Wisdom, Leadership & Success
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February 3, 2022
What are the three best values for success and happiness?
It’s simple.
Just live three values: Seek Wisdom, Practice Love and Get Results until they become habits, part of your very being, so you naturally develop the high trust, high performance relationships that bring success and happiness.
That’s it. Covenant Leadership. It will give you the best chance for success and happiness in all areas of your life.
How does it work?
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June 28, 2021 • 4 mins
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A lot of people get anxious because they don't know how to start a conversation with someone new.
With Covenant Leadership, if you can remember just 3 things, you can master a simple approach to starting great conversations and relationships with anyone you meet. Whether it is at work, in the community, or even with a romantic interest.
Whether you are comfortable starting conversations with strang...
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June 11, 2021 • 5 mins
There's something you can start doing right now that will profoundly change your life and the lives of those you love.
It will give you the best chance for happiness and success in life, and it will change the world while you're doing it.
It doesn't cost a nickel. It doesn't require any special gear or a membership.
What can you do that will profoundly change your life?
Seek Every Opportunity to Practice Love
It is simple. Sta...
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June 3, 2021 • 7 mins
How can you achieve happiness and success in life?
Some people say happiness is all about how much money you have. Other people say happiness is about your social status or education level.
The best science tells us something very different.
In an earlier blog, we talked about the meaning of life and your purpose in life, which is happiness, fulfillment. In this blog, we’re going to talk about how you can achieve happiness and s...
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May 18, 2021 • 2 mins
What is the Meaning of Life?
What's the meaning of life? What's your purpose in life?
Some people say there is no meaning to life. Other people say that the meaning of life is whatever you want it to be.
But I think there's a much better answer.
Welcome to Real Talk About Life where we use Covenant Leadership to develop the relationships that bring happiness and success in life, and change the world.
What is Happiness?
What's...
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October 30, 2020 • 6 mins
From our earlier episodes, we know that happiness in life comes from good, high-trust, covenant relationships.
To develop good relationships, practice the three Covenant Virtues: Seek wisdom, practice love, and get results. The more people trust your wisdom, that you love them and that you can get results, the better your relationships and the stronger your leadership.
The more you practice these virtues, the more they will becom...
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October 23, 2020 • 4 mins
We’ve all read dozens of articles giving us eight things we can do to be a better leader or parent or person.
Most of them seem like good tips. By the time I read three or four articles, I have a list of 25-30 things I am supposed to do to be a better leader. And that’s after just a few days of reading.
Maybe you are one of those people who can remember and do 25 things at the same time. If so, more power to you. I am not one of ...
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October 16, 2020 • 7 mins
Welcome to the sixth episode in our series on how you can achieve happiness and success in life.
From our earlier episodes, we know that Happiness and success in life come from high-trust, covenant relationships.
In our last episode, we said that the best way of developing good relationships is to live the three virtues:
Seek Wisdom
Practice Love
Get Results
The more people trust your wisdom, that you love them, a...
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October 8, 2020 • 7 mins
It’s simple. Happiness and success come from high-trust, covenant relationships. We know that from our previous blogs-podcasts.
So, what is the best way to develop good relationships?
Just do three things:
Seek Wisdom
Practice Love
Get Results
The more people trust your wisdom, that you love them, and that you get things done, the stronger your relationships.
In this episode, we’re going to focus on wisdom and why its cr...
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September 22, 2020 • 6 mins
I am one of those people who sometimes learns things the hard way—by making mistakes. Many of the best leadership lessons I have learned came while I served as an AV-8B Harrier pilot in the Marine Corps.
Sometimes the leadership lessons came in installments. In this case, the first installment came from The Cow and the second from Buckwheat.
The Cow
I was a young Marine officer and new AV-8B Harrier pilot who had just reported to ...
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September 17, 2020 • 9 mins
In our last blog, we talked about how happiness and fulfillment come from good, high-quality relationships.
