Do I Feel Safe & Do I Feel I Belong?
I have followed the Gallup organization’s annual employee engagement survey for several years. Gallup says, “This survey measures the involvement and enthusiasm of employees in both their...
Inspiration For the New Year from Brother Edgar A Guest
Last week my wife showed me a short video of a football coach reading an inspirational poem to his team and that poem was penned by Brother Edgar Albert Guest. Brother Guest moved from England in...
Most Worshipful Brother Carter’s Shibboleth – Be Legendary
On the left is Most Worshipful Brother Carter's pin. It has a unique design and has some meaningful symbolism. Click on the pin to understand the meaning behind the design.The newly installed Grand...
Display Your Masonic Values to the World on Thursday, October 17th.
One of my purposes for continuing to write 365aMason is to make all Masons aware that unless we display, by our actions, our values to others, then we have failed to promote the fraternity in a way...
The Power of a Man on the Moon Mindset
I recently watched the movie First Man, about Neil Armstrong and the United States' achievement of landing men on the moon and safely returning them to Earth. This movie reminded me of the...
A Greek System of Education for Masons?
Paideia (pi-daya) is the classical Greek system of education and training, which came to include gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, poetry, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, astronomy and...
Are Your Words Consistent with the Art of Rhetoric?
This past week, I read an opinion expressed about a speaker's content at a university’s commencement speech. The writer used the word rhetor. The word rhetor shares the same roots as rhetoric....
Brother Teddy Roosevelt and “The Mark of a Mason”
I am reading a biography of J. Edgar Hoover, who served as Director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972. The book mentions a supposed crisis among young men in the early 1900s. There was a...
Why is Silence Golden? Practicing The Art of Masonic Silence
If you use or read on social media at all, it is hard to ignore some people's accusatory and, sometimes, blatantly unintelligent statements. When I started using social media to disseminate Masonic...
The Mindset of a Simple Soul
WB W.L. Wilmshurst, in his article, The Ceremony of Initiation, Analysis, and Commentary, wrote: “The First-Degree Ceremony used on the reception of a Candidate into the Craft is designed to...
Mike Clevenger, PM, New England Lodge #4
Mike Clevenger is the originator and facilitator for Masons Lead Better, a personal and leadership development program initiated by the Grand Lodge of Ohio in 2015.
Over the past twenty years, Mike has been delivering the message to the Masonic Fraternity of the value of personal leadership development and the power of creating an organizational culture of effective leaders.
He is a founding partner of the John Maxwell Team an international organization of coaches, trainers and speakers founded by Dr. John C. Maxwell and also a founding partner of The Deeper Path Team founded by Kary Oberbrunner, an international group of coaches who help individuals find their true passion in life and create a path to achieve it. Mike has served on the Shriners Leadership Development Team since 2005.
Mike is a Past Master of New England Lodge No. 4, F&AM Worthington, Ohio, Past Potentate of Aladdin Shriners in Columbus, Ohio, a member of the York and Scottish Rite bodies, Order of Eastern Star and a senior DeMolay. He has been married to his wife Luanne for 46 years and has a son Wade, who lives in Annapolis Maryland with his lady Chelsea and their daughters Etta Shea & Cameron.
Contact Mike: mike@masonsleadbetter.com.
