I completed a 12-hour walk last week during a solo mini-sabbatical in Toronto. The 12-hour walk movement was started by Colin O’Brady. The purpose of my walk was about discernment: what my best next steps in life should be, so I planned my walk to be filled with beauty and connection. In the end, I received many more insights than I expected. It was a beautiful trek.

Every day, when I looked at my board, I took concrete steps: book hotels, flights, and tours in Toronto. All week, I walked everywhere, all day. This trip allowed me to disconnect from everything and tune in to myself. It was exactly what I needed. I’m feeling refreshed, inspired, and excited about what’s coming next in my life.

..it burst into villages, cut off roads and destroyed highways and bridges, energy sources and transmission lines it reached the cities and entered families, sacred areas and educational centres it struck at justice and filled the public administration with victims and it singled out as an enemy anyone who was not on the list of friends.

Change management is hard. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying. And, if they're not lying, they're naïve. In my years of experience in change management, I've heard plenty of horror stories. One of the most common is when people think the change management professional can wave a magic wand, send a communication and make change happen. They believe all you need to do is email, make a phone call, have a leader issue an edict or post in a chat room and people will fall into line. This is not the case. Change management is a complex process that requires careful planning and execution. You will fail if we do not prepare for the challenges of getting humans to change.

1. Remember what you wanted to be, start there, do that
   
2. Go with the flow. Every step (good and bad) is destiny
   
3. Life happens when you were planning something else
   
4. Leap and the net will appear. Let go and let it be

Most donors want their money to go directly and wholly to programming. The whole truth, however, is there are costs beyond paying teachers, buying materials, procuring, and servicing instruments, replenishing media and getting students to the center. Often, donated dollars to produce the educational experiences cannot stretch to cover the organization’s administrative costs. Donations restricted to programming cannot be used to pay for electricity, heat, cooling, furniture, security, etc. Give more.

We tried something different when we realized that regular high school wasn’t working for our son with ADD. So we enrolled him in a military boarding school several states away, which has been an excellent fit for him.

I had a random thought about my mom. Her name is Herlin. It occurs to me that I do not personally know anyone else by that name. So, I looked it up...

This is a retelling of an incident that occurred when I was in my mid-teens. That age when I was an absolute stinker of a human being.

A CFO in one of my professional groups shared with me recently: "The leadership of my company will not change. Which change management model should I apply?"

It first came to my attention when the Iceberg from the Titanic used it in his h.i.l.a.r.i.o.u.s SNL skit.