[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”There is a very sorry olde adage:” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …New Year’s resolutions are made to be broken. The sad inference is “who can keep them with the busy lives we lead?” However… …may I suggest that we throw that adage as far as the east is from the west? And, may […]
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Christmas fills up my senses…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …All 5 of them. I suppose the confluence of all the sights, sounds, scents, tastes and touches of the season with the “specialness” or “otherness” of the holiday binds the time to my senses. Here is a “taste” of the 5 senses of Christmas
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[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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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The person sharing their story …” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …with a hollow look in their eyes, is clearly struggling to understand what has happened. Debris litters the field of their life. Like an F5 tornado, dropping out of the sky without warning, in a moment, a fraction of time on life’s clock, life
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[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=”And back to intentional…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] As Summer 2015 draws to a close, my mind has been reflecting on the journey all previous posts on this blog have taken as we’ve gone through, in brief, LDG’s Circle of Life Mentoring Model, beginning here: In our linear world where “B” follows “A”
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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=”My Father will turn 100 in eight weeks…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …at least that’s the best guess we have of his age. They didn’t do nice, tidy birth certificates in the 1915 Ozarks. Mom is 91. All nine siblings and I have had the privilege of walking with them through the Third3rd
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”No one likes to suffer.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Only a warped few enjoy watching others suffer. As this is written, one of the growing, significant emerging leaders I mentor is with his wife as their newborn son fights for his little life in a Colorado hospital. The urgency of things not going
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”There is a yearning in all we humans for more, better, easier, fulfillment.” style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Waiting recently to board a plane back home to Denver, I was in an airport gift shop and had to smile at the amount of promises to life if one just purchased “that book,” or “that magazine”
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