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Day 41 – One Teaching – No Hard Feelings

I heard The Avett Brothers song, “No Hard Feelings” for the first time last night. I recently lost a very close friend and the timing of the words in this song, as they first hit my ears, seemed like synchronicity and felt divine.

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Day 37 – One Teaching – Seven Stars

I feel a sense of harmony when I find references within different religions that seem to point to the same general ideas about spirituality. In this post we find a link between East and West.

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Day 34 – One Teaching – Cognitive Dissonance

The psychological term cognitive dissonance has always intrigued me. Cognitive relates to the mind, which is to say thinking and processing. Dissonance is the opposite of harmony in that it involves disturbance caused by the clashing of two things.

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Day 32 – One Teaching – Interbeing with Clouds

My first introduction to any spiritual or religious teachings outside of Christianity came during an “Introduction to Buddhism” class that I took in college. Taking this class ended up being one of the best spiritual decisions I could have ever made.

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Day 30 – One Teaching – Life is Great!

Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright expands the concept of the hero’s journey to organizations. I originally read it years ago, as I was building my team, to help us develop our culture.

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Day 28 – One Teaching – The Color Blue

The color blue brings me joy. In many instances, you can only see blue from far away and when you try to get close it vanishes. Water, ice and sky, in their vastness, can all be seen through many shades of blue.

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Day 23 – One Teaching – System 2 Is Lazy

What if we set an intention to use Kahneman’s System 2 with more regularity to question unconscious beliefs? To be a maverick and deliberately question our unconscious beliefs, this is what it means to truly think for ourselves.

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Day 21 – One Teaching – Is it the Beer?

Oneness is a an incredibly relevant topic right now. Yesterday a new President was inaugurated. It doesn’t matter to me what your political beliefs are and this blog ain’t gonna go there, but I trust we can all agree that the people of our nation appear to be divided.

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