8 Dimensions of Life

Thriving as a Couple While Getting Older

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Growing older does not mean one stops growing…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …in all the dimensions of their life. There is a “sad myth” hanging around those in their Third3rd of life that you grow older, you accomplish a few good moments in your life, your kids, should you have them, are boosted …

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Marriage Through a Whole-Life Lens

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Need a Marriage Tuneup?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] In my work as a psychotherapist and leadership mentor I am continually encouraging individuals and couples to live fully and congruently from their Core in all 8 Dimensions in order to realize the full capacity of their uniquely designed lives. Individually the benefits of Whole …

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Pre-Marital Encouragement from The Circle of Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”My wife and I are nearing the 50th anniversary of our marriage.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] We’ve chosen, as often as reasonable, to drive to a special place near where we live to watch the sunset behind the Rockies. We have a full view, from Pikes Peak above Colorado Springs to the south, …

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Mentoring Older Men

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘I need a mentor.’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Anyone associated with young people has probably heard those words before, particularly in a business or organizational context or in working with disadvantaged youth. Mentoring is a powerful tool for helping young people develop. But from a 65 or 70 year-old? Wouldn’t that seem a …

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Mentoring a Group of Good Men

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘See that older man over there in the corner?’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “He’s going to ask if I can mentor him. I can see it in his eyes.” Several years back, when presenting a mentoring workshop, that is what I said to a good friend who had gone with me to a …

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Who Are You?

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Have you ever considered what you believe to be true about life?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] These beliefs shape your understanding of who you are and why you are alive. I remember Wes Roberts sharing with me that he loves to begin conversations with strangers by asking, “Who are you?” Most often the …

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At Our Core

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Core: noun, often attributive: ˈkȯr” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] At Leadership Design Group, we journey often into a person’s core—and, if we are healthy, into what is at our core. It is, after all, at the center of our Circle of Life Model. Let’s go there again for a few moments this morning …

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Wholehearted Living

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”…and back to wholehearted living, no matter one’s age…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Younger friends tease and laugh at my quoting, some times, from the AARP publication that is meant for we “olders.” With warmth and care, I remind them that they will be “old” before they know it, as well. Time sneaks …

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Our Physical Dimension

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Not to be trite or casual…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …dying is a part of living. Between now and then, for you, how well do you plan to live? This we have been reminded of four times in the last three weeks. One friend was tragically murdered while trying to help a woman …

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C. I. D. P. … Creativity and More

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘But…I’m not creative!’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Even around some of those on the planet with whom I am closest I too often hear this lament. That may be “slightly true” if comparison is being made to some friends who seem to have been born with a extra dose of creativity. BUT…that is …

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Vocation and Identity

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Let Your Life Speak…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …Is the title of Parker Palmer’s small but potent book. It has become one of the most valuable books in my personal library. I first picked it up and read it in 2003 at the encouragement of a good friend. This is a big statement, …

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Emotions and Attitude

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Stop yer bellyaching!” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Growing up as a kid way back in the 1940’s and 50’s, this was my father’s comment to me from time to time. Those three words, sternly offered, meant that I had a limited about of time to change my emotions and attitude, get a better …

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Curiosity and Intellect

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.’ …Socrates” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] It was not her best day, thanks to me. Nor, frankly, was it one of mine. It was 1958, my Junior year of high school, in a small semi-rural western Oregon town. Ultimately there were 63 students in my graduating class. Most …

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Renewal in the Social Dimension of Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Alone…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …High on a hill or tall mountain. This has been a place of significant renewal to me in the 62 years of my life. I still remember the joy of being an adolescent, alone high on the hill overlooking my hometown of Whittier, California. I could see my …

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Whole-Life Heroes

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Heroes…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …at least the men and women I consider heroes, come in all sizes, capacities and conditions. Whether it’s imaginative, artistically created action figures of our comic book and/or movie heroes, or real time, living, breathing, eye-blinking heroes…heroes do come in all shapes, sizes and ages. One of my …

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Your Foundational Family

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Family…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] We all have one, but not all illicit warm, fuzzy memories. Sometimes families can be difficult. Estranged – or just plain strange! What is it about this dimension that can be so difficult and yet so foundational to every other aspect of our lives? You were born into …

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The Financial Dimension of the Circle of Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”We were stuck.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] $60,000 in student debt and newly married, I was in seminary and my wife was teaching. My car broke down and I needed a root canal. There was no money in the bank and no plan. We were toast. We were afraid! We were mastered by …

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There Are 8 Dimensions to the Circle of Life

[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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Circular Thinking: Life Out Of The Huddle

[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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Christmas With Family

[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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