Author: Chet

Crazy thought but it's true.  Long term stability comes through strategic volatility. This is why we're taught, as leaders, when it ain't broke - break it. Makes no sense until you've studied systems. Status quo is slow death. Every healthy system makes strategic changes before outside forces, well, force it.  Fire dissipates without obstacles in … Continue reading No stability without volatility…

Four years ago this morning, I was alive and on Heaven’s door. I’m reposting the story for those that don’t know and for those that do. Let’s this serve as a reminder to take nothing for granted. Life is a gift. Enjoy the present. It’s meant to be bitter and sweet - poison and wine. … Continue reading Alive and gone to Heaven…

I'm writing this on my last day age 65. Today, as you read this sorriness, I am 66. Damn.  Yesterday was epic. Started at 6bells with a zoom practice with my one international client. My contact called me immediately after to tell me it was brilliant. Love the English! Love their language and passion. 7:30 … Continue reading 66…

Baby Aedán turns three today. My good friend, David, turns forty. Separated by thirty seven years they appear so very different today. In God's time they are NOT. "Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger:well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to … Continue reading Whose…

"Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody. Proabably all you think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap … Continue reading Build strength and humility…

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different the saints." C.S. Lewis Taken from Mere Christianity Every team has saboteurs. It's an inside job. As leaders and teammates facing tyrants within our own teams, we will be tweaked (more often than you want to admit). Fact.  What to do? Give … Continue reading Justice and grace…

"In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with … Continue reading Truth…

Epictetus was a stoic stud back in the day. Didn’t write a book but taught so well his students wrote one about him. According to his students writing, Epictetus, taught him two words to internalize. Persist and resist. Without perseverance we stop short. Without resisting what we know we ought, we overindulge and get fat … Continue reading Epictetus…