mindset

It started with difficulty sleeping because of a simple backache that wouldn’t go away. A little more than four years later, she was dead and my entire world had been turned upside down and inside out. “She” was my wife... Continue reading

Posted Jun 12, 2020 at Ideals in Motion

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Don't Settle....

Is good enough really good enough? It’s your choice and what you choose is who you become. The Stoics believed that a beautiful life was the result of beautiful decisions. They also believed that the only way to freedom, to... Continue reading

Posted Jan 3, 2020 at Ideals in Motion

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Facing Reality

Whenever we do not love, we are at that moment unconscious. If we consistently choose to defend our imagined state of separateness, then, spiritually speaking, we are unconscious, or in religious language “in sin.” Continue reading

Posted Sep 13, 2019 at Ideals in Motion

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Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett: Heather Mason, CEO and Founder of Caspian Agency

Wow...do I have a fascinating and powerful interview for you in this most recent episode of Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett (https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/soulofbusiness)! Join me as I speak with Heather Mason, CEO and Founder of the amazing Caspian Agency. Her... Continue reading

Posted Mar 7, 2019 at Ideals in Motion

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The Co-Creative Nature of Leadership

“When we look deeply into a sheet of paper, we see that it’s full of everything in the cosmos: the sunshine, the trees, the clouds, the earth, the minerals, everything—except for one thing. It’s empty of one thing only: a... Continue reading

Posted Feb 11, 2019 at Ideals in Motion

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Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett - Episode 4

What if I told you that the fashion industry is the second most polluting industry in the world? And, what if I told you there is a fashion company that is profitably changing this daily? Join me on "Soul of... Continue reading

Posted Jan 8, 2019 at Ideals in Motion

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As it Is Within So It Is Without...

In my meditation today I focused on the following offering from Fr. Richard Rohr. It fully captures the perennial philosophy as the constant thread weaving wisdom and what we call reality together into the tapestry of our lives. "Jesus clearly... Continue reading

Posted Jan 2, 2019 at Ideals in Motion

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Habit Interuptus...

We're all familiar with the adage "practice makes perfect." In fact practice doesn't make perfect. Practice makes habits! When I consider the ideals of my life I look at the ideals I have for me as a person, my career,... Continue reading

Posted Dec 31, 2018 at Ideals in Motion

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The Source of Action

Part of my morning ritual includes reading a daily meditation that is offered each morning by Fr. Richard Rohr, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation. Today's meditation is very much in alignment with my work with Compassionate Capitalism... Continue reading

Posted Dec 16, 2018 at Ideals in Motion

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Join me on this inaugural episode of the Soul of...

Join me on this inaugural episode of the Soul of Business podcast. I sit with Doland White, CEO of Rapid Crush, a digital sales and marketing services firm with over a century of combined marketing & business management expertise. Their... Continue reading

Posted Nov 26, 2018 at Ideals in Motion

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Glyphosate Herbicide Will Cause Half Of All Children To Have Autism By 2025

MIT researcher: Glyphosate herbicide will cause half of all children to have autism by 2025 Why? Evidence points to glyphosate toxicity from the overuse of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide on our food. For over three decades, Stephanie Seneff, PhD, has researched... Continue reading

Posted Sep 20, 2018 at Ideals in Motion

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I Am....Consciousness

I AM the believer limited by my beliefs, the knower defined by the known. The world is my conditioned consciousness objectified. That which I feel and believe to be true of myself is now projected in space as my world.... Continue reading

Posted Jul 20, 2018 at Ideals in Motion

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It's ALL About Relationship

I have long said that the success of any organization, whether it’s a family, a society, or a business, is going to be predicated on how functionally successful the relationships that comprise the organization actually are. Join me as I... Continue reading

Posted Jul 13, 2018 at Ideals in Motion

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Avoiding Perfection

“Done is better than perfect.” ~ Anne Mollegen Smith As a manager, one of the more typical causes of problems encountered is the all too common human desire to be perfect or to perform perfectly. Defaulting to this desire to... Continue reading

Posted May 26, 2018 at Ideals in Motion

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Remembering the Future

“Imagination is the only weapon against reality.” ~ Lewis Carroll “The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.” ~ Carl Jung You can’t realize your dreams by remembering where you came from. Yet, this is what... Continue reading

Posted Jan 3, 2018 at Ideals in Motion

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Random Reflections On A Sunday Afternoon...

If people can't control their own emotions then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior. Saying something is "different" always diminishes its intrinsic value...even if the difference being described is "better". IT simply is what it is... Continue reading

Posted Oct 8, 2017 at Ideals in Motion

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Fully Committed and Totally Detached

The difference between being committed to something and being a commitment are profound. Most people, when speaking and thinking of commitments think in terms of something outside of themselves. "I'm committed to achieving that goal" or "I'm committed to our... Continue reading

Posted May 18, 2017 at Ideals in Motion

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A Man of Knowledge...

As related by Don Juan to Carlos Castaneda... A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it; and then he looks and rejoices and laughs; and then he sees and knows. He knows that his life will... Continue reading

Posted Mar 16, 2017 at Ideals in Motion

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Terry...thank you for the comments. Just "shaping the container" to feature the content most effectively 😄.

Commented Mar 2, 2017 on A Mission With A Business or A Business With A Mission? at Ideals in Motion

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A Mission With A Business or A Business With A Mission?

Patagonia famously ran this advertisement in the New York Times on Black Friday 2011 as a way of encouraging its customers (and others) to question their "need" to buy something new. This was not an isolated publicity stunt. It has... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2017 at Ideals in Motion

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Eleanor, Thank you for you comment. Beauty is indeed the way by which we ascertain whether Spirit is visible on the work.

Commented Feb 6, 2017 on The Co-Creative Nature of Leadership at Ideals in Motion

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The Co-Creative Nature of Leadership

When stripped of the behavioral characteristics, the personality distinctions, and the situational competencies typically used to describe a leader, what one is left with is movement – leaders cause movement, they cause change. Leadership is defined for the purposes of... Continue reading

Posted Feb 6, 2017 at Ideals in Motion

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Our Ideals Are At Enormous Risk...

The rallies and protests occurring in the wake of Trump’s election victory are understandable...the aspirational future of the millennial generation has been shaken to its core. Electoral Map based on voters 18-25 of age. In this Presidential election the following... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2016 at Ideals in Motion

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