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Reversing Social Malaise
According to Gallup:
In 2024, adults worldwide reported high levels of daily distress: 39% felt a lot of worry, 37% felt stress, 32% experienced physical pain, 26% felt sadness and 22% felt anger. All are higher than they were a decade ago.
What is the antidote to this pain?
I could see this coming a few years ago – a society sliding into despair and a deep distrust of institutions – and this especially noticeable among young people, but also everyone else too. So I wondered if my successful work helping leaders of some of the best managed companies in the world could be adapted to focus on the individual and their sense of disappointment and hopelessness. So, I took everything I had learned working with inspiring leaders and mashed it up into a new book titled, “Reawakening the Human Spirit: Finding the Spark, the Flame, and the Torch Within“.
Bingo! it worked.
So I invite you to give yourself a gift – reawaken your human spirit. We can still become inspired, even in a world that does not always feel inspiring. Not only will you reframe your own life, but you will be an inspiration for others.
It is available as a traditional; book, and also Audible and Kindle. Check it out here: https://secretan.com/books-dvds/reawakening-human-spirit/
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Inspiring Leaders Reveal their Vulnerability
My dear friend Debbie Ford is courageous, vulnerable and brilliant. I want to share a remarkable speech that she gave to the Masters Circle Superconference in Orlando last week in which she demonstratred the power that being vulnerable has to inspire others. Just as...
The New CASTLE® Survey
We have re-vamped and re-launched the CASTLE® Survey with extended questions and detailed definitions and evaluations. The new survey provides results both for you as an individual, and for your organization as a whole. The results of your survey are e-mailed to you...
We Made it Into the Guinness Book of Records
I have been a strong supporter of the "Make Poverty History" campaign in Canada and in the U.S., where it is known (very appropriately for me!) as the "ONE Campaign". During October, I had the privilege of addressing the Governor's Annual Workplace Wellness Conference...
A Recipe for Conscious Leadership that Inspires
I receive Dr. Norm Shealy's newsletter (and I highly recommend it to you) and his most recent one included an article by Dr. Robert Leichman. Theoretically it's about wellness, but I invite you to read it as a way to live as an inspiring and conscious leader. Enjoy!...
Shaping the Next Generation of Leaders
I have just spent 3 very inspiring days working with School Superintendents from across Michigan - one of the most progressive States in pioneering new ideas in educational excellence. We dialogued, heartstormed and discussed ways to inspire educational leaders in...
Where it all Begins
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the...
The Beggar’s Lesson
When we serve others, they grow and so do we. This is a simple (but not easy) recipe for great leadership, coaching, mentoring and life. Service is one of the CASTLE® Principles (see ONE: The Art and Practice of Conscious Leadership). A parable illustrates the...
Public Ranks Professions Having ‘Very Great’ Prestige
The latest research on most admired professions has just been released. I won't comment on the data as I am sure you will draw your own conclusions! The top five and bottom five occupations viewed as having'very great' prestige: Top Five Firefighters 63% Doctors 58...
It’s Always About Leadership.
Following the UN Security Council resolution urging Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities within 30 days or else face further action from the international community, Javad Zarif, the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, said: "Iran is a country that...
An Oasis of Oneness
One of my dearest friends lives in Haifa, Israel. I have known him for nearly forty years and we have been very close. I have watched him grow two generations of families, spending time with them in many different parts of the world. I called him a couple of days ago...
Why we love Authenticity
My PhD Thesis was an investigation into the sources of conflict in the Middle East and how they might be resolved. As you can see from the daily headlines, my impact was unnoticeable! Many of us view the current unfolding violence of the world with horror and alarm....
War: The Enemy of Oneness
James Madison, the 4th U.S. president, (1751-1836) observed that, "Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies,...
