On some days, the greatest gift we can give our community, each other, and ourselves is the gift of fearlessness.

While kings and queens sit high on their thrones moving common currencies around their game boards, everyday people below dream of being happy.

The idea of boundaries doesn’t have much currency in an abundance perspective, unless we see them as connecting tissue in the fabric of life.

I’ve taken to replace references to “our competition” with “our partners in our communities of practice.” This is a far more abundant distinction that invites us to make a larger impact together while respecting the value of diverse providers. This approach I believe will make our ecology healthy enough to resist the emergence of a single CoachingMart monolith that monopolizes and destroys entrepreneurial opportunities.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. / Leonard Cohen

Are intelligent, creative, and humble leaders more or less likely to change their mind? And perhaps more importantly, do we even prefer intelligent, creative, and humble leaders to the alternative?

Tone matters. It matters in every relationship, team, and community. It matters because it drives the quality of how we think, feel, and interact. Tone is the vibrational level of energy that dominates the consciousness of our mindbody. It is shaped by the beliefs and behaviors we choose to repeat moment to moment, conversation to conversation, day to day.

I spent the shortest time possible in a mall this weekend. It was a cultural anthoplogist’s wasteland.

Reality is tens of thousands of people monthly die needlessly in Africa and India, many children. Why should we care? The answer to this question is the evidence of our imagination and sense of oneness with our universe.

Authentic goodness is humble, certainly not “holier than thou.” Before we become whole beings, we project our unacceptable sides on other people; when we become whole, we see everyone in ourselves.