Red Edge Mentoring – Page 11 – Empowering Leaders to Create & Live a More Intentional Life

Monday Morning Boost: Why Is It Darkest Just Before Dawn?

February 19, 2023 Les Patterson Comments 0 Comment

Why is it darkest just before dawn? Why do we struggle the most just before we triumph? Why do clarity and focus sometimes rise from the billowing dust of confusion? Perhaps, the struggle of darkness is when the greatest energy is being created. English cleric and writer Charles Caleb Colton put it this way… “Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is…

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Monday Morning Boost: Pondering the Role of Miracles

February 12, 2023 Les Patterson Comments 0 Comment

I have been pondering deeply the role of miracles in our lives, and pondering again on the age-old question… Why do bad things happen to good people? The answer to this is the most sought-after answer in all of human history. Along our journey of life, we get to experience the arduous blessing of creating the unexpected chapters in our story of Love and Greatness. These are the hard chapters filled with sorrow, heartache and loss, challenges, mistakes, and defeat….

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Sunday Reflections: To Truly Love One Another

February 12, 2023 Les Patterson Comments 0 Comment

While sometimes it’s hard to love others, we know it is the light of love that opens the heart for healing, the healing of connected families and friendships, and the healing that comes through the Father because of the Son. TO LOVE ONE WHERE THEY SIT By Les Patterson To love one where they sit Where they stand Or where they lie To love one who is broken Plump out of luck Trying not to die To love one in…

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Monday Morning Boost: Days of Rejuvenation

February 5, 2023 Les Patterson Comments 0 Comment

Elisa and I focused on rejuvenation this past week with a week in Las Vegas. We have a vacation condo we have enjoyed renting in the past and scheduled this vacation back in the fall knowing we would be pushing hard over the next several months. It was also time to celebrate our 34th anniversary coming up on February 17th. For today’s Monday Morning Boost, I share a snapshot of our rejuvenation moments taken from the posts I shared on…

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Sunday Reflections: The Light of the Temple

February 5, 2023 Les Patterson