Gotta Go Low

Gotta Go Low

How does one choose the high road when a current reality may be horrible? Therein lies the great and strange conundrum we all face. Because we have not found our way to our own inner place of reconciliation with ourselves, we carry frustrations, resentments, prejudices and condemnation into our attitudes, actions and lives.

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Speaking True: Enneagram Virtues

Speaking True: Enneagram Virtues

In my professional human development world, I spend a lot of time working with psychological assessments. One of the things I really like about the Enneagram is the way it thinks of us as humans. It doesn't think you ought to be different. It knows that you are who you are, you're baked the way you're baked.

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Speaking True: Calling Up Not Out

Speaking True: Calling Up Not Out

Sometimes I come across research that I am enthralled by. That happened not too long ago, about two years actually, when I saw some incredible data. The data said that the best developmental interaction is interaction that allows the recipient a relationship of seven to one positive experiences to negative.

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Speaking True: Loving

Speaking True: Loving

All of the great masters and teachers of time have told us that love is easy when it’s familiar or familial. If love is a principle, then loving is a practice. And the best way to learn how to put this practice and principle into play is to learn how to love in places and people who are really hard to express it too.

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