It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin Over the last two decades, our personal and professional experience with changing circumstances in our lives…
It is Day One after a long journey back from Canterbury, England. As always upon my return from the Socio-technical Systems Roundtable’s (STS-RT) annual learning event, I am filled with more questions than answers, which is probably a good measure of…
This weekend’s paper published a two-page spread, not on the U.S. Republican convention nor on the provincial election in Quebec but on the over-population of cats in urban settings. As the statistics estimated, “between 50,000 and 100,000 cats (not spayed…
For a third week running, I continue my conversation on identity, a topic foremost on my mind since my pilgrimage back to my youth in the form of a 40th high school reunion. As I reflect on what identity has…
My last blog talked about identity transformation, a universal life experience in which we choose to alter who we are and how we express ourselves in the outer world; that is, we change our being not just our behaviour. Identity…
Tomorrow will find me enroute to my 40th high school reunion in Gull Lake, Saskatchewan. As I ponder the pleasure and pain of adolescents growing up together in a small-town, I realize some of my school chums will be unrecognizable…
When I reflect back on my early consulting career, it was filled with striving — striving to reach a project goal, striving to be recognized for my expertise, striving to grow my practice and revenue. As a result of this…
As humans, we do not have the capacity to selectively numb out only our dark emotions. When we numb out any emotion, we numb out all emotion. Hence why many people no longer know what brings them joy. In numbing…
Where attention goes, energy flows. The adage above reminds us that with our thoughts, we create our reality. Simply put, with doom and gloom thoughts, we create a doom and gloom reality. With thoughts of abundance, we create an abundant…
Having intent is merely coming home to yourself. Living in the moment. A conversation with a friend, while strolling through my neighbourhood, led to a discussion about the difference between intentions and goals. Both Chris and I share the belief…
Over the past decade, social innovation has emerged as a viable means of creating permanent systems change. Although no singular definition has coalesced from those active in this field, the Centre for Social Innovation settled on “new ideas that resolve…
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. … The only real valuable thing is intuition.…
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