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Intelligence · Days 1–10Day 6

The CEO Words · Three layers, one law

The Law of Potential

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

Spoken on this day

Potential is not a promise about tomorrow. Potential is capacity that already exists and has not yet been drawn out. You do not go and get potential. You have potential. The law only asks whether the vessel is clean enough for what is inside it to come out.

This is the day the Fibonacci begins to speak. In this planner every day is built out of the two days before it: Day 4 and Day 5 add to Day 6. Courage (Day 4) gave you the willingness to move. Poise (Day 5) gave you weight held so evenly that nothing spills. Add them and you get Potential — a woman who will move, carrying something, without dropping it. That is capacity. That is why the sequence is not decoration; it is arithmetic. 4 + 5 = 6, 5 + 6 = 11, and nothing in your life increases out of order.

Hear the motion of the E words. You expose, then you expunge, then you edulcorate. To expose is to uncover — to let the light in on what is actually there, without arranging it first. To expunge is to strike out, to remove entirely what does not belong. To edulcorate is the queen's shoes: to make sweeter, to wash and wash again, to shed continually so that what remains is pure enough to be handed to anyone.

And the O words carry the ascent. The Adventure CEO is given openness to work with. The Architect CEO becomes an outlet — a vessel that energy, money and mercy actually pass through. The Sovereign CEO creates outlets: businesses, ministries, tables, houses. The queen who goes to all the commoners has made each small house an outlet for her charity and her work.

Layer One

Clean · Expose · Openness

Layer Two

Candid · Expunge · Outlet

Layer Three

Concise · Edulcorate · Outlets

Layer One

The Adventure CEO

The Novice · She makes a thing profitable

She empties the vessel before she asks it to carry anything. Here she is clean, she exposes, and what she has to work with is openness.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Clean

adjective · attribute of God

Free of what does not belong — an unmixed vessel, so what is inside can come out undiluted.

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  1. 01Free from dirt, stain or contamination
  2. 02Unmixed — nothing foreign added to it
  3. 03Pure in motive as well as in appearance
  4. 04Clear of debt, clear of charge, clear of guilt
  5. 05Blank and ready — a clean page, a clean slate
  6. 06Complete and total, as in a clean break
  7. 07Honest and above-board in dealing
  8. 08Wholesome; free from what corrupts
  9. 09Neat and orderly, nothing out of place
  10. 10Sharp and exact, as a clean cut or a clean line
  11. 11Empty of clutter, so capacity is visible
  12. 12Fit to be handed to another without apology
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E

The Character · HOW she works

Expose

verb · the character of the thing

To uncover — to let the light in on what is actually there before arranging it.

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  1. 01To uncover; to lay open to view
  2. 02To bring a hidden thing into the light
  3. 03To leave unprotected so it can be seen truly
  4. 04To make known what was concealed
  5. 05To reveal the real condition of a thing
  6. 06To subject to air, light or examination
  7. 07To display for the first time
  8. 08To unmask what was pretending
  9. 09To open a surface so it can be worked on
  10. 10To admit the truth about what you are carrying
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Openness

noun · the office and the resource

Room — unobstructed space and unguarded honesty, the raw material of all potential.

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  1. 01The state of being unclosed and unobstructed
  2. 02Available room; space not yet filled
  3. 03Frankness — plain speech without hedging
  4. 04Receptivity to instruction and correction
  5. 05Freedom from prejudice or fixed conclusion
  6. 06Accessibility; the door not locked
  7. 07Transparency in dealings and in books
  8. 08Willingness to be seen as one actually is
  9. 09Wide margin — capacity held in reserve
  10. 10The clearing where a house can be built
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Layer Two

The Architect CEO

The Queen's Shoes · She makes it profitable and sovereign

Clean becomes candid. She no longer waits to be uncovered — she expunges what does not belong and becomes an outlet that things actually pass through.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Candid

adjective · attribute of God

Openly clean — she says the true thing plainly, without flattery and without hiding.

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  1. 01Frank and sincere in speech
  2. 02Truthful without cruelty; open without carelessness
  3. 03Free from bias or pretense
  4. 04Straightforward — the same in private and in public
  5. 05Unposed, as in a candid photograph
  6. 06Fair-minded in judgment
  7. 07Plainly spoken, even when it costs her
  8. 08Transparent about motive as well as fact
  9. 09Honest enough to be trusted with a secret
  10. 10White and clear at the root — nothing dyed
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E

The Character · HOW she works

Expunge

verb · the character of the thing

To strike out entirely — not to hide what was exposed, but to remove it.

