If a person was alone on a deserted island their whole life, would their life have meaning?

There are two roads. One road goes towards the individual. The other road goes towards the tribe. Which do you choose? If you choose the road towards the individual, you are choosing to believe that you are enough. You believe that the individual is sufficient within himself, or perhaps that God within the individual is …

Meaning in the path of responsibility

The age-old question: What is the meaning of life? Many traditions have answered this question, and there are doubtless many valid answers. This post is about one such answer. I just finished reading a book called “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl. It is written by a psychiatrist who become a Holocaust concentration camp …

Mission

Do you believe that people have mission’s for their lives? When I look up the definition of mission, the definition I intend is “a strongly felt aim, ambition, or calling.” In this sense, mission seems to be a combination of our natural abilities (your “calling”) and our goals (our “ambitions”, which is a “strong desire …

Thoughts on Leadership – exploring a leader, manager, technician model to leadership development

I wonder if you couldn’t break apart the functions of leaders, managers and technicians.  A technician should be concerned with mastering two things: themselves as a person and their craft. To master yourself as a person, you have to know yourself. What are your motivators and demotivators? How do you discipline yourself to be productive?  …