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12-Step Leadership

By ⋅ November 30, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Cycle through the 12 Steps for Effective Leadership, each time with greater nuance, on a higher level. By Robert Pater Nov 01, 2011 You’ve likely heard about 12-step programs to combat a range of addictive behaviors. These interventions have helped millions, including several people I know whose lives have turned around with their support. Similarly, there [...]

Why Walking Will Revive Your Motivation

By ⋅ January 28, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

The media are raving about the health benefits of walking right now and we all know it’s important to exercise, but walking can do so much more for you: help you think clearly, inspire new ideas, energize you for all you have to do, allow you to see things from a new perspective and give [...]

Adapt or Die ~ Civilization, Society, Individual, Humanity

By ⋅ February 10, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The death of a culture, or society, is not a pleasant thought. Yet, looking at history, it can also be seen as an evolution of people. From world wars, civil wars, civil unrest, and demonstrations, we have been witness to major influences upon the course of history through cataclysmic events of varying degrees across various [...]

How Could It Be?

By ⋅ October 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Yesterday I shared a significant insight from my own journey. It’s interesting to note that often a powerfully resistant question crops up almost immediately. “What do you mean?” It is a powerful disbelief because this realization places even more responsibility on my doorstep than I had otherwise felt real. This is where the sh1t has [...]

What are you going to do?

By ⋅ September 22, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s a question that runs through our heads often. More often than not, it is a response to managing difficult situations. You struggle, you fumble, opportunities are missed, reactions are off the mark, and you pick yourself up and try again. When it does come up in conversations, what’s done is done and we respond, [...]

New Site, New Life, Old Site, Old Posts

By ⋅ September 19, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Hello visitors, readers, friends, and everyone. My old website had long since outgrown me. I felt stuck with it and, ironically, I felt stuck with my career and my life. The breaking point came with a break too! There I was the day before Halloween, 2006, a gimp lame duck with a broken wing, not [...]

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