Patience and Perseverance
I heard once that perseverance pays off, and I must add, eventually. Thus we need to connect patience with perseverance and we have a much better chance of the payoff. Herewith, an excerpt from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. We are, quite naturally, impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We should like to
0VERNAL EQUINOX 2012
In the Northern Hemisphere on March 20, 2012, at 1:14 A.M. (EDT) Spring officially arrived on this part of the planet. When I learned about the Southern Hemisphere many years ago, I wondered how the good people there connected Spring to Easter. I am not sure I still understand it completely, but having been in
0THE TIME IS NOW
Personal sacrifice is a high price to pay for what you believe, what you do and who you are as a leader. On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Dale Regan, head of the Episcopal School of Jacksonville, was murdered in her office by a former teacher, disgruntled and disturbed by being dismissed earlier. You can read
0The Effective and Efficient Leader
Leaders have an enormous array of expectations placed on them by a variety of types and kinds of people from Boards of Directors to employees. How does one meet the needs of different constituencies and still have the time and energy for a personal life? Communicating with confidence and clarity, delegating wisely and being accessible
0THE GIFT OF EACH DAY
I just read somewhere that if you want an extra day, you just had one. What did you do with it? The reference was to February 29, being Leap Day and if you didn’t catch the recent 30 Rock episode devoted to a celebration of Leap Day, find it. It’s worth a chuckle or two,
0Honoring Dad – February 24, 1912
My Dad would have been 100 yesterday and my thoughts about him included a lot of memories that are both vivid and meaningful. In my 75th year, I have now lived ten years beyond what he was given. During those 42 years that I knew him, loved him and was guided and inspired by him,
0Learning from Choice and Consequence
Some years ago I learned that over 85% of adolescents believe that consequences can only be negative, undesirable and to be avoided. When I explained that it’s possible to have a good consequence the kids thought that was an oxymoron or a contradiction of terms. I said that consequence is synonymous with result and that
0It’s About Time!
–> Here is an interesting phrase, “taking time off” because one can not really ever turn time off. What we mean is “time out” from the usual and ordinary, perhaps to invest in the unusual and extraordinary. Like it says in the old ads for Timex, it just keeps on ticking and one day,
0Learning from Looking and Watching
We live on a river in northern New Mexico. In the winter, the river is populated with a variety of ducks swimming up and downstream, lots of Canada geese who swim, fly and honk their way along the river and some beavers who are my nemesis. I am learning from all of them.I watch the
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