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Guidance through GOING

Guidance follows GOING.   --- BLG The four essential steps of strategic management are situation analysis, strategy formulation, strategy implementation, and strategy evaluation.  In other words and as I explain to my business students, it is all about analyze,...

Passion. Priority. Persistence.

So long as the thoughts of an individual are scattered he will achieve no results, but if his thinking be concentrated on a single point wonderful will be the fruits thereof. One cannot obtain the full force of the sunlight when it is cast on a flat mirror, but once...

The Strategic Strength of Simplexity

While performing and singing the song Simple Man last night (I personally love this version by Shinedown), a thought occurred to me. Accepting our complexity fashions a powerful simplicity. I choose to now call it Simplexity™. SIMPLEXITY™: We are who we are.  There...

Focus Fierce and Finish

I found myself in several seemingly unrelated conversations this week, with a connection.  In each, there was discussion about fierce focus and finishing.  We live in a world that subtly or not-so-subtly sends out messages that we must multitask and that our moving...

Alignment and the 800 Pound Gorilla

Alignment is everything. Think about it. Whether we call it "the zone” or “groove” or authenticity, integrity or branding... it is about meaning what we say and saying what we mean; doing what we mean and meaning what we do. It is filled with intention, and may start...

Redefine the BOOM

"Parts of me feel our fair city and region is forgetting it's soul, increasingly caught up in the new "speed" of things, anger and fear. I realize we have 3 choices... do nothing and watch it happen, simply complain and bemoan, or make a stand one person at a time......

Together, Alright

"TOGETHER... everything is going to be alright... so moved. Spread the word, everywhere. EVERY where."  See This Video. This was my repost on Facebook just minutes ago.  This video, produced by Amelia Curran, and engaged by a plethora and diversity of souls in my...

Two Teachers and Some Thanks Giving

This is the Thanksgiving Weekend in Canada and I am encouraged to see the many expressions of thankfulness and gratitude on social media. In a world, where much is in flux and apparent crisis, thankfulness is a challenge but a great place to start towards freedom....

Wholehearted Words

This morning I had the sincere pleasure, honor and challenge of listening to Kathy Stock share her remarkable story of humility, faith, courage and service.  Justifiably, she met with a standing ovation at the end of her message. Through her story and even before, my...

See You on the Other Side

With the unofficial launch of our new work and website at www.epicengage.com, and plans leading up to something more "official" October 13 (Thanksgiving in Canada and Columbus Day in the USA), I am feeling the need to take a closer look at the virtue of...

A Launch WHOLEhearted

To celebrate the launch of the new EPIC Engage™ website this day, I thought to simply offer up our definition of the virtue of wholeheartedness, as it is core to our work now and going forward.  As Amy Hiscox and I consulted on the nature of this virtue, we arrived at...

Come with Me NOW?

This morning, following a productive brainstorming meeting around the advancement of entrepreneurship in Newfoundland and Labrador, and a very cool and fun photo shoot hot on its heels... I found myself returning to office, my home base, my Pseudio. Along the way,...