How Can You Be Seen for Your Gifts?
The best present I received for my 55th birthday party extravaganza (six and half years ago) was when my friend Ben Davis called me a "social alchemist." To be seen and articulated for who I was sent a jolt of lightning through my body and created a raison d’etre (a reason for being) ever since.
ore recently, my Santa Fe friend Doug Lynam told me, “You are a mensch, a mentor, and a midwife of meaning,” and, once again, I could feel the electricity channel through my body.
Make no mistake about it, flattery doesn’t catalyze a spark like this. It only feed
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