[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”A Film…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …I went to see one last evening my wife. We took the spontaneous liberty of going to one I had long wanted to see. Both of us were glad we did. Personally, I was shaken afresh with what we humans are capable of doing to subdue other […]
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”What is it you really believe to be true about life?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Your life. No one else. Just you. Profoundly you… What is it you really believe to be true about your life? You and everyone you know (…and don’t know…) have initially been placed here on Planet Earth for
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘OK, Line up!’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] What does that command bring to mind? Good memories or bad? Will you run to the head of the line, or elbow your way to the back? It depends, of course, on the purpose of the line in the mind of the one commanding it. Your
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”I am intrigued…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …by the etymology of the word “transformation.” This is the 4th Pillar of the “best of mentoring” we are exploring in this space. Merriam-Webster, a long-time favorite go-to dictionary, defines etymology as an explanation of where a word came from: the history of a word. I
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The third of four pillars…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …that help to define the intent of the best of mentoring we call “whole-life”. As shared in the last two weeks, the best of mentoring is always concerned with being intentional, moving toward deep change. No matter what is being explored, discovered, talked over,
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Continuing Thoughts on the Best of Mentoring…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This week we will have celebrated Martin Luther King Day here in the US of A. Let us learn from his legacy. He, among many, bring to mind the crucial importance of the next pillar of the Best of Mentoring: Deep Change.
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The Best of Mentoring…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …will always rest on four pillars. Without these, it’s just a pleasant conversation, which is good to have, but it will not be the best of mentoring that makes a difference and changes lives, over time. Intentional… The best of mentoring is always intentional. Just
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”31-0 At Halftime…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …How would you react? I suppose it would depend on whether your team was the one with 31 or the one with zero, wouldn’t it? In truth, how you react would depend on whether you are looking back—at the first half—or looking ahead at the half
[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”There is a very sorry olde adage:” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …New Year’s resolutions are made to be broken. The sad inference is “who can keep them with the busy lives we lead?” However… …may I suggest that we throw that adage as far as the east is from the west? And, may
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Christmas fills up my senses…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …All 5 of them. I suppose the confluence of all the sights, sounds, scents, tastes and touches of the season with the “specialness” or “otherness” of the holiday binds the time to my senses. Here is a “taste” of the 5 senses of Christmas
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Christmas with family…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …What thoughts, emotions and memories do those words evoke from your own experience? In a recent Blog post we considered how the holidays can engage all 8 dimensions of our whole lives. This engagement is most magnified in our activities and life experiences around the Christmas
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The person sharing their story …” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …with a hollow look in their eyes, is clearly struggling to understand what has happened. Debris litters the field of their life. Like an F5 tornado, dropping out of the sky without warning, in a moment, a fraction of time on life’s clock, life
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”How healthy is your core?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] My son, Chris, was four years old during the time his grandfather was sick with cancer and passed away. It was during this time I learned the value of asking my children what they knew about things. By asking Chris what he knew about
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Everything changes during the holidays…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …Have you noticed that? In our American culture, we celebrate an extended holiday season over the next five weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas to the New Year. These changes can evoke memories joyous or jarring; wondrous or woeful. They also offer the best of
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Limits…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Too often in our world-engaging cultures, limits are viewed as an unfavored topic. Limits are often considered as a negative instead of a necessary positive. Seriously, that is a false presumption. For instance in the world of music of any type, limits, pauses, rests between notes, are crucial
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Why are you reading our blog?…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …Wait! Don’t leave us yet. Odds are you want to, given the question we asked at the head of this post. We asked the wrong question and asked it in the wrong way. Ours was an intentional error, designed to capture a reader’s
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”People on the grow!” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] That’s what effective mentoring is all about. Learning to nurture well requires helping mentorees explore and discover who they were meant to be, rather than trying to mold people into who we want them to be. This, of course, requires the careful listening and question-asking
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Does your listening build relationships?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] One of my favorite definitions of mentoring was coined by Dr. John C. Crosby, founder and executive director of the Uncommon Individual Foundation, an organization dedicated to the field of mentoring. Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘Follow me as I follow Christ’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Last week, I was sitting with a great man of faith who lives outside of Washington D.C. In recent months, he’s become a new mentor in my life. I found that being mentored in his way includes answering compelling questions about faith, life
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”I could never mentor. I’m not qualified.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Have you ever heard that? Have you said it yourself? Here is a simple truth: every one of us has within us the qualifications of a mentor. They are simple; anyone can mentor. But they take time to master. Everyone can hit
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