David Deck

Overarching Vision

Band together AND become ONE with the few who are CORE-centered and committed to purpose.

Purpose

Collectively become "fully alive" in alignment with St. Irenaeus' decklaration. 

Unifiying Strategies

LEARN

15 hours a week reading, watching and writing is the expectation.

Shadow another builder every quarter

EARN

Prepare for every practice with the intention of moving them forward, perpetual improvement is the aim.

Choose responsibility over empathy, challenge them more.

RETURN

Give this gift to those you are called to build into regardless of pay.

Be giving of my financial blessings in a myriad of ways.

Scorecard of Significance

  • Writing words of affirmation to oneself.

  • Little wins when doing the real–hard–work on one’s self.

  • Big wins when taking action in alignment with one's OPUS.

  • Someone grabbing the reigns and leading a practice.

  • Movement towards deeply connecting and disconnecting.

  • ONE referral.

Melody Lines to Guide My Way

  • My only ambition has been to engrave my name at the feet of great people and in service of grand ideas.  (Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi)

  •  My happiness is outside the reach of my enemies.

  •  Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.  (Lao-Tzu)

  •  Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage. (Anais Nin)

  •  Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.  (Shakespeare)

  •  Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine. (re: Alan Turing)

  •  We're ONE, but we're not the same. (U2)

  •  He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.  (Nietzsche)

  •  Leaders can let you fail and yet not be a failure.  (Gen. McCrystal)

  •  There's a kind of faith to move from one note to the other.  (Bono)

  •  Vulnerability is the birth place of innovation, creativity and change.  (Brene Brown)

  •  Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.  (Billy Graham)