 By Jim Selman | Bio
I’ve been thinking about aging and
observing the human phenomenon for a long time and I know that most of
the chatter in my head isn’t ‘me’—it’s just the tapes of my past and my
ego playing the tune to which my culture expects me to dance. For
example, I believe and know from experience that the key to health and wellbeing is “participation”—staying
engaged in whatever games I choose to play. Yet, that little voice in
my head insists that I should rest more, take it easy, slow down and
just enjoy life. I can observe myself being seduced by the reasonable
and conventional wisdom that as I get older I should participate less. [ Read More]
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 By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Over
the years, I have seen and recognized the enormous effect of the CEO’s
personality and ‘way of being’ on the energy of a company. All
personalities have limitations and drawbacks. But when somebody has the
top position in a system, the effect of what they focus on and what
they suppress is immense. Whatever a CEO’s automatic way of relating to
the world, whatever their way of dealing with relationships, or with
conflict, or with results and measurement, or with finances or
thinking, gets reflected throughout the organization. Too many CEOs
only allow real creative thinking in the areas that interest them and
simply avoid those areas that appear more threatening. Now this is
human nature, and it’s to be expected. But if CEOs could begin to see
the world in energetic terms, they would see the suppressive affect of
some of their behavior on the energy of their company and people’s
power to execute the very things they most want implemented. [ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Of great influence in my thinking has been The Urban Shaman
by Serge Kahlili King. One of his assertions was that “energy flows
where the attention goes.” My work was always shaped by where the CEO
or the leader was putting his or her attention. My life is shaped by
where I’m putting my attention. And with everybody I knew, their lives
were affected by where they placed their attention. What I hadn’t seen
before was that energy accompanied attention and that certain kinds of
attention enhanced energy. In organizations, outward results can be
directly linked to the energy created from where the attention flows. [ Read More]
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 By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Over
the years, I have seen and recognized the enormous effect of the CEO’s
personality and ‘way of being’ on the energy of a company. All
personalities have limitations and drawbacks. But when somebody has the
top position in a system, the effect of what they focus on and what
they suppress is immense. Whatever a CEO’s automatic way of relating to
the world, whatever their way of dealing with relationships, or with
conflict, or with results and measurement, or with finances or
thinking, gets reflected throughout the organization. Too many CEOs
only allow real creative thinking in the areas that interest them and
simply avoid those areas that appear more threatening. Now this is
human nature, and it’s to be expected. But if CEOs could begin to see
the world in energetic terms, they would see the suppressive affect of
some of their behavior on the energy of their company and people’s
power to execute the very things they most want implemented. [ Read More]
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With the recent bankruptcy filings of six airlines (ATA, Oasis Hong
Kong, Aloha, Skybus, Frontier and Champion) in the past two weeks, the
issues of climate change and peak oil dominate media reporting. Local
journalists are calling transportation planners and policy-makers to task,
suggesting that their focus should not be committing more resources to
infrastructure developments that support the airline industry as it
exists today. Air travel has been subsidized by government, but
environmental
realities can no longer be ignored.[ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio Read the first post and second post in this series.
During the second year in my transition from a static world to an
energetic-based point of view, I took a training program with a Mexican
teacher, Victor Sanchez, who had studied and lived with the Toltec
Indians in northern Mexico. Victor had developed a coherent conceptual
framework that was very much based on energy. Lorin Smith didn’t have a
lot of explanation for what he did. He just did it, and I saw that he
was working with fundamental energies. Victor Sanchez, in contrast, was
a scholar as well as a teacher. He said that the Toltec Indians
believed that the world does not consist of objects. Rather, they
believe the world consists of interacting energy fields and that the
systems with greatest available energy will prevail. [ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio Read the first post in this series.
Lorin Smith had developed his own healing practice based on massage,
singing, dance, telling stories. As I came to know him over time, I saw
he could look at a person, individual, or look at a group, and see
exactly what kind of energy was missing. He could see where the joy was
missing, or where the relationship was missing. He could see whether
people didn’t mean what they said. He could see how their bodies were
contracted or turned against themselves or twisted out of shape. He had
an ability to see what I was not trained to see. I could already sense
some of this in my work with groups, but I was not really construing it
in any kind of energetic framework as he did. And what he was able to
produce, in terms of sick people getting better or groups going from
non-directed to focused, was very fast and remarkable. It was as though
he was breathing life—breathing energy—into them. And he would do
whatever he needed to do, whatever he could think of to do, given his
particular talent, culture, and repertoire. [ Read More]
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By Charles E. Smith | Bio
This is my personal journey, how I came from seeing organizations as
static objects, to seeing them as interacting energy fields. It began
six years ago, when I was the owner of a 16-person organization
development and training firm. We helped companies with strategic
visioning, culture change projects, coaching programs, and project
effectiveness. I built the business from a $25.00-a-day practice in
1969 to over $2.5 million in annual revenues in 1993, with the promise
of continued doubling in growth. I didn’t sleep very well during those years.[ Read More]
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 By Don Arnoudse | Bio
There
is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated
through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all of
time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never
exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it.
It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable
nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is
your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the
channel open… whether you choose to take an art class, keep a journal,
record your dreams, dance your story or live each day from your own
creative source. Above all else, keep the channel open.
—Martha Graham
I
received this quote from my wonderful coach, Ann Cheng, after our last
coaching call. I had told her that my life just wasn’t working lately.
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I was having a conversation today with the Board of a not-for-profit
organization and one of the participants noted that they “needed to
have more younger people” on the Board. I asked “Why?” Her response
was that she was at an age (which I judged to be around 60) when she
had a lot of commitments, she needed to keep earning money and just
didn’t have as much time and energy to give. She went on to say that
younger people had more time, less need for money, and lots more energy
for the kinds of projects that needed doing. Now I don’t know who she was thinking about but almost all of the
younger people I know are very busy, don’t have enough time and money
and little extra energy for other projects.[ Read More]
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