Building on our willingness, rationality, efforts, intentions and ideas, we can effectively act. You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. [attributed to Henry Ford] Amateurs sit ... Read More about Executing – Keeping Commitments
Cycle-of-Life Season
Conceiving – Having Ideas
Great accomplishments begin with ideas, and visions of how things might be. Everything begins with an idea. [Earl Nightingale] And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. [The Bible, ... Read More about Conceiving – Having Ideas
Forming Intention – Making Commitments
Forming intention and making commitments cuts across the domains of emotion and thinking. Once we act on our commitments, we are in the domain of action. Every purposeful action begins with an ... Read More about Forming Intention – Making Commitments
Trying – Making an Effort
In the domain of acting, the first thing we must do is to make an effort – to try. This is a necessary predicate to higher levels of function such as being responsible, reliable and innovative. . . ... Read More about Trying – Making an Effort
Being Rational
Before we can be reasonable, we must be rational. This is the level-one value in our relations to the world. It precedes reason, which is at level two. “Those other people just don’t know how to ... Read More about Being Rational
Being Willing
In the emotions, the first step toward accomplishing anything is being willing. This is far more basic than being eager or enthusiastic. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the ... Read More about Being Willing
Engaging the World
Engaging the world at a basic level represents level-one development in our relations to the physical world. It may involve something as basic as getting out of bed and facing the world. The ... Read More about Engaging the World
Tolerating – Being Civil
Sometimes, before we care about other people or love them, we must learn to tolerate them. This is only a first step, at level one of ethical attainment/development. Socially and culturally, tolerance ... Read More about Tolerating – Being Civil
Seeking and Finding Common Ground
Acknowledging the humanity of others leads us onto common ground. Homo sapiens is a social species with a capacity for fellow feeling. However, we are also a species with tribal inclinations, born of ... Read More about Seeking and Finding Common Ground