Acknowledgements
Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world. Eleanor Roosevelt I owe my deepest, most heart-felt gratitude to many people […]
The Future is a Choice – 1.1.1
What determines eminence is less a call to greatness but the call of character. Thomas Moore FIERCELY AWARE: The Brutal Facts: 1.1.1 The future is not a fixed point. It is ours to create. I […]
A Mobius Life – 1.1.2
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson FIERCELY AWARE: The Brutal Facts: 1.1.2 As innovations offer hope for an improved future, […]
Small Group, Big Change – 1.1.3
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. John F. Kennedy FIERCELY AWARE: The Brutal Facts: 1.1.3 The Mobius Life (see last post here), […]
Challenges in Our Workplaces – 1.1.4
Work is one arena where we express our humanity, search for meaning, play out our destinies and our dreams, contribute our energies and gifts to the world, and spend our precious nick of time. Gregg […]
Challenges in Our Schools – 1.1.5
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Marian Wright Edelman FIERCELY AWARE: The Brutal Facts: 1.1.5 Amidst exciting pockets of innovation, the […]
Challenges in Our Communities – 1.1.6
We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep. William James FIERCELY AWARE: The Brutal Facts: 1.1.6 There are an incalculable number of forces shaping how we engage […]
A Powerful Antecedent – 1.2.1
I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me in the most difficult moments. Roger Federer FIERCELY AWARE: The Science: 1.2.1 Camden, Arkansas is the home of one of the world’s […]
Happy and Well – 1.2.2
No medicine cures what happiness cannot Gabriel García Márquez FIERCELY AWARE: The Science: 1.2.2 Likely propelled by the issues discussed in Section One, there has been an explosion of interest in happiness in the last […]
The Strength(s) to be Positive, Happy and Well – 1.2.3
…the focus on human strengths and virtues is one of the most important initiatives in psychology of the past half century Howard Gardner FIERCELY AWARE: The Science: 1.2.3 Leading researchers widely acknowledge the science of […]