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Deleted but certainly not Depleted

I have taken the next radical step in my purge of the past. It feels freeing, enthralling and edgy. I went into my website at www.davidzinger.com that I started on November 11, 2005. I proceeded this morning to delete every blog post I wrote — a total of 1836 posts on engagement and strength based leadership. I also deleted over 1700 images, most of them my own, that accompanied these posts. There is no backup! I plan to embark on a refresh of what I will do in the future on April Fool’s Day. I do not know where I am headed but I feel that I am moving forward after letting go of the past.

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Feeling Like Rembrandt: Living in the Midst of a Transition

At 69, I have gone through many transitions in my life and I currently find myself in a new one. For the last three days I have been throwing out tons of files and articles related to my work and I have purged my shelves of almost all of my work-related books. Whenever I do this, and I have done this a few times in the past, it is an early barometer of a looming change, even though I do not know the ultimate form the change will take. The process feels enriching rather than depleting or disconcerting. I know that all transitions begin with an end — often followed by a muddled neutral zone before arriving at the new beginning. Here are four 3-word lines that are informing me in the art of this process: 1. Not done yet.2. What comes next?3. I don’t know!4. And that’s okay. I

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