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Leading from Creative Strengths

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he (or she) grows up. — Pablo Picasso” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Sadly, creativity is too often relegated to either the whimsy of children, or the exceptional artistry of someone older or seemingly more talented. I do agree with Pablo, […]

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A Family’s Financial Future and Composing Music Go Together

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”In order to create a financial future it is essential to actually ignore any kind of future at all.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] During your second third of life building a sound financial future is mostly about building sustainable healthy habit patterns. Ignoring the future is important because the sole focus of building

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Forging A Future For Realistic Growth — 30-45: A Time of Realization

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”There is something about “the big 30” that scares some and energizes others. ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] It seems like the future can be seen as unknown, a bit bleak, or full of opportunities that were hard to imagine moving through the decades of childhood, adolescence and being an emerging adult. Now

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Mentoring Adults in the Second3rd of Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”“I’m past 50. Why in the world would I need a mentor?”” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Have you ever heard someone say that—or something like it? It emanates from what we think is a skewed view of mentoring in our culture: mentoring is for children, adolescents and young people just starting out. This

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Helping Emerging Adults Achieve Their Hopes And Dreams

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Every time I read an article on helping the next generation, I’m excited to see new…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …new trends, new sociology, and new ways of thinking about the world.  But most of the time, it seems authors are particularly condescending towards the “new.” For example:  Most articles I read about

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Preparing Teens to be Productive Adults

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”“We’ve tried everything. Don’t you have a program for them?”” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This dreaded phone call is the newest trend I’m experiencing in my work with students.  It comes from parents who have 21-23 year old children living in the basement. I can hear the desperation in their voice from the

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Three Keys to Mentoring Grandchildren

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”“If I had known how much fun grandchildren were, I would have had them first…”” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] An old joke, it remains in currency because each generation comes to understand it anew when entering the Grand-parenting scene as we did ten years ago.   Being a grandparent is a delight and

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Using experience learning as the best teacher…

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”With this blog post we begin a series unpacking the Three3rds of Life. ” style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Here is a crucial question to ponder within the First3rd (see the previous blog post to capture all the age groups within the Three3rds), how are we educating those who will be the future leaders of

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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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Deep Change in Emerging Adults

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”A new phenomenon is occurring in America culture. ” style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] We’ve compartmentalized our teenagers to be “youth,” and now we’ve created a new space where students from 21-30 are now called Emerging Adults. Some colleagues use the phrase Extended Adolescence, as they try to understand why so many 21-25 year olds

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Deep Change for Older Adults

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Whoever first said that getting old is not for sissies, must have been getting older themselves.  ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Any age has its issues. Any age has its challenges. Every age needs intentional attention in order to be fully alive for however long one’s days are granted to them. That this

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Deep Change in Adolescents

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”In the old days, adolescent years were called apprentice years.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The other day, one of my students was trying out for an athletic team at school.  He’s not the most athletic person on the track, but he’s shown promise over the last few years.  He’s trained his body.  He’s

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