August 2015

Vocation: The Search for a Map

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”With great anticipation, I placed my index finger on the left-clicker of the mouse and pressed.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Only a few more seconds before the next screen came up and my questions would get answered. I would finally have the map to navigate my life and vocation. Instead, when the next …

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Lifelong Learning

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘What’s That?’…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …the soft, high voice inquires repeatedly. Or “Who is that?” over and over again. My granddaughter is only 19 months old, but she is an extremely deliberate learner of everything around her. (I’m intentionally learning my neighbors’ names, just so I can introduce her without the awkwardness …

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Get A Move On! Physical Fitness in Life’s 8 Dimensions

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘Chicken Fat.’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Do you remember it? It is also known as the “Youth Fitness Song.” In 1962 President John F. Kennedy commissioned Broadway composer Meridith Wilson to write a theme song for the Presidential Council on Physical Fitness (thanks Wikipedia). Its first two verses may inspire some spontaneous calisthenics. …

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Emotional Intelligence: Flourishing in Our Emotional Dimension

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”We humans live in two worlds simultaneously.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] One world is the outer world that we occupy daily. Our activities of work and family. Conversations with a friend or coworker. Dropping off and picking up kids from soccer practice, grocery shopping, doing a load of laundry or paying the bills. …

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Generations of Influence

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”We all want to live in wisdom.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This allow us to be good mentors to others. To live in wisdom, we must learn from our elders, gleaning all that we can from their experiences. We also need to consider what the younger generations can teach us. Otherwise, our learning …

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The Value of Good Friends

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”“I can count my good friends on one hand,”…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …was the declaration in the midst of a conversation I had recently. This was declared by a man who is so wrapped up in his work life that he hardly has time to breathe, relax, enjoy what friends he may …

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Wisdom and Earnings

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Does Wisdom Create Earnings?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The wisest person ever to live on planet earth, if he were alive today, could have purchased Microsoft from Bill Gates in the morning and executed a take over of Berkshire Hathaway from Warren Buffet over afternoon tea. This person in a conversation with God was …

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Why Are You Alive at This Moment in Time?

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”No, really: Why are you alive?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “Well,” you might say, “that’s an easy question to answer if you are Nelson Mandela, or Abraham Lincoln, or General Eisenhower.” But let’s leave these giants of history aside for a moment and ask again, “Why are you alive?” I find it helpful, …

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Walking through the mountains

Why a Circle to Talk About Life?

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The day this question is being tackled is Thursday, July 29, 2015.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I am on my third trip into Rocky Mountain National Park in ten days. Oh, the deep joy of living in Colorado! 🙂 The picture you see is my view of hikers approaching Emerald Lake, just below …

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