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- All Growth Isn't Bigger - The Consciousness of Business Growth - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2013 from Barry LipscombAll growth isn’t bigger and continuous growth isn’t sustainable. Across nature, there is a natural limit to growth. It’s about efficiency as well as the consumption and allocation of resources. By contrast, out of control growth is known as cancer – the uncontrolled growth of a tumorous mass. ...
Views: 1160 - Sense and Respond - A Model For Navigating Uncertainty - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2013 from Barry LipscombIt is getting more and more difficult to plan ahead with any degree of accuracy and relevance as our ever-changing world continues to move more quickly and develop ever greater complexity. We need a new means of engaging that my mentor, Dr. Michael Picucci, describes as a creative and fluid ...
Views: 1057(1 vote) - Re-Visioning Our Future - by Submitted on Jan 10, 2013 from Barry LipscombIt’s that time of year again when we look back to what we accomplished over the past year and forward to what we wish to do in the next twelve months. For many years this has been an important time of reflection and goal setting for me but this year I’m approaching it a bit differently – by ...
Views: 972(1 vote) - Sustainable Prosperity - The Consciousness of Wealth - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2013 from Barry LipscombI often look about the world and see a vast discrepancy in the distribution of resources – those who have more than they could ever possibly consume and other places where just a portion of those resources would make a tremendous difference in people’s lives and well being. It seems we have ...
Views: 1510(1 vote) - Conscious Business Practices : Acting With Intention - by Submitted on Dec 31, 2012 from Barry LipscombThe Conscious Business takes a broader perspective and with deeper perception, allowing it to act more intentionally. In this post, we look at the remaining conscious business practices – those that reflect how the organization acts. Shifting its focus from external behaviors to inner ...
Views: 1335(3 votes) - Conscious Business Practices : A Deeper Perception - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from Barry LipscombThere are at least seven conscious business practices that emerge as the organization shifts its focus from external behaviors to inner resources. At a high level the organization broadens it perspective, deepens its perception as its actions become more intentional. This article looks at ...
Views: 1103(1 vote) - Conscious Business Practices: The Broader Perspective - by Submitted on Dec 17, 2012 from Barry LipscombI recently wrote that the Conscious Business operates from a place of deep wisdom that naturally gives rise to the conscious practices that generate sustainable results. It’s a paradox where the organization shifts its attention to inner resources and the seemingly external behaviors begin to ...
Views: 1087(1 vote) - A Conscious Business Is More Than Conscious Practices - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2012 from Barry LipscombMany years ago the company I was working for at the time began to engage various culture shaping initiatives. As a “consciousness nerd” my curiosity was piqued as I looked forward to being exposed to new theories and perhaps a deeper understanding of my own nature. Unfortunately, it was a ...
Views: 1057(3 votes) - Three Unconscious Practices In Business Today - by Submitted on Nov 24, 2012 from Barry LipscombFew people would disagree when I say that our current business model is no longer working – and may, in fact, be broken. The debate begins, though, with trying to diagnose and then fix it. I propose there are three unconscious practices in business today that, if reversed, would result in a ...
Views: 1022(1 vote) - Uncovering Our Light: 12 Steps And The Shaman’s Journey - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2011 from Barry LipscombA spiritual awakening is simply the awareness that we are more than just a physical body, with a thinking mind. We have a spiritual nature too, that many traditions speak of as a light. Yet lots of us no longer have access to that light. Addicts and Alcoholics have used drugs and alcohol ...
Views: 1778(1 vote) - Sustainability Part VI: A View From The Mountaintop - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2011 from Barry LipscombOn the eve of his untimely death, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke the prophetic words, “I've been to the mountaintop. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.” Dr. King’s promised ...
Views: 972 - Sustainability Part V: Cottage Industries In A Village Community - by Submitted on Feb 27, 2011 from Barry LipscombWhile the tops down approach of rewilding our governments and corporations (see last week’s blog) is a necessary step on the path to achieving a sustainable existence. It is not enough. We also need individual actions. We must actively participate if the change we desire is to manifest. We ...
Views: 1408(1 vote) - Sustainability Part IV: Rewilding From The Top Down - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2011 from Barry LipscombRewilding is a concept in Conservation Biology whereby reintroducing keystone predatory species into a particular environment, resilience of the ecosystem is restored, and even maximized. This theory recognizes our ecosystems are delicately balanced and can easily get thrown into disarray. ...
