Earl R. Smith II's Blog, page 60
March 7, 2016
Don’t spend your life trying to live up to your performance expectations
Earl R. Smith II, PhD DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com www.Dr-Smith.com In the early stages of mentoring – during those first crucial sessions – there are a number of ideas that I introduce. One of the most difficult to comprehend is a suggestion that a person should not spend their life trying to live up to performance expectations. Most [...]
March 4, 2016
Shall you live authentically who you are meant to be – the beginning
Earl R. Smith II, PhD DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com Shall you live authentically who you are meant to be or will you spend your allotted time living the life of someone you imagine yourself to be? No matter what the specific reasons are that brings a person to me seeking mentoring, the focus almost always ends up [...]
Don’t Do What?
Dr. Earl R. Smith II, PhD DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com Mentoring is about helping a person to reclaim their life and find the true path – the one that they were made to travel. One of the major differences between mentoring my way and how many practice either mentoring or coaching is the agenda of the person [...]
March 1, 2016
A Visionary Leader or a Program Manager? – A Mentoring Story
Earl R. Smith II, PhD DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com A Lesson Learned I don’t believe that someone who has not had a series of superlative mentors can be a mentor. You have to be on the receiving end of mentoring before you can start giving back. That is why, after I came to learn this very important [...]
February 23, 2016
Making the Possible Probable – A Mentoring Case Study
Earl R. Smith II, PhD DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you awake each morning, the day presents you with literally thousands of possibilities. Human existence is chocked full of possibilities. But the important questions is, what is probable? And the more important question is, how can you make the right possible things probable – how can [...]
Making the Possible Probable – A Mentoring Meditation
Earl R. Smith II, PhD DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you awake each morning, the day presents you with literally thousands of possibilities. Human existence is chocked full of possibilities. But the important questions is, what is probable? And the more important question is, how can you make the right possible things probable – how can [...]
“Grant me the wisdom …”
That’s how the old saying starts off. The rest makes a distinction between ‘what I can’t and can change’. Wisdom, it is posited, is knowing the difference - accepting what can’t be changed and changing what can. Clear enough as it is but these is a wrinkle - an oversight - that most people routinely make - one that flies in the face of such ‘wisdom’. They focus almost exclusively on what can’t be changed.
“Grant me the wisdom …” – A Mentoring Meditation
That’s how the old saying starts off. The rest makes a distinction between ‘what I can’t and can change’. Wisdom, it is posited, is knowing the difference - accepting what can’t be changed and changing what can. Clear enough as it is but these is a wrinkle - an oversight - that most people routinely make - one that flies in the face of such ‘wisdom’. They focus almost exclusively on what can’t be changed.
February 22, 2016
The Cost of Anti-Humanism
Earl R. Smith II, PhD DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com When I begin to work with a person, one of the first things that we focus on is the nature of the virtual representation that is put forth as the ‘true’ representation – the mask that they wear when dealing with the world as they find it. Most of [...]
The Cost of Anti-Humanism – A Mentoring Meditation
Earl R. Smith II, PhD DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com When I begin to work with a person, one of the first things that we focus on is the nature of the virtual representation that is put forth as the ‘true’ representation – the mask that they wear when dealing with the world as they find it. Most of [...]
