by Bruce McIntyre | Mar 1, 2024 | Resilience
A Better Way #2 “Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will — namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice....
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 23, 2024 | Resilience
A Better Way #1 “Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems,” according to M. Scott Peck. He elaborates, “Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 16, 2024 | Spiritual Stuff
Defining Your Values #7 The term, “Servant Leadership” may seem unnecessary, but it draws a refreshing distinction in motivation. As Robert K. Greenleaf notes, “The servant-leader is servant first, it begins with a natural feeling that one wants to...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 10, 2024 | Spiritual Stuff
Defining Your Values #6 Frustration, defeat and boredom happen. When you enter a difficult season of life, or if you are attempting to slog through a challenging day, you welcome inspiration to nudge you forward. Inspiration comes in many forms. You may read or hear a...
by Bruce McIntyre | Feb 3, 2024 | Spiritual Stuff
Defining Your Values #5 Hard work. This seemingly simple term has a wide variety of definitions. It could mean long hours, high difficulty, or maximum production in minimal time. Or, it might convey everything from persevering through tasks you dislike to thriving on...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 27, 2024 | Spiritual Stuff
Defining Your Values #4 Hard lessons. Sweet successes. No matter who you are, most likely you have a wide range of good, bad and ugly experiences around money. To be sure, you carry some values about earning, saving, giving, and spending. Consider these: Simplicity....
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 19, 2024 | Spiritual Stuff
Defining Your Values #3 Family, Friendship, Adventure, Nature & Art…these are fundamental to my joy in life. You probably hold some of these very close as well. Carving out time and energy for regular engagement in areas that you value feeds your joy and better...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 12, 2024 | Spiritual Stuff
Defining Your Values #2 Spiritual, cognitive and physical health and freedom. I really value these. When you live in sync with love, joy and peace, everything is better. Your perspective on yourself, others and the world improves dramatically. Sometimes the motivation...
by Bruce McIntyre | Jan 5, 2024 | Spiritual Stuff
Defining Your Values #1 Have you ever defined your values?In the process of goal setting, strategic visioning and articulating missions, this is a crucial exercise that often gets passed over. While you may have a pretty good idea of some of your values, the practice...
by Bruce McIntyre | Dec 29, 2023 | Spiritual Stuff
Ready for 2024 Reverse engineering can be a very effective mechanism for gaining clarity. On almost any project or undertaking, if you begin with the end in mind and work backwards, you can often construct a more realistic strategy. The same applies to annual goal...