Views: 1198(1 vote) - Sustainability Part III: A New World Order - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2011 from Barry LipscombThere are really just a few things we could do in order to begin living sustainably, but they require the huge first step of honoring our place in the world and finding harmony with our environment – a significant and profound shift in how we live. It’s more than a green movement of conserving ...
Views: 1450(1 vote) - Sustainability Part II: The Spiritual Solution - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2011 from Barry LipscombOur sustained existence calls for being in right relationship with the world, respecting our home in this planet while cohabitating with all aspects of life and nature – in harmony, not domination. It’s living from the inside out, with great concern for the future and those who will inhabit ...
Views: 1049 - Rising Tides Lift All Boats - by Submitted on Feb 05, 2011 from Barry LipscombSince we are all one, connected within the greater energy field, we affect each other through our thoughts, beliefs and intentions. This affecting and influencing occurs whether we are aware of it or not. However, when we let go of our own will and allow the divine, organizing intelligence of ...
Views: 1527(1 vote) - Sustainability Part I: A Call To Action - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2011 from Barry LipscombWe have reached a point if we look honestly and fully we will see that the way we live today is not sustainable. We consume too much, work too hard, creating too much trash and rapidly depleting the earth’s non-renewable resources. In short, we do not respect and live within the natural flow ...
Views: 1121(1 vote) - A Manifesto For Living Consciously - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2011 from Barry LipscombBecause I believe in the power of love, I first love myself; then seeing myself in every person I encounter, I love and experience them in a way that builds trust. Because I believe we are all connected, I honor that connection and recognize I am the source of everything I ...
Views: 1121 - All Things Are One Thing - by Submitted on Jan 18, 2011 from Barry LipscombMany eastern sages and traditions tell us that all things are one thing. And if all things are one thing, then we must each be that one thing. We have the illusion of being an individual only because we are looking at the world through the eyes of that individual. It’s like Russian nesting ...
Views: 1184(1 vote) - A Radical New Way of Living - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2011 from Barry LipscombMost of us carry old habits, thoughts and beliefs from the limited perspective of our experience that have us locked in a cycle of the past repeating itself. However, when we release these old thoughts we open to the possibilities in the present moment. Likewise when we take responsibility in ...
Views: 1304 - The Power of Intention - by Submitted on Jan 14, 2011 from Barry LipscombEverything is energy. And our intention is the force that influences and sets this energy into form. We co-create within the un-manifested potential through our intentions. When we are conscious of this, it is simply a matter of moving this energy, shifting it into the forms we ...
Views: 1681(3 votes) - The Present Moment of Now - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2011 from Barry LipscombThe present moment is all there ever is – everything else is only thought, memories of the past and visions of the future. There is a constant dialogue with the past and the future here in the present, with the unfolding future informing what occurs each moment and our ever changing perception ...
Views: 1265(1 vote) - Fate or Destiny? - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2010 from Barry LipscombEvery condition is the result of a thought and everything we think contributes to our success – or lacking. When we consciously choose to let old thoughts go, we open ourselves to new possibilities. In this means we are able to spontaneously change our reality when we change our thoughts, ...
Views: 1342(1 vote) - Heal, Transform and Re-Create - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2010 from Barry LipscombHealing is simply coming into right relationship with everything in and around us – to be made whole. We have the ability to transform or heal anything within our own energy field as creation is always re-creating itself in each moment. It’s just a matter of changing the distortion of energy or ...
Views: 1221 - Letting Go Into The Flow - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2010 from Barry LipscombThere is something within us that wants to be whole and when we give it just a bit of attention it multiplies. That is Grace. The un-manifested potential has an organizing intelligence if we give up our own will, letting go into the flow of life. It’s like the large tracks of a tank or ...
Views: 1288(3 votes) - The Role of Evolution WITHIN Our Lifetime - by Submitted on Nov 22, 2010 from Barry LipscombDeepak Chopra explains the nature of consciousness as a movie reel where there are multiple frames with a space between each … much like computer binary code … a series of “on” and “off” switches. I find this description quite inspiring and helpful in advancing the possibility for spontaneous ...
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