ideas for being amazing

Bear Good Fruit

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Walk into my organization and spend time with everyone that works with me. Within five minutes one thing will be abundantly clear: the people who have worked with me the longest are the most like me.  They think the most like me. They talk the most like me.  They act the most like me.  I’m not saying they are not…

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Someday

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We use the word someday like it is going out of style. Someday I’ll get down to the weight I want. Someday I’ll start my own company. Someday I’ll travel around the world. Of course I’ll do it, someday. Someday always sounds good.  It  allows us to convince ourselves that we are serious about our deepest goals and ambitions, while…

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The Problem With Social Media, Unlimited Voice, And A Few Other Things

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One of the best things about social media is that it has given us all unlimited voice. Thanks to platforms like Facebook and Twitter, we all have an outlet to be instantaneously heard. The problem with having unlimited voice is that we make the mistake of thinking everyone wants to listen. The problem with thinking everyone wants to listen is…

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Find Yourself In The Middle

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You  can’t take the millions of people in poverty out of their situation overnight.  You can’t take the millions of people infected by HIV and make them healthy tomorrow.  You can’t take the millions of people who are food insecure (hungry) and feed them all for the rest of their lives. It is often hard to see people living in…

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Find Your Reset

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Technology is evolving at an incredible rate.  It is now voice activated and no longer requires that you use buttons, hands, or feet.  But no matter how futuristic the technology gets one button from the past remains…the reset button.  The reset button will never go away because, no matter how incredible the technology, it will always needs the opportunity to…

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get in the way

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it’s easy to see poverty and turnaround.  it’s easy to have a fight with your wife and walk into the other room.  it’s easy to senior leadership failing to turn things around and stay silent.  it’s easy to see problems and make the choice to just get out of the way.   funny thing about problems is that, for whatever reason,…

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