[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”How healthy is your core?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] My son, Chris, was four years old during the time his grandfather was sick with cancer and passed away. It was during this time I learned the value of asking my children what they knew about things. By asking Chris what he knew about […]
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Everything changes during the holidays…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …Have you noticed that? In our American culture, we celebrate an extended holiday season over the next five weeks from Thanksgiving to Christmas to the New Year. These changes can evoke memories joyous or jarring; wondrous or woeful. They also offer the best of
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”C.I.D.P Is Not A Disease…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …But it is all about you. Really. I smile when I hear someone say, “I’m not creative.” That may be their impression, or even life-long thinking about creativity. But…that is not exactly true. Of course, when we compare ourselves to a full-fledged artist of
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”With great anticipation, I placed my index finger on the left-clicker of the mouse and pressed.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Only a few more seconds before the next screen came up and my questions would get answered. I would finally have the map to navigate my life and vocation. Instead, when the next
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘What’s That?’…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …the soft, high voice inquires repeatedly. Or “Who is that?” over and over again. My granddaughter is only 19 months old, but she is an extremely deliberate learner of everything around her. (I’m intentionally learning my neighbors’ names, just so I can introduce her without the awkwardness
[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘Chicken Fat.’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Do you remember it? It is also known as the “Youth Fitness Song.” In 1962 President John F. Kennedy commissioned Broadway composer Meridith Wilson to write a theme song for the Presidential Council on Physical Fitness (thanks Wikipedia). Its first two verses may inspire some spontaneous calisthenics.
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”We humans live in two worlds simultaneously.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] One world is the outer world that we occupy daily. Our activities of work and family. Conversations with a friend or coworker. Dropping off and picking up kids from soccer practice, grocery shopping, doing a load of laundry or paying the bills.
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”We all want to live in wisdom.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This allow us to be good mentors to others. To live in wisdom, we must learn from our elders, gleaning all that we can from their experiences. We also need to consider what the younger generations can teach us. Otherwise, our learning
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”“I can count my good friends on one hand,”…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …was the declaration in the midst of a conversation I had recently. This was declared by a man who is so wrapped up in his work life that he hardly has time to breathe, relax, enjoy what friends he may
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Does Wisdom Create Earnings?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The wisest person ever to live on planet earth, if he were alive today, could have purchased Microsoft from Bill Gates in the morning and executed a take over of Berkshire Hathaway from Warren Buffet over afternoon tea. This person in a conversation with God was
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”No, really: Why are you alive?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “Well,” you might say, “that’s an easy question to answer if you are Nelson Mandela, or Abraham Lincoln, or General Eisenhower.” But let’s leave these giants of history aside for a moment and ask again, “Why are you alive?” I find it helpful,
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The day this question is being tackled is Thursday, July 29, 2015.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I am on my third trip into Rocky Mountain National Park in ten days. Oh, the deep joy of living in Colorado! 🙂 The picture you see is my view of hikers approaching Emerald Lake, just below
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[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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[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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[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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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”In two short months a young lad by the name of Josiah will be 7 years old.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This picture (one of my all time favorites) was taken when he was one day old. I have it where I look at it almost every day. Reflect back to a newborn.
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”What if we had Family and Marriage doctors? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Well we do, I suppose. There are family and marriage counselors in every phone book in every city in America, I am sure. (Does anyone have a phone book anymore?) We all know what an annual physical exam is like.
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Have you ever had an annual social exam? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I had my annual physical exam last week. It went well, for one entering his seventh decade, due in part to my mentor’s challenge this year to pay closer attention to the physical dimension of my life. As I sat
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”When you mentor, are you a teacher or a “teller”? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] One of the 8 Dimensions in the Circle of Life we’ve labeled Creative, Innovative, Designful, Playful. It may be one of the most forgotten, and yet, the most important of the dimensions of LDG’s mentoring model. Dare I
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”If you were to be asked right now (which you are being asked…), “How are you doing physically?” What would your several answers be?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] When we consider the physical dimension of our lives we tend to compare ourselves with the fit, youthful bodies we see in ads and others.
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