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Who do we allow to influence us?

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Post date January 21, 2023
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Join me for a quick tip on influence and persuasion. Video is approx 7 minutes

Tags #bettertogether, #four4soaring, #fourforsoaring, #iwant2CUsoar, #soar, Cialdini, hidden brain, influence, Inspiration, Leadership, Light, Love, persuasion

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7 Quick Tips from Sinek: Playing The Infinite Game

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Post date January 9, 2023
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Watch all 7 of our quick tips on Simon Sinek’s Infinite Game.

Tags #bettertogether, #business, #four4soaring, #grow, entrepeneur, Leadership, mental health, quick tips, self improvement, Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game

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Check out the new series on our YouTube channel

Post author By J Johnson
Post date December 18, 2022
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Tags #bettertogether, #four4soaring, #growth, #lifelessons, #quotes, #weneedeachother, better together, change management, improvement, Leadership, motivation, personal growth, self improvement

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How to know if you are helping or enabling?

Post author By J Johnson
Post date November 11, 2022
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A Positively Magical(?) Way to Foster Accountability

Post author By J Johnson
Post date January 28, 2022
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We can all become “energy vampires” at times – if left unchecked. Our role as leaders is to check that tendency at every turn- both in the culture and, perhaps more importantly, in ourselves.

Tags #bettertogether, #four4soaring, #fourforsoaring, #soar, carey nieuwhof, energy vampire\, Inspiration, jon gordon, Leadership, Learning, Light, Love, self help

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We rise by lifting others

Post author By J Johnson
Post date July 17, 2021
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Here is a letter I wrote to a community I belong to when that tribe was at a low point. When we had suffered losses. When the future was uncertain. Fell free to use this, all or part of it, and share it, when you find yourself in a similar situation. Friends, Today is not […]

Tags #bettertogether, #four4soaring, #fourforsoaring, #soar, Faith, Inspiration, Leadership, Light, Love

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Funny thing is, you’re a genius!

Post author By J Johnson
Post date April 13, 2021
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Find your humor and genius and soar! I am excited to bring you an installment of Four4Soaring, with the intent of sparking new ways to look at and approach life, tackle the changes we are faced with, and exercise our collective growth mindset as we grow. Originally published on Medium : John Johnson·8 min read […]

Tags andy stanley, eatin deverna, genius, growth, Humor, improvement, lencioni

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The Time Traveler’s Guide to Leading through Change

Post author By J Johnson
Post date March 27, 2021
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Food 4 Thought from four4soaring We don’t have to change, we GET TO change. The brevity of that mantra and the substitution of the words “get to” for “have to” or “must” evokes anticipation, engagement, and action. At least it feels like that is what the “influencers” and leaders who started introducing this “get to” […]

Tags caveman lawyer, change, change management, george bernard shaw, snl

Podcasts

Business Made Simple Review: Honored to join the SOI Podcast for the 2nd Time

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Post date March 8, 2021
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Tags business, business made simple, donald miller, growth, interviewing, Leadership, personal growth, podcast, sisters of industry, work

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A Tale of Two Cyborgs: Don’t let a glitch make you twitch

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Post date February 28, 2021
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Much like our technological enhancements of today, sometimes the technology helped these fabled bionic TV heroes soar more independently than any other human before and sometimes it got downright “glitchy.” We can do better..together.

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Finding your way on the hero’s journey

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Post date January 13, 2021
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Originally posted on Medium · 5 min read I think anyone who reads my content with any regularity probably has a sense that I am one who reads a great many leadership books and soaks in more than my share of non-fiction. Long time readers are likely to know that I have an affinity for […]

Tags champion, growth, Hero, heros journey, improvement, joseph campbell, personal growth, self improvement

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Embrace Change with Curiosity (and DON’T follow that hat!)

