In honor of Valentine’s Day, Awesome Stories focuses on love this week. 21 Life Lessons Reading the intro to this article, I thought the advice might be irrelevant, but I was pleasantly surprised. The lessons invite us to look at life and relationship in new ways based on love, trust, patience, connection, and cooperation. These 21…
This week Awesome Stories brings you noble leadership, Brikawood, and love. Noble Leadership Having studied leadership widely, Margaret Wheatley offers her wisdom on what it takes to provide islands of sanity in these turbulent times. Read her compelling post about the nobility of leadership. A dedicated leader offers compassion, clarity, and vision to help us find our…
Fleeting Freedom The Fourth of July and patriotism stir up my feelings about this country and the way we are headed. I would love to see a more inclusive country that embraces the ideals upon which it was founded. Here’s a lovely video that speaks to that idea. Can we have freedom in a healthy,…
This week Awesome Stories brings you healthy community, clean energy, feeding the hungry, and passion. Healthy Community Margaret Wheatley explores some interesting perspectives on the paradox of community. She believes a healthy community must embrace our opposing needs for both individual freedom and connection to others. Both needs seem hardwired into our genetics and require a…
This week Awesome Stories brings you joy, mystery, inspired leadership, and owls. Reclaim Your Joy This is another touching post by Rachel Macy Stafford filled with authenticity and vulnerability. In this post on parenting, she talks about losing her joy and seeing the impact on her family. When her husband reflected that she was never happy…
This week Awesome Stories brings you the love of music, lunchmates, electric buses and great leadership. The Lady in Number Six The Lady in Number Six is a documentary about a remarkable woman, Alice Herz-Sommer. At 109, Alice was the oldest living survivor of the Holocaust. The remarkable part is how she still believed life…
This week Awesome Stories bring you leadership, high-tech breakthroughs, savoring life, Amazon treasures and love for Valentine’s Day! Bold Leadership This story and photo recently went viral thanks to Brandon Stanton and his Humans of New York campaign. To date, the campaign has raised over $1,100,000! Vidal’s acknowledgment of his principal as the most important person…
Happy New Year! As you may have noticed, I didn’t keep completely away from my blog and the digital world. 🙂 But I found peace, fun and an urge to keep the connections alive within our blogging community. This week Awesome Stories brings you meditation, wind trees, compassion, magic bubbles, nature to the rescue and…
Welcome to Awesome Stories. Get ready to love, smile and be awesome. Do you have what it takes to be a great leader? According to Jane Harper, it takes “humbitious”, a unique blend of humbleness and ambition, leaders to create innovation and creativity. She sites IBM research stating “We notice that by far the lion’s share of world-changing luminaries…
A friend of mine, Dave, is fostering flourishing in his life. I like the phrase thriving. We are both talking about living beyond survival, where we access our inner greatness in order to bring out our best. Our best is usually connected to being uniquely ourselves while helping others. The beauty in helping others is…
writing to freedom 