For 21 days a group of us endeavored to build and hold a morning routine. Win the morning, win the day! We supported each other using a set of tools. But the process was held together by a simple rule: if I fail to keep my commitment, everyone in my group has to pay.
We are social animals. We don’t want to let each other down. And we certainly don’t want to be the cause of someone else's punishment.
The tool worked like a charm.
Read MoreHow can we believe in evolution if we don’t believe that people can change?
What do we have to do to make room for redemption? For forgiveness? For growth?
This year, Calvin Feliciano, who is like a brother to me, was held at the Canadian border. He was not allowed into Canada. He could not participate in this year's Evolutionary Leadership Workshop.
He was not allowed to take this life-changing journey of transformation. He was sent back to the United States for mistakes made sixteen years ago, when he himself was 16.
In this episode I interview author Cyndi Suarez, who has just released The Power Manual, a book on how to master complex power dynamics. Cyndi has written a comprehensive operations manual for living into the tension of these distinctions and quite literally enacting our way to freedom.
Read MoreLast month I was blessed to facilitate the fourth annual Evolutionary Leadership Workshop, our flagship program. A workshop to make dreams real. I also facilitated the first ever Evolutionary Leadership Graduate Program, an opportunity for former workshop participants to come back and level up.
Read MoreI was moved to learn that my friend Kenzo An, runner, meditator and all-around passionate man, wrote a post on the practice of fulfillment for About Meditation.
In Yes, Fulfillment Is a Path but It’s Also the Goal he writes that:
There is a deeper source that doesn’t fluctuate based on external conditions. The sense of fulfillment is immediate and unconditional.
I'm testing the approach to group accountability that will hold together our Mastermind Group. A premium program that we are developing for successful professionals who want to level up. Want to build your morning routine?
Read MoreDamali Vidot-Rosa is the kind of person you fall in love with the minute that you meet her. She exudes the sort of authenticity that is defined by love. She is President of the Chelsea City Council and part of the Evolutionary Leadership Cohort of 2017.
Four years ago David Brooks wrote a column that stuck with me. Startling Adult Friendships]. I saved it.
In it he fantasized about what he would do with $500 million dollars. He said that he would try to set up places that would cultivate friendships. He would take the sort of networking programs that seem to transform people’s lives and make them less career oriented and more profound.
That’s what I do.
(Minus the 500 million)
As I spend my days in progressive circles, privileged to spend time with people committed to a movement that can redeem our country and help save the world, it is crystal clear to me that this sign names the core platform that we are fighting for. Queer and trans liberation. The liberation of migrant people. The liberation of Black people. Governance grounded in reason. The liberation of women. The end of an extraction economy and right relationships with the planet. These are evidently true.
But what about kindness?
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