Your people’s magic held back–by you
People have more magic in them than we can guess. Your guessing, your presuming holds them back, and so holds us back. Stop guessing!
:- Doug.
Leading in the 21st century
I suggest to you that leading in the 21st Century is not oriented toward 1950s militaristic command and control; rather it is more collaborative, finding the gifts and strengths of each person, to where everyone is leading in something. So what are your issues and opportunities to more completely engage your people, to engage their deepest and highest longings?
I suggest that it looks something like Open Space, draws some principles from this way of being together in the world.
:- Doug.
Why we share laughs
We share laughs because we want to say There’s something here to enjoy.
:- Doug.
What’s inside that would make the world better?
What’s inside that would make the world better?
:- Doug.
The world is only better if it is better for all.
The world is only better if it is better for all.
:- Doug.
Gets us to we?
What do you love that gets you out of your self? What do you love that gets us to we?
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1217–Say what you’re noticing:
Footprints in the Windsm # 1217
Say what you’re noticing. Noticing is the first step toward what’s profound, what’s important, what’s humane.
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Do what you love, what?
If you could do what you love as an act of service, what would it be?
:- Doug.
What would make this world better?
What would make this world better, would serve the whole?
:- Doug.
We are in charge
To engage the world means to engage others; to engage others means to converse with or without words or sounds; to engage the world means that you—all of us—are in charge, and in charge for what has meaning and liveliness and love all for service of the whole.
:- Doug.
How would you be of service?
What would you dearly love to bring to this world that would be of service?
:- Doug.
Two opposite errors in our thinking
We Western humans these days have two opposite errors in our thinking: We think that we are not in charge; We think that we are in charge. We think that politicians and officials are in charge of the world, when most often we have abdicated this responsibility. We think the other people around us are out to get us, and we need to get ours first, so we set goals and do other things to take charge, to grab what’s “ours.” The error is the same: we see others as separate from us and we are powerless against them. When once we see we are part of the only life on this planet, then we can find our proper power, realize that we are in charge, that what we love matters, and that we must take charge as an act of service, this one life comes together, life makes sense. We are in charge…as an act of service.
:- Doug.
Want a job?
Want a job, want more jobs, a better economy, a better government? You are in charge.
:- Doug.
Invite their wholest person
Invite and entice people out as their fullest wholest person. What are you about? Who are you deepest down?
:- Doug.
The key to goals is never goals
The key to goals is never goals
themselves
but rather clarity
in your direction, ours
:- Doug.
The way to peace runs
The way to peace runs
Through our voices, yours & mine
Provided they first run through
Our hearts
From there they can run through our heads
It matters not
Provided they first run through
Our whole
:- Doug.
I dreamed in a dream
I dreamed in a dream of one
City & America & world
Immersed in life and conversing
:- Doug.
