What will you begin today? …
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By James Strock
What will you begin today? …
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By James Strock
Thank you for visiting the Serve to Lead blog. This website is a living resource dedicated to your reaching your highest level of performance, and contributing your greatest value, in the new world …
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Make those New Year's resolutions—but not just yet.... Before you take on those new tasks and perspectives and practices for the New Year, what are you leaving behind with the Old Year? …
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[H]e not busy being born is busy dying. --Bob Dylan, "It's Alright, Ma, (I'm Only Bleeding)" OK, it may sound harsh, but Dylan is exactly right.... and we all know it. When you look hard at your …
By James Strock
By James Strock
Chuck Close is one of the great artists of our time. The book Wisdom, by Andrew Zuckerman, includes the following from Close: …
“There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder… It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who ‘but for the vile guns would have been a valiant soldier.'”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Who Am I Serving?
How Can I Best Serve?
Am I Making My Unique Contribution?
What Am I Becoming?
“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.”