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-May 7, 20202 min readMourning and MorningI watched The Lincoln Project’s "Mourning in America" video this morning and it left me deeply sad, with a healthy dose of determination....
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-Jan 12, 20201 min readA newly-discovered ancient teaching from the Hawaiian Huna traditionMAKIA – Energy flows where attention goes. This wise, old adage is one of the keys to leadership. Too often we spend time and energy on...
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-Feb 9, 20191 min readWise wordsJocelyn Lippert Alt offers three new corollaries to John Shedd's sage warning that "a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships...