May 2015

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Choosing Transformation Daily

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_text animation=”none”] Have you ever had a significant “ah-hah” moment? One of mine happened in 2008 in a large classroom filled with graduate students. “Students!” my colleague proclaimed, “Take notice. Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” In his book A Sense of Urgency, John Cotter states that “change is shifting from episodic to continuous.”  …

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Allowing Pain to Transform Not Stop Life…

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”No one likes to suffer.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Only a warped few enjoy watching others suffer. As this is written, one of the growing, significant emerging leaders I mentor is with his wife as their newborn son fights for his little life in a Colorado hospital. The urgency of things not going …

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Life Transformed By Mentoring

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”On the journey to experiencing transformation…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Deep roots of change The light switch went off in my brain as I stared at the person sitting across the table from me.  The last few weeks had provided us an opportunity to explore life and the journey I had found myself …

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The Myth of a Balanced Life

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”There is a yearning in all we humans for more, better, easier, fulfillment.” style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Waiting recently to board a plane back home to Denver, I was in an airport gift shop and had to smile at the amount of promises to life if one just purchased “that book,” or “that magazine” …

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Mentoring is not just about your work

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”I read the mentoring blogs every week.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This morning’s are representative of the norm.  The top five blog articles are about mentoring at work:  “Mix N’ Mentor Comes to Jordan,” “Cuomo Touts NY Business Mentor Program, “10 Ways to Become a Great Mentor” (in business), “Mentoring for Scale” and …

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Mentoring Men For Their Whole Life

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Ask any man today if he needs a mentor, and you might run into a little pushback.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “I don’t need someone telling me what to do” “My Dad figured it out” “The world is about survival, I’ll learn it, or not” But talk with men who are self-aware enough …

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Mentoring Women for their Whole-life

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Could your life be so focused on a few prominent areas that you forget other dimensions even exist?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I love the “aha” moment when a woman considers the 8 Dimensions diagram for the first time and realizes there are more dimensions to explore. Suddenly she experiences a newfound “freedom” …

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Whole Person Mentoring

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”The best of mentoring is intentional, moving toward deep change, for one’s whole life.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] No matter the age of the person being mentored, no matter the circumstance being discussed, no matter the desired outcome of personal growth, the best of mentoring will always keep in mind that our goal …

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