Leaning in to vulnerability.

LEAN INTO VULNERABILITY TO ACHIEVE AUTHENTICITY. 

 Feeling cornered?

Too often workers at all levels of organizations believe that winner-take-all competition with colleagues is the only path to success.  Every interaction becomes just another move on the chessboard of cut-throat manipulations.   There’s a better way for everyone to thrive and succeed, while bringing both personal and organizational goals alive.

Maren and Jamie Showkeir are talented organizational consultants who publish a blog that is chock-full of teaching and tips for successful and meaningful organizational engagement.  I recommend you subscribe whether you work in a setting that has two, two hundred, or two thousand people in it.  No organization is too small or too big to benefit from your own Intentional Living decision to improve your relationships and build the possibility for mutual success and achievement.

Their posts are interesting and inspiring, whether you are considering improving your organizational or your personal relationships, or both!

Click on the link at the top of the page to see their recent post on Leaning Into Vulnerability.   Live, and learn.

For more info, visit their website at www.henning-showkeir.com

Quote for Intentional Living – 2/19/11

 

Quote for Intentional Living

“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.  The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.”

Henry Ward Beecher

No other eyes like yours.

Valentine’s Day is usually focused, at least publicly, on the ecstasy of current love.  What is seldom celebrated is love that, though real and unforgettable, is lost to the lovers.

The most beautiful and tragic love story ever written was penned by Walter Benton, titled  This Is My Beloved.

What follows is the first entry in this diary-style classic. 

Entry April 28

Because hate is legislated . . . written into

the primer and the testament,

shot into our blood and brain like a vaccine or vitamins 

Because our day is of time, of hours – and the clock-hand turns,

closes the circle upon us: and black timeless night

sucks us in like quicksand, receives us totally—

without a rain check or a parachute, a key to heaven or the last long look

I need love more than ever now . . .  I need your love,

I need love more than hope or money, wisdom or drink

Because slow negative death withers the world – and only yes

can turn the tide.

Because love has your face and body . . . and your hands are tender

and your mouth is sweet – and god has made no other eyes like yours.

 

Sometimes the words of another who has felt our pain, shed our tears, felt our soaring joy or harbored our silent hope can inspire us to tell our beloved how much we indeed cherish them… whether they slumber beside us or we are grieving their loss.   I hope you are living in the warmth of joy, but if you are sad over a loss of love and promise, consider a contacting a therapist today to begin illuminating your grief then dissipating your despair and building a future of renewed hopefulness.

Call for an appointment, and begin your own journey toward “Yes”.

 

 

Quotes for Intentional Living – 2/12/11

 Quote for Intentional Living

 “I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.”

                  ~Anaïs Nin to Henry Miller