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  1. 01To erase completely; to blot out
  2. 02To strike from the record as though it never stood
  3. 03To remove entirely rather than manage
  4. 04To cancel a debt or a charge
  5. 05To purge what has no right to remain
  6. 06To delete a line so the page reads clean
  7. 07To root out, not merely trim
  8. 08To wipe away a stain at its source
  9. 09To end a practice rather than reduce it
  10. 10To clear ground for what is coming
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Outlet

noun · the office and the resource

A vessel with a way out — the channel through which energy, money and mercy actually pass.

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  1. 01An opening through which something is released
  2. 02A channel of escape or expression
  3. 03A place where goods are sold and delivered
  4. 04A means by which energy is put to use
  5. 05A mouth of a river — where the water finally reaches land
  6. 06A vent that keeps pressure from becoming damage
  7. 07A point of supply others can draw from
  8. 08A market that receives what she produces
  9. 09An occupation that gives her strength somewhere to go
  10. 10A vessel that does not merely hold but pours
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Layer Three

The Sovereign CEO

The Prosperous One · She makes it prosperous and governing

Candid becomes concise. She edulcorates — she sheds continually and makes sweeter — and now she builds outlets, many of them, each one a door for her charity and her work.

C

The Attribute · WHO she is

Concise

adjective · attribute of God

Clean, candid, and now cut down to essence — everything necessary, nothing wasted.

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  1. 01Brief but complete; nothing essential left out
  2. 02Expressed in the fewest words that will carry the weight
  3. 03Cut down — pruned to its living wood
  4. 04Compact and dense with meaning
  5. 05Free of padding, hedging or repetition
  6. 06Precise; exact in scope
  7. 07Economical — costly nothing extra to say or run
  8. 08Pithy, so it is remembered after she leaves
  9. 09Distilled, as a syrup is reduced to sweetness
  10. 10Governing by clarity rather than by volume
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E

The Character · HOW she works

Edulcorate

verb · the character of the thing

To make sweeter by washing continually — to shed and shed until what remains is pure enough to give to anyone.

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  1. 01To sweeten; to render mild and palatable
  2. 02To wash away salts, acids and impurities
  3. 03To purify by repeated rinsing
  4. 04To free a substance from what makes it bitter
  5. 05To soften harshness without weakening substance
  6. 06To refine continually rather than once
  7. 07To make a hard truth receivable
  8. 08To take the sting out while keeping the strength
  9. 09To cleanse a work until it can be handed to a stranger
  10. 10To shed, again and again, as a practice and not an event
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O

The Perfection · WHAT she holds and increases

Outlets

noun · the office and the resource

Many doors — the businesses, tables and houses through which her prosperity touches everything.

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  1. 01Multiple channels of release and supply
  2. 02A network of places where her work is received
  3. 03Business ideas made real and operating
  4. 04Storefronts, ministries and tables under one house
  5. 05Doors of prosperity opened to others
  6. 06Distribution — the many mouths of one river
  7. 07Vessels she has built for other women to pour through
  8. 08Points of charity reaching every commoner's door
  9. 09Streams of income, each with its own bed
  10. 10An estate measured by how many ways it gives
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The Wardrobe & the Adventure · Day 6

The Lamp Left Burning

Adventure CEO · Form

Oilskin

storm-silver waxed cloth

You go out into weather you would rather watch.

Architect CEO · Function

Rowing gloves

salted leather

You do the part that blisters.

Sovereign CEO · Dominion

Keeper's lantern

brass and glass

You become the light other people steer by.

Where this law was proved · Farne Islands, England · 1838

Grace Darling rows into a storm at dawn for strangers

The lesson from the past

Courage is rarely a decision made in the moment; it is a decision made long before, in the dark, by someone who kept the lamp trimmed.

The future it opens

Prepare in calm what you will need in storm. Then the brave thing costs you only the rowing.

The burden Christian sets down today

Waiting to feel brave before acting brave.

From the classics · Hinds' Feet on High Places

The Shepherd's voice in the mist — direction given only to the one already walking.

The Classics Shelf →

Write it by hand · the day's three lines

  1. 01What lamp am I keeping trimmed for a night I cannot see yet?

  2. 02Who is steering by my light?

  3. 03One brave, unglamorous thing I will do today:

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

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