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Post date December 8, 2020
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In these troubling times many of us have experienced change or loss. While the sting of those losses, some professional, too many personal and all deeply impactful, remains with us, we find ourselves facing the winds of change, off balance and chasing who we used to be. In the aftermath, many of us find ourselves […]

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George Carlin on The Little Things We Share

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Post date November 29, 2020
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At a time when we feel our differences are unprecedented and we feel the divides and “space between us” are insurmountable, there is solace in recognizing that we have always had differences. We have always had deep rifts in our national “tribal subcultures.” Nearly 30 years ago, in 1992, George Carlin exposed a great many […]

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Your Feed is a Barometer

As you scroll through your social media feed today, the day after the president-elect was projected by the media. The day that some celebrate in anticipation of that projection being ratified, even while others struggle to reconcile whether that truly is the final result of a contested American referendum… As you swipe through stories, as […]

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Throw Down your Shield and Embrace the Awkward

Post author By J Johnson
Post date November 1, 2020
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Sometimes someone relates to our willingness to be awkward and vulnerable and it brings value to their lives.

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A call for Oneness in a moment of division

Post author By J Johnson
Post date October 22, 2020
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What is our posture supposed to be like as we are pushed into further and further division? Amazing words of clarity from my favorite teachers.

Tags better together, division, Faith, i am the way, its bigger than us, Jesus, love one another, one another one another, oneness, politics

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Questions Impact Culture

Does (y)our approach around asking questions have an impact on culture? A couple of years ago, I facilitated a discussion on another forum centered around the questions spurned from a previous post : No Capes. It was interesting to enter into dialog with folks both within and outside my profession around the topic of people […]

Tags ask questions, better together, better workplace, cal fussman, community, edna mode, frank blake, Leadership, mentorship, no capes, one another one another, tim ferriss

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Steering Your Ship Through the Storms of Change

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Post date September 8, 2020
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When we take on massive change and we seek to overhaul huge swaths of any organization, system, process and/or culture, we, in essence, create a man-made storm. If we try to predict everything that will happen, we are, just like the so-called “layman experts” described above, deceiving ourselves. Never have I guessed perfectly what would happen, never was I fully prepared, often I have been underwhelmed, but too frequently I have been surprised or overwhelmed.

Tags change, change management, dorian, hurricane, storm

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Angry or Afraid? Video

Post author By J Johnson
Post date August 16, 2020
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We Get To : Reprise (with Lumen5)

Post author By J Johnson
Post date August 8, 2020
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The revised blog post: I’ve been reflecting on the words of one of my HR leaders a great deal in recent weeks: “We get to change.” I’d credit her by name, but I do my best not to call out the details of my “day job” in this blog. That job and my other paid […]

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Memoirs and Crystal Balls are Fictions to Beware of…

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Post date August 1, 2020
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We must overcome our flawed lenses on the past and future to be less fearful in the present.

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Engage with one another

Post author By J Johnson
Post date April 26, 2020
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I admire the daylights out of this man and appreciate his impactful TED Talk – learning from others we view as different than us is more critical now than ever…

Tags bettertogether, letsworktogether, loveoneanother, oneanotheroneanother, ted, tedtalks, zacharywood

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See and Be The Bridge: Audio Podcast

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Post date October 26, 2019
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Tags #quotes, bridge, bridge over troubled waters, Faith, help, Jesus, other side, paul simon, self care, servant leadership, we need each other

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Four4Soaring Launches a Podcast

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Post date August 18, 2019
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Hi Soarers! I just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I have been dabbling with recording podcast versions of the blog. The podcast can be found on multiple platforms where podcasts are available like Spotify. I am using an app called Anchor and my iPhone to create the podcasts and right now they […]

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Instead of Cicero’s Six Mistakes…

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Post date July 6, 2019
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It strikes me as worth noting that man has struggled with the same challenges throughout time. Witness what the Roman statesman, Cicero, who lived from 106 BC to 43 BC, wrote all those centuries ago. We observe these obstacles in our every day lives in the 21st century and as you can read in his […]

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Let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm…

Post author By J Johnson
Post date June 8, 2019
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The poet of my youth was one Gordon Sumner, aka Sting. The first concert I ever went to was Dream of the Blue Turtles, his debut solo album. A bit odd for a kid my age as all my other friends went to the Journey, AC/DC and KISS concerts, and I loved all that music […]

