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Maybe that’s not the most charming or fun or finest way to begin a blog post. However, some day, the two of us, that be you and me, will utter our last words. At this moment in your personal history, what do you hope your last words will be?
Sitting here at our kitchen table in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, as I write a first blog post for our new website, I find it good to be thinking about firsts and lasts. Those who are parents have all been bubbly thrilled when the cooing and gooing of a child has some how sounded like Mama or Dada.
The moment that happened we knew they were bound for Harvard, at least. Just listen to that child express themselves!
Also while sitting here this evening, my iPhone is on so that one of the emerging adults I mentor can keep me posted on he and his brother admitting their father to a rehab facility.
The father is dangerously wasted on alcohol.
His words? Slurred and nasty and hard to hear. If only this man knew what an amazing son he has in the one I’m mentoring. If only this man could realize how his son’s company honors his son’s stellar work and contribution to this growing and life-changing company. But he doesn’t.
This young, vibrant business man, late 20s, told me in a recent mentoring moment that I have no idea how much my words have meant to him. He indicated that finally in his life he is hearing words from an older man that he has longed to hear from his Dad. The words shared bring him care and life and hope in the midst of a very, very sad family situation.
Isn’t that life? Extremes some days? For some, even years?
We often live in extremes. Success in business or other work. Hard moments in a floundering marriage. Deep joy in a wedding. Death arriving, cause unknown, way, wAy, WaY too soon. The crazy wonderful fun of athletics. One too many concussions totally altering a young life. We think we’re OK. We have a hard time admitting when we’re not.
It’s wired into our consciousness, no matter our age, gender, ethnicity to often live between extremes. Love. Hate. Acceptance. Judgement. Waking up. Sleeping deeply. Ill. Healthy. Avoidance. Engagement. Happy. Sad. Dulled out. Fully alive!
You get the drift.
Words count. Words express thoughts good and not-so-good.
From the ancient, yet relevant, Christian scriptures there is a profound, timeless thought. Words kill and destroy. Words bring life and hope.
Spoken words can be like bullets or arrows that pierce quickly. They can hurt. Or they can be like a soothing warm shower after a good day of hard and gritty work. They can renew. Refocus.
Written words are much the same. Except what is written lingers. On the paper. On the screen. Written words can leave scars. Or they can be generous pathways to hope.
As we launch our blog, our goal is to share nurturing, informative, creative, life-giving, life-changing, life-challenging words with you. Leadership Design Group is dedicated, as you will read, as you explore our whole website, to seeing you, the reader, as fully alive as you dare to be.
We are about mentoring you, the individual, woman or man, to explore and discover your life: to live life as a whole person, no matter your age, cultural background, educational or financial status.
You, as a person, are here to make a radical difference in our world.
We are about mentoring with all kinds of teams and organizations through workshops conferences, counseling intensives, consulting, strategic planning, conflict resolution and organizational development coaching. We will be mentoring whole teams of leaders in business, education, the arts, sports, government, non-profits, a wide variety of churches, and global NGOs.
Your organization has been formed as a unique unit to make a radical difference in our world.
Welcome.
Read on. Be committed to a life that is fully alive. You are needed and wanted in our world. We are for you. You have our word on that.
Together, let’s surprise your world, our world, with the generosity of the large to small ways you, or your organization, have been designed, on purpose, to daily impact and meet the needs we know are out there.
Personally. Organizationally. Globally. Locally. Profoundly.
…here’s to life!
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