The fear of failure is always connected to a negative filament of the unknown. This fear is in a lack of presence – a pouring out of power, a drawing down by an unnecessary visit to the future. Arriving at my writing place, Pam was walking to her car. Pam is the artist who masterfully created the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Authenticity’
Confident Structure
Posted in The Skill of Confidence, tagged Authenticity, Commitment, Experience, Fear of Failure, Focus, Learning, Presence, Present, Purpose on February 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Confident Interaction
Posted in The Skill of Confidence, tagged Authenticity, Commitment, Desire, Intent, Interaction, Respect on January 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »
There are many portals to pass through in order to nurture an authentic flow and unfold your Desire & Intent. Your Desire & Intent made real creates the prerequisite safety which opens the dialogue portal. Your authentic leadership is sustained as you commit to an organic form of transparency: Confident openness which flows from your [...]
Freedom and Confidence – Purpose
Posted in Confidence, Freedom and Confidence, tagged Accountability, Authenticity, Purpose, Trust, Values on January 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
It is an offence in our collective experience when an individual feels no purpose. We each have an accountability to purpose – to be who we are; embracing and leveraging who we are and making choices in light of this authenticity. Before you do, there is an accountability to be. Purpose grows confidence in the [...]
Freedom and Confidence – Planning
Posted in Confidence, Freedom and Confidence, tagged Authenticity, Brand, Flow, Focus, Love, Planning, Trust on December 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This time each year is my “planning season.” It is a time where I review my focus and narrow my approach in making more real the institution of what I know: A friend once challenged me to “Build an organization that confirms and makes real what you know.” And for me, I have added, “and [...]
Freedom and Confidence – Trusting in the Flow
Posted in Confidence, Freedom and Confidence, tagged Authenticity, Flow, Purpose, Trust on November 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
There is freedom in trust. There is promise in the flow. In my book, Wading the Stream of Awareness, I illustrate flow as being present with life. Life is flowing, and it moves with or without our conscious presence. The promises made by the movement can only be caught by the conscious fisher. When trust [...]
Trust and Authenticity (Authentic Trust)
Posted in Trust, tagged Authenticity, Collective, Experience, Individual, Judgment on October 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Reading Marlo Morgan’s Mutant Message Down Under spread yet another layer of shielding as I continue to pound-away at the grip of judgment. As Marlo told her walkabout story with the Real People, I was impressed by the beauty of these individual spirits; spirits free of debilitating judgment. For me personally, it is becoming more and [...]
Trust and Motivation (Motivated Trust)
Posted in Trust, tagged Authenticity, Character, Collegial, Experience, Motivation on September 13, 2010 | 9 Comments »
It was Saturday morning, and I took my portable office to one of my coffee shops. Placing my briefcase on a selected table, I looked up and there was Gregg, a new colleague. Gregg’s business is still very young and he has a lot of questions and a need for collegial conversation – we all [...]
Defending Your Right to Confidence
Posted in Trust, tagged Authenticity, Busyness, Change, New Confidence on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The 21st Century has changed work, and it is still evolving. While it was not sudden, it feels sudden. Most of us are caught in the whirl - a whirl of excitement, a whirl of confusion, and the swirling busyness that is an incessant distraction to what is most important. Whether or not one currently understands [...]
Continue the True Story
Posted in Trust, tagged A New Conversation, Authenticity, Commitment, New Confidence, Story on August 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »
To join in the unfolding, true story is to participate in a new conversation. Participation is an equalizer. A commitment to a new conversation is an individual choice and is not tethered to title or position. We each share an equal part and responsibility. As I trust myself to keep the commitments made to self, [...]
The Confidence of Trust
Posted in Confidence, Trust, tagged Authenticity, The Individual, Trust on August 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Speed happens when people at work truly trust each other. -Edward M. Marshall in Building Trust at the Speed of Change The workplace in the 21st Century is in transformation. The fear that many feel is due to a lack of understanding as to why the workplace is in upheaval. While there are many varying [...]
