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Intellect · Days 11–20Day 20

The CEO Words · Three layers, one law

The Law of Prowess

Jewel of the day · Nephrite Jade. C is who she is. E is how she works. O is what she holds and increases.

Spoken on this day

Day Twenty is the last day of the Intellect — the close of the season that began on Day Eleven — and it segues straight into Intuitiveness. Everything the mind gathered is now handed to the nerve. Intellect ends in courage, because knowing a thing and doing it are two different women.

The Adventure CEO is courageous, and how she moves is to endeavor — she is trying, attempting, having a go. And she can endeavor because she has an occasion: a moment, an opening, a day that presents itself. No occasion, no attempt. She learns to see the moment and step into it.

The Architect becomes challengeable — a woman who can be met, tested, taken on, and does not fold when she is. Endeavor matures into encounter: she stops merely attempting and starts meeting the thing face to face. What she becomes is an overcomer. Jump the hurdles or walk around them — either way you are over.

The Sovereign becomes cheveril — kid leather. Supple, pliable, worked soft, and it will not tear. Deep roots underneath, so she knows how to encounter, how to stand in wind and storm and give without breaking.

From that leather she emboldens — she puts courage into other people, which is the whole meaning of the word. And what she is increasing is overcomings, plural: a ledger of things already overcome, each one making the next one smaller.

Layer One

Courageous · Endeavor · Occasion

Layer Two

Challengeable · Encounter · Overcomer

Layer Three

Cheveril · Embolden · Overcomings

Layer One

The Adventure CEO

The Novice · She makes a thing profitable

She is courageous, and she endeavors — she tries, she attempts, she has a go at it. And she can only endeavor because she has an occasion: a moment presented to her that she is willing to step into.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Courageous

adjective · attribute of God

Willing to act while the fear is still in the room — heart, not the absence of fear.

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  1. 01Having or showing courage; brave
  2. 02Able to face danger, difficulty or pain without turning back
  3. 03Acting rightly when it costs something to do so
  4. 04Not deterred by the risk of loss
  5. 05Bold in undertaking what others avoid
  6. 06Firm in spirit under pressure
  7. 07From cor, the heart — full of heart
  8. 08Willing to be the first to move
  9. 09Steady in the presence of fear rather than free of it
  10. 10Daring, but on purpose and for a reason
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E

The Execution · HOW she moves

Endeavor

verb · the doing of it

To try in earnest — to put yourself into the attempt before you know it will work.

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  1. 01To try hard to achieve something
  2. 02To make a serious, sustained effort
  3. 03To attempt, especially something difficult
  4. 04To strive toward a result
  5. 05To exert yourself toward a set aim
  6. 06To undertake a task with intent to finish it
  7. 07To labour at a thing rather than wish for it
  8. 08To apply effort deliberately, not casually
  9. 09To venture — to put effort at risk
  10. 10To do your utmost with what is in your hand
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Occasion

noun · the office and the resource

The moment that presents itself — the opening you endeavor into.

momentopportunitytimechanceeventopeningjunctureinstancereasoncause
  1. 01A particular time when something happens
  2. 02A suitable moment or opportunity for a thing
  3. 03An event or gathering of some importance
  4. 04The cause or reason that brings a thing about
  5. 05A juncture — a point at which action becomes possible
  6. 06A special or notable time worth rising to
  7. 07The circumstance that gives an act its opening
  8. 08A moment offered rather than made
  9. 09The right season for an attempt
  10. 10A need or ground for doing something
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Layer Two

The Architect CEO

The Builder · She builds the house that holds it

Challengeable now — she can be met and tested without folding. Endeavor becomes encounter: she meets the thing face to face. What she becomes is an overcomer. Jump the hurdles or walk around them; either way, you are over.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Challengeable

adjective · attribute of God

Able to be met, tested and questioned — and still standing when the test is over.

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  1. 01Open to being challenged, questioned or contested
  2. 02Able to be called to account without collapsing
  3. 03Willing to have her claim examined
  4. 04Answerable — she will take the question
  5. 05Contestable: she does not hide behind position
  6. 06Able to be summoned to a trial of strength
  7. 07Prepared to be tested, and expecting to be
  8. 08Unafraid of scrutiny because there is substance underneath
  9. 09One who invites the hard question rather than dodging it
  10. 10Fit to be matched against something
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E

The Execution · HOW she moves

Encounter

verb · the doing of it

To meet the thing face to face — no longer attempting it from a distance.

