8 Dimensions of Life

[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 […]

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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,

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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