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What calling do you feel led to do? Sometimes, we need to “go for it” with “callings” when “feeling” and “thinking” makes us cautious. This article also is about doing something more meaningful than logical–traveling across the USA and back 5,000 miles to bring home a horse. For two years I lived in Washington State during...

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. – Albert Schweitzer...

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man. – Saint Francis of Assisi...

“If you really want to help this world, what you will have to do is teach how to live in it.” -Joseph Campbell- Schools and colleges will increasingly teach students of best-self leadership and to write plans for school and life to apply what they learn plus identify callings and make choices. When we help...

  These synthesized life lessons provide a core strategy for preparing and taking action as your best-self: LEAD your LIFE. Choose to identify and fulfill your callings, gifts, and talents; live as your best-self, prepared for action, increasingly strong and resilient. PLAN for LIFE. Discern your callings and write your choices for the life you...

The 7 Areas of Life  Everything we do falls into one or more of these 7 Areas of Life. Activities listed within the 7 Areas below cover most things we do: Physical: breathe, eat, sleep, bathe, groom, and exercise to survive and care for physiological needs, providing a platform of health and energy. Financial: budget, purchase, and invest...

Principles that Drive Practices Leading to Better Empowerment  True professionals proactively and respectfully earn empowerment rather than wait for it—planning, stating intent, getting feedback, improving, and working with cooperation…. Best-Self Servant Leaders state intent, expectations, and parameters to boost initiative and trust, decrease confusion and conflict, and improve preparation and promotion aimed at mission, desired...