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What's the value of networking groups like the Young
President's Organization for presidents of companies
and Ladies Who Launch for women entrepreneurs?
Barbara Streisand hit the nail on the nail with the
lines "people who need people are the luckiest
people...".
We do need each other, and we need each other
profoundly. Beyond collegial note-comparing, finding
the best website provider or hottest sushi place, these
organizations are powerful go-to's for finding people of
passion who welcome hopes and dreams. Prioritizing
that is making a conscious choice
about how to move through the world and determining
actively what world you really want to move through.
The passion we experience in each other is our
greatest gift - it's the fix we can't resist. From the
goose-bump/tear inspiring video produced by
celebrities in support of Obama to Hillary's own hottly
debated tears, McCain's unyielding-qualities and
Huckabee's resolute, pollster-free "simple man"
approach - when you consider the magnetic power of
any of the candidates' most human passion - this is
what we most need from each other. It is to this
passion that we most profoundly respond.
This month's balancebreak is about passion. Yes, in
honor of Valentine's Day. Yes, in honor of the passion
of all of the candidates and the all-encompassing job
they aspire to. But mostly we are honoring those
things as a reminder to you of whatever gets
you out of
bed with more than just a pulse. It is a reminder of
your heart and its power to quicken with excitement in
recognition of your own truth. It is a reminder of
passion's ubiquity and
the anytime invitation to return to your own - available
anytime you pause for a moment's visit with it.
Be well,
Tevis Gale
Editor & Founder
Balance Integration
PS. Look for our upcoming "I Want My Corporate
Guru" Contest!
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Circle of Fire
What comes to mind when reading the following
words: "passion at work"? If you're like most of us,
the response is usually "nice idea but get real". This
was never so obvious to me as in a recent offsite with
some folks from YPO. A handful of execs, they
represented a broad array of industries and
personality types. Diversity aside, these successful
presidents of companies universally faced the same
struggle: how to ignite passion and get the best out of
people.
As professionals, who doesn't want to feel passion?
Curiously, while we lament the lack of engagement or
innovative thinking of those around us, rarely do we
allow...
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Passion Play
What we feed grows. It's true of everything, including
your thoughts. Think of your most negative friends and
your most positive ones too - notice how they scan the
world looking for evidence to support their disposition
of choice. While it could be argued that by adulthood,
such selective processing of the world and events
around you is already hard-coded, why not challenge
yourself to adopting the highest way of perceiving any
one set of events around you? Not unlike the old
reminder "WWJD?" (what would jesus do) , use the
following steps to find...
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Passion for LIFE!
Yolanda Smith is a refugee. What she's managed to
escape is the drill-sergeant grind of her work-
obsessed self. Reading these words here may
surprise you. After all, we're the I-Heart-My-Job
people. But truth be told, we're also the Keep-It-Real
people. The Sustainable Success people.
If
there's one thing you need to sustain yourself over the
long haul in any form of success worth having, it's the
ability to...
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Freeze!
With no idea who these people are or why they did
what they did, the audacity of having such a simple
and hilarious idea and then acting on it just delights
us to no end.
Playing with reality is the bomb. It's the perfect
antidote to thinking everything just has to be the way it
is. What fantastic freedom to carry into
ANYTHING you do!
Freeze Me!
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