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You and I have been created to change. We have been endowed with the capacity to change. Change is crucial to being fully alive, whether our commitment to change is in inches or leaps. At LDG, we are committed to nurturing deep change in mentoring.
Change is inevitable.
To resist change dulls the senses. This resistance over protects the possibilities in anyone’s future. Staying where you’ve always been, in any one of the 8 dimensions of your own life, will atrophy your soul and dull your life.
We were created for change.
Last evening, 11:14pm, Mountain Time, a beautiful baby girl was born to an exceptional couple. The Dad, a deep hearted, brilliant thinker, coming-alive-man is one of those emerging leaders I mentor. I’m fond of half-way teasing good men like him (except there is huge truth to the teasing) that he has joined the “Way Above Ya Club!” as in the fact that his wonderful wife, now new Mom, is a beautiful, talented woman, and he, like me, has “married way above himself.”
Whoever would know his wife, or mine, would say that is true. With certainly. Their young marriage, our older marriage is growing forward in the thick and thin of life because of a commitment to change.
Change, over the years, whether younger or older, is crucial for being a healthy citizen of the world.
Good change.
Honest change.
Change by choice and commitment.
Life-giving change.
No matter ones age.
Judy and I, now married 48 years have needed to be committed to changing, personally and together. In those olde marriage vows we spoke was the line, “…for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, ’til death do us part.” After 48+ years with this wonderful woman, we have lived those vows. We are still committed to living them.
For this new Mom and Dad, just a few years married, involved in important careers, now fully engaged in one of the grandest careers of all, parenting, in their little daughter they will be experiencing deep change daily. Sometimes hourly. Definitely yearly.
I, as a man in his 73rd year, in the Third3rd of life, would not be where I am without intentional, deep-change, whole-life, transformational mentoring throughout my life. This new Mom and Dad, in their late 20s, are growing because of ongoing mentoring. Their newborn will be needing the same for her life, as well.
Thus, the best of mentoring is always intentional about nurturing and encouraging deep change. If you are a mentor, is that a part of your focus as you encourage a life forward? As a mentor, what is the deep change you need to continue making in your own life?
If you are being mentored, what is the deep change you are experiencing? We here at LDG celebrate the changes you’ve made and still need to be making.
What’s the next leap you know you need to make to gain the strength and courage to fully live your life? I hope you have a mentor who is cheering you forward. If you are a mentor I hope/trust you are modeling the way of deep change in your own evolving life.
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