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Don?t Select the Route before You Know the Destination
Goal-setting is a critically important skill that's necessary for success. However, it's not the most important one.
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Think of it: if each time you were engaged in setting a goal for one of your projects, you were to ask yourself, "Why am I doing this?" how many trips to Abilene might you spare yourself?
The Balance Beam: Prayers That Are Always Answered
Prayer can be a touchy subject, often because it is so easily misunderstood. Once we can connect with its essence, its essential role in life becomes clear.
The Balance Beam: Surviving the Utopian Delusion
'Original Sin' is somehow related to humankind's expulsion from the Garden. Utopian social and political thinkers don't believe in it . . . and it shows.
The Balance Beam: Fear - the Favorite Tool of Demagogues and Despots
Once upon a time, there were victims of 'mushroom media': "keep 'em in the dark and feed 'em manure." Now it's "keep 'em in the dark and keep 'em scared!"
The Balance Beam: The Elephant In Your Dining Room
Purposeful change comes only in quantum leaps. Corrosive change eats away at the core silently, under the radar. Awareness is our only antidote.
The Balance Beam: Confronting Your Worst Enemy
We're so very aware of the threats that come at us from the outside. That's not where the real danger lies, however. If you want to see the real enemy, look inside.
The Balance Beam: Jump Out Before the Water Boils
Destructive change happens gradually and under the weight of authority. Constructive change is radical and requires the courage to buck the current. What's your choice?
The Balance Beam: The Curse of Success — The Gift of Desperation
In life, 'failure' doesn't always come from not reaching your goals. Most times, it comes from reaching them only to find that they were the wrong ones to begin with.
The Balance Beam: Mahatma Gandhi Is a Fan of Mine
If anyone wants to know a sure-fire method of changing the world, all he or she needs to do is to study Mahatma Gandhi. The message couldn't be clearer.
The Balance Beam: Obama Is a Muslim! And I've Just Been Elected Pope!
We live in an upside-down world, where fiction is accepted as truth and the truth is ridiculed as propaganda. What can one person do to change all that?
The Balance Beam: A Moral Gymnast in a Paraplegic World
The more responsibility a person assumes in this world, the greater the ethical challenges he or she will have to face. Our society is sadly deficient in moral training for authentic luminaries.
The Balance Beam: The Season of Smokescreens and Manipulation
Politics and business have a lot in common, they both rely almost exclusively on marketing. There's a fine but discernible line between ethical marketing and manipulation.
The Balance Beam: Redefining Success—Unleashing Your Spirit
Some think that spirituality is theoretically nice for some people, but has no practical value. Yet, without it, sooner or later, we find that our greatest projects have been built on a foundation of shifting sand. It's time to think again.
The Balance Beam: Redefining Success—Prologue
Almost everyone struggles to achieve some kind of success in this life; but how many people can define it for themselves, and how many let others define it for them?
The Balance Beam: The Nudge that Brought It All Crashing Down
When things start going headlong out of control, we find ourselves taking part in an error cascade leading us inexorably to a catastrophe. Is there anything we can do?
The Balance Beam: When 'Spiritual' Means 'Practical'
Many 'practical' business men and women behave as though spiritual intelligence is at best a side issue and at worst a harmful waste of time. In fact, spiritual intelligence is the most critical and practical capacity we have.
Ask Auntie: Spiritual Intelligence, Life, and Business
Some people think that spiritual intelligence is critical; others think that spirituality has no business in business. Auntie sets the record straight.
Ask Auntie: Decision-Making 101
Auntie does her best to guide a reader who is indecisive. Or is s/he?
The Balance Beam: Values and Your Inertial Guidance System
Often there's no one or nothing 'out there' that can tell you whether or not a decision will be the right one. You need to learn to rely on your values: your inertial guidance system.
The Balance Beam: The Bread of Affliction, The Cup of Blessing
There's an extreme difference between an 'historical event' and any old 'event' — it's an event that has a meaning above and beyond itself. We're quickly losing the ability to interpret those meanings.
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