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A mom for all seasons

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Post date May 11, 2019
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If many of you were to write a blog about your mom and titled it ” A mom for all seasons” I suspect your story might be about one special woman who showered you with unconditional love, who was your rock, your inspiration and a guiding light in your life. Still others of you might […]

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Surviving change without going ape

Post author By J Johnson
Post date April 3, 2019
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How many times have we left for work, fully intending to play the part of the ever-composed, quietly observant, always benevolent Jane Goodhall, only to find ourselves at the end of the day, flinging feces at our teammates in a primitive display of dominance and one-upmanship? “You cannot get through a single day without having an […]

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What are you choosing to take with you?

Post author By J Johnson
Post date March 30, 2019
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Do you need all that junk you are carrying around? How much of what you encounter every day is because of what you choose to take with you everywhere you go? Luke Skywalker: What’s in there? (Motioning toward a cave) Yoda: Only what you take with you. (Luke grabs his belt with lightsaber and blaster). […]

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Pushing people into the chasm of tension as an act of service.

Post author By J Johnson
Post date March 16, 2019
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Once, I thought all tension was “bad” or “negative.” I was under the assumption that making others uncomfortable (or my making a mistake) was always a “mark against me on the scoreboard of life.” This could be because I am innately, at least according to many of the personality inventories I’ve taken the last 40 […]

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The “Colonel” Of Truth and our bias in the war against him.

Post author By J Johnson
Post date February 16, 2019
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Why do I write this blog? What is this whole #four4soaring thing about anyway? As I ponder this question I am assaulted by what Steven Furtick calls the Chatterbox in my own head: You are writing this blog out of ego. You want to be liked. You crave attention. You don’t really care about anyone […]

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Is blind faith what it’s all about?

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Post date February 8, 2019
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Faith is not blind. It sees. Where we falter, it renews. I have always been fascinated by dogma. Fundamentalism is something of a preoccupation of mine. So much so that I used to equate those two things with Faith and in particular following Jesus. I used to think that there was a requirement to believe […]

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Why do we run from things rather than toward something greater than ourselves?

Post author By J Johnson
Post date February 2, 2019
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What is it about our human nature that is so stoked in fear that we are constantly looking for any excuse to find the exit? What saturates our brains in flight or fight neuropathy so much that it feels like we are always either defending our flank or leaping like an antelope for the safety […]

Tags #bettertogethersc, #Christ, #circlesbetterthanrows, #four4soaring, #fourforsoaring, #growth, #lifelessons, #soar, #weneedeachother, Leadership, Love

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Slapped in the face with the mirror of “for” vs “from.”

Post author By J Johnson
Post date January 21, 2019
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I write two blogs. This one and one for work. This one is called Four4Soaring, as you know, and the one at work is called Friday Food For Thought. I suppose, something about “F” sounds and the word “for” just speak to me. I think it is because I do my best to be ” […]

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The Payoff and Price of Flourishing

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Post date January 12, 2019
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My brother in law and I were joking about my relationship with my kids over the holiday break. He is the cool uncle, the fun one, the world traveler that takes them out and shows them how to have fun in the world and how to live in the moment. I am very thankful for […]

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Grow in unpredictable ways

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Post date January 1, 2019
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As I walk my dogs each day I am struck by the beautiful oaks my neighborhood offers as majestic diversions along the roadway. One such oak must have had an interesting history because it has somehow found its balance much like a waiter with an outstretched arm holding a platter? I sought to capture a […]

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#Abundance

Post author By J Johnson
Post date December 24, 2018
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I follow this guy on Instagram who posts quotes the way I often do. He issued a challenge the other day to sum up my 2018 in one word. The first word that came to mind was blessed. I thought about sharing that word because it fits so perfectly and then I challenged myself to […]

Tags #abundance, #bettertogether, #Christ, #christmas, #christmas2018, #christmaseve, #christmasgift, #gift, #heavenlyfather, #theworldneedsus, #weneedeachother, #weneedgod, Faith, Inspiration, Light, Love

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Flocking around the Christmas Tree

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Post date December 21, 2018
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So we bought this thing called a “flocked tree” and I was thinking…someday I would love to Meet the Flockers. Who are these people that put flock – some sort of glue like substance that mimics snow- on the trees? I decided to build a set of questions to ask about these mysterious creatures and […]

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Brand and The Why

What is the four in Four4Soaring?