In this piece, we'll talk about the three basic ways to understand relationships, and find that covenant relationships give us the best chance for happiness and success.
Three Types of Relationships
Football, basketball and golf are all different paradigms for playing a sport. They all use the word “team”, but they mean diff...
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September 9, 2020 • 7 mins
Recent events have put Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the headlines. Companies, government and organizations are engaging CRT without any idea of where it comes from, what it believes or why it is profoundly dangerous.
CRT is one of many theories—including Critical Legal Theory, Intersectionality, de-constructionism, Gender Theory, etc.—that have their roots deep in postmodern thinking that started in the mid 1900's. Postmodern thi...
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September 8, 2020 • 8 mins
HAPPINESS AND RELATIONSHIP
We’ve got an 80-year Harvard study that says happiness comes from good relationships. There’s a good reason for that.
As human beings, we are biologically wired for relationship. Relationship is a fundamental part of our human nature and DNA.
Having good relationships fulfills our human nature. That’s why good relationships bring happiness. That’s why we thrive when we are in good relationships. As the ...
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September 2, 2020 • 6 mins
HAPPINESS COMES FROM GOOD RELATIONSHIPS
Harvard University has been conducting the Study on Adult Development for more than 80 years. It includes Harvard undergrads from the 1930’s and disadvantaged Boston youths from the early 1940’s—and their children. The purpose was to find out what makes happy and health lives.
The ongoing study has tracked the lives of thousands of people in over a hundred dimensions including their lifestyl...
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August 25, 2020 • 4 mins
Life can be intense, fast-paced, and complicated.
Everywhere you turn, there’s pressure to be successful.
At work, we’re supposed to have cool jobs that pay well, and are socially relevant and fulfilling. We’re supposed to be ambitious, enthusiastic leaders moving quickly up the career ladder.
As parents, we are supposed to get our kids into the best schools, and ranked programs for sports or dance or music—or all three simultan...
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April 28, 2020 • 14 mins
By Pete Bowen and Bailey Bowen
SON OF A SHARECROPPER
In mid-February—just two months and a lifetime ago—my wife and I were in her hometown of Dothan, Alabama, for her high school reunion and to spend time with her father.
My father-in-law is the son of a sharecropper without much formal education. He grew up in one of the very poorest areas of the US, his bedroom the covered porch of a country house. He became a union pipe-fitter...
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April 20, 2020 • 12 mins
By Pete Bowen and Bailey Bowen
I learned a few important lessons last week that some might find helpful.
On March 17, government-ordered Covid-19 shutdowns reduced my consulting business income to $0 overnight.
The same week, two of my three daughters were laid off from their jobs.
At the time, we were told that the shutdown would be a couple weeks. It would be tough and painful, but we would get through it.
Though I had no inc...
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April 7, 2020 • 12 mins
Welcome back to our series, Wisdom and Love vs. Postmodern Power. We’ve been talking about why we have so much conflict in our society and unhappiness in our lives.
In this session, we’ll discuss postmodern ideas about relationships, power, rules, freedom and how we develop the young.
Remember the three keys to understanding the Postmodern Paradigm:
There is no Truth or Morality or facts. Everything in life is In-the-Eye-of-th...
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April 2, 2020 • 14 mins
Welcome back to our blog series Wisdom and Love vs. Postmodern Power. We’ve been talking about why we have so much conflict in our society and unhappiness in our lives.
The primary reason is that we have three conflicting understandings of life at work in society.
It’s like trying to play a game of basketball-football-golf. I call it basket-foot-golf.
The conflicting rules make it impossible to combine them into a single game. I...
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March 23, 2020 • 6 mins
We’re in tough times right now.
Two of my three daughters were laid off last Friday.
After a well-worded inquiry, my oldest daughter avoided a lay off and transitioned to a new role in her company. Manager of the 3rd shift disinfecting team.
My mother is in the late stages of Alzheimer’s, and inaccessible in her board and care. The good news is that she doesn’t know what’s going on. The bad news is that I may have held her hand ...
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