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  1. 01To meet, especially unexpectedly
  2. 02To come up against a difficulty or opposition
  3. 03To be faced with something and deal with it
  4. 04To meet an adversary in conflict
  5. 05To come into the presence of a person or a force
  6. 06To experience something directly rather than in theory
  7. 07To confront what is in the road
  8. 08To run into and engage rather than avoid
  9. 09To meet head-on, at close range
  10. 10To take the meeting instead of postponing it
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Overcomer

noun · the office and the resource

One who gets over — hurdle jumped or hurdle walked around, she ends up on the other side.

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  1. 01One who prevails over difficulty or opposition
  2. 02A person who gets past what was set against her
  3. 03A conqueror — one who wins through rather than around the truth
  4. 04One who surmounts an obstacle
  5. 05A survivor who did not merely endure but passed through
  6. 06One who masters a thing that once mastered her
  7. 07A victor by persistence rather than force
  8. 08One who finds the way over, under or around
  9. 09A woman who is not stopped by being stopped
  10. 10One whose record is of things already beaten
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Layer Three

The Sovereign CEO

The Crown · She makes it prosperous

Cheveril — kid leather: supple, worked soft, deeply rooted, and it will not tear. She knows how to encounter, how to stand in wind and storm. From there she emboldens, and what she increases is overcomings.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Cheveril

adjective · attribute of God

Kid leather — soft, pliable, stretching far under pressure and never tearing.

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  1. 01Made of kid leather; of the skin of a young goat
  2. 02Soft and pliant, yet uncommonly strong
  3. 03Flexible — able to stretch without splitting
  4. 04Yielding to the hand and returning to shape
  5. 05Supple through being worked, not through being weak
  6. 06Of a conscience or a nature: easily stretched, hard to break
  7. 07Tanned — made durable by process
  8. 08Fine-grained and tough at once
  9. 09Bending in wind because the root is deep
  10. 10Trusted for gloves and bindings because it holds
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E

The Execution · HOW she moves

Embolden

verb · the doing of it

To put courage into somebody — the courage she was given, handed on.

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  1. 01To give courage or confidence to someone
  2. 02To make bold; to hearten
  3. 03To encourage a person to act despite fear
  4. 04To strengthen the nerve of another
  5. 05To make a thing stand out more strongly
  6. 06To empower by removing the fear of the attempt
  7. 07To fortify the spirit of one who is wavering
  8. 08To urge on with confidence rather than pressure
  9. 09To back somebody so that she moves
  10. 10To make courage contagious
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Overcomings

noun · the office and the resource

The ledger of what has already been beaten — plural, and each one makes the next smaller.

victoriestriumphsconquestswinsbreakthroughssuccessesachievementsmilestonesdeliverancesproofs
  1. 01Things that have been prevailed over
  2. 02Victories won over difficulty, one by one
  3. 03A record of obstacles already passed
  4. 04Conquests of what once had authority over you
  5. 05Triumphs accumulated rather than isolated
  6. 06The evidence a woman carries of her own endurance
  7. 07Storms withstood and named
  8. 08Hurdles cleared, kept as proof
  9. 09Increase measured in what no longer stops you
  10. 10The inheritance courage leaves behind it
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The Wardrobe & the Adventure · Day 20

The Reclaimed Land

Adventure CEO · Form

Dyke-worker's coat

polder-green sailcloth

You make ground where there was none.

Architect CEO · Function

Spade

ash and iron

You do the daily maintenance nobody applauds.

Sovereign CEO · Dominion

Landholder's cloak

deep water-blue

You hold what you have made against the tide.

Where this law was proved · Friesland, the Netherlands · 1200s onward

Villages build dykes and turn sea floor into farmland, field by field

The lesson from the past

They did not wait for more land. They made land, one embankment at a time, and defended it forever after.

The future it opens

Territory is created, then maintained. Both halves are the work.

The burden Christian sets down today

Waiting for land to be given.

From the classics · Hinds' Feet on High Places

The high places reached and then walked in — arrival that becomes habitation.

The Classics Shelf →

Write it by hand · the day's three lines

  1. 01What ground am I making this month?

  2. 02What ground am I failing to maintain?

  3. 03The tide I must plan for:

Connected · Cooperative · Coordinated. Establish · Extend · Expand. Organization · Organizer · Organizations. Same law, three heights: profitable, then profitable and sovereign, then prosperous.

Proprietary planner system · Patent pending