Join Me in Creating a Culture of Purpose, Love, and Meaning
Charles Newnam
Strategy Principal Director, Organizational Development Solutions @ Accenture | Culture & Transformation Lead | Elevating Leadership, Team & People Dynamics
My life's mission is to change the culture to a more love and meaning-filled one by transforming people, teams, and organizations.?
If this mission resonates with you, then please read the following and consider joining me in my efforts. Whether it's through my work as a management consultant focusing on leadership and culture, assisting veterans in discovering their life purpose, or engaging with diverse leaders in sacred places around the world through Wisdom Councils, there are a multitude of ways to contribute. If the message below speaks to you, please get in touch. Let’s create a new story for humanity.
I wrote the below last month after spending a few hours contemplating the artwork on the largest neolithic art collection in the world at Newgrange, Ireland. The ancient spirals have long been with me even before I knew they were etched into those rocks 5,000 years ago. As I look out at our world and our country, I think communities of people that long for real change are the only solution to our existential challenges. I hope you enjoy the below.
What comes next, and why won't it come faster? I have this life mission, penned in 2018, and sometimes it feels to me that I'm no further along than the day I wrote it. Perhaps that's because God's (Universe, Great Spirit, Energy) time spirals, and my time feels linear. I feel like I'm always in transition. Admittedly, it gets tiring after a while.
For some reason, this time, I'm being asked to transition parts of my expression, and I'm not sure why or how. My deepest fear is to live a life underneath the thumb of power, live someone else’s life, or live a life dead inside. My greatest joy is to perform my best, purest, and highest work, and no one even knows my name. I'm not afraid to be known; it's just not necessary to do the work.
To me there’s so much irony that the Angel With No Name brought a baby into the world that was eventually blinded and pushed a grain mill for his captors. Perhaps this mythical spiral tells two stories at once: a story that requires the dark so that light may be seen. My greatest joy might lie in going through my deepest fears.
I'm lucky, though. I can see in the dark and have a soul-pack with me. Some of us rest in the dirt by the fire, back to back, watching out for the community. So, what am I watching for exactly, as I spend my time as a scout on the edge of my community? I suppose I'm looking for the new myth, the myth that will save our souls and evolve humanity. A myth that will drive people towards love and purpose, a myth that will be the salve to our lonely hearts.
I need help, though. I need others. I'm lucky enough to have a few I trust. I need thinkers that can help me soar higher, because no one can soar higher than they are able to think. I need people that would be fine dying tonight because they know the only time is now and that they are living on borrowed time. I need people that are unstoppable warriors with an indomitable spirit, warriors of love.
We have limited time. The Earth will move, the cosmic cycle will continue; some will return tonight, and some will come back anew. The Great Cycle is unconscious; it will devour everyone in the end. Now is our moment as we walk this Earth with the gift and curse of consciousness.
To my soul-pack and my future community, as far as what you'll get from me, you'll get a promise to continue this work, my work, God's work, until my breath one day returns to nothing but air.
Executive Coach for Social Impact Leaders | Nonprofit Founder & Executive Director
5 个月Charles Newnam - thank you for your bold vision, your wise counsel, and your enduring friendship. I am honored to scout with you and to walk alongside you in this work. ?????
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5 个月Where do I sign up Charles Newnam ?
Charles Newnam thank you for the inspiration, commitment, and your enduring friendship. These spirals, crafted over 5000 years ago by hands unknown, hold mysteries for us to behold and unpack, urging us to dream into our new mythology. Honored to walk this path with you.
Leader by Design, Badass by Nature | Helping you lead change with bravery by aligning heads, hearts, and hands to create tiny rebellions and big impact everyday
5 个月I love this and look forward to our paths crossing again soon.