{"id":223,"date":"2006-11-04T19:32:23","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T19:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/04\/wounds_to_the_s\/"},"modified":"2006-11-04T19:32:23","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T19:32:23","slug":"wounds_to_the_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Wounds to the Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wonder if you are carrying a wounded soul?<\/p>\n

We start out with such ideals — entrepreneurs in particular, if
\nyou class yourself in that category. But life has a way of presenting us with
\nsuch huge dilemmas.<\/p>\n

I was moved to think about this after reading Ian Mitroff<\/a> this
\nmorning. In the course of his research, Mitroff interviewed a number of CEOs.
\nHe tells the story of <\/p>\n

\n

Charles (not his real name) is a typical CEO of a midsize, highly
\nsuccessful manufacturing business on the East Coast [of the USA]. In his early
\nfifties, in good physical shape, and happily married with three "great kids."
\nhe has an enormous zeal for living and for life in general. He is quite prous
\nof the entrepreneurial skills that enabled the creation of his business and
\ntha have kept it fresh, exciting, and highly competitive over the years. Nonetheless,
\nit didn’t take long in the interview for a deep wound in his soul to surface.<\/p>\n

"A few years ago, I had an epiphany, I realized — or better yet, I could
\nno longer deny — that the chemicals I was using to manufacture and treat
\nthe furniture I was making were highly toxic. They were extremely dangerous
\nto the environment. To my dismay, I realised that I had become an unwitting
\nagent of evil, Needless to say, this does not sit well with my self-concept." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What do we do with such dilemmas?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wonder if you are carrying a wounded soul? We start out with such ideals — entrepreneurs in particular, if you class yourself in that category. But life has a way of presenting us with such huge dilemmas. I was moved to think about this after reading Ian Mitroff this morning. In the course of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}