Post author By J Johnson
Post date December 19, 2018
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An open hand

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Post date December 15, 2018
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Read the full Story on Medium “John, when your hand is open you can give things away and at the same time make room for more.”

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We have a New Banner Logo!

Post author By J Johnson
Post date December 8, 2018
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Thankful ain’t what YOU think

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Post date November 17, 2018
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I used to dream of the ability to shower people with gifts that I thought would thank them properly and adequately. I used to pine tirelessly to imagine a way of thanking my bride for all she did to lift me up with “a big house” to quote Elton’s poet, Taupin: “where we both could […]

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Pepop: A Decorated Veteran of the Game of Life

Post author By J Johnson
Post date November 10, 2018
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Some months ago I wrote a story about my grandfather and how he taught me how to be full of CHIT: Curious | Humble | Intentional | Teachable. Today, I want to talk about this World War II veteran and how he has lived a life as a gritty hero, not just of World War […]

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Hello in There?! The call to seek connection and be known.

Post author By J Johnson
Post date October 28, 2018
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Who do you let in? Who do you seek out? How often do you stop, cup your hands to your mouth and cry: Hello in There? We all yearn to be known. We have this inborn appetite to be seen. We are also prompted to connect with others. The opposite, isolation, is both physically and […]

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A Tribute to Tim the Writer

Post author By J Johnson
Post date October 24, 2018
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On October 21, 2018, I was one of four people asked to share some of my thoughts with some of the gathered family and friends of Tim Sader at only the first of two services. The following is the first draft of what I shared. As usual, on the day this was shared the words […]

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May Your Torch Burn Long and Prosper

Post author By J Johnson
Post date October 18, 2018
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According to his parents May 19, 2011, was a Tuesday, it was the day they lost their first son and it was a day that his brother had the hardest time writing his blog, Tuesday’s Torch, but he wrote it anyway. He wrote it dutifully, beautifully and eloquently for 9 years. He wrote it to […]

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Once Upon a Time, There Were Three Little Girls…and I was their Bosley

Post author By J Johnson
Post date October 13, 2018
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Our childhood wasn’t all Charlie’s Angels and Bosley to be sure! We rallied around each other when times were tough. I call them my war buddies because we’ve seen and been through some scary stuff together….I can see when someone has the potential to grow from obscurity to the highest heights… My sisters are such people…read more: click on pic or link in bio

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We DON’T Get To…

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Post date October 6, 2018
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Today, I feel compelled to write about what we DON’T GET TO do. We don’t get to be more than we were created to be. ..Read more at four4soaring.com

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Change your lens to see more light.

Post author By J Johnson
Post date September 29, 2018
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Change your lens on life and change your life (and maybe others?) for the better. Read more at http://four4soaring.com .

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The Struggle is Real…Sometimes…

Post author By J Johnson
Post date September 22, 2018
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I am a restless person. You might even call me “Restless by Nature.” That is not quite as cool as “Naughty By Nature” but I am anything but cool. This restlessness is all too big a part of being human. We struggle from the moment we emerge from the womb. If you believe Maslow’s hierarchy (or […]

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Convey your idea, mission, or project through the power of story.

Post author By J Johnson
Post date September 15, 2018
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One of the most powerful ideas I have heard recently is that when you share a concept, in reality, you as the presenter are not the hero, your audience is the hero. Nancy Duarte shares this concept with us in her TED Talk as she reveals her passions for presentation. This is how she describes […]

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People are more important than things.

Post author By J Johnson
Post date September 14, 2018
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As I prepare to sit through this storm my thoughts and prayers are not for all the THINGS that are already lost and will be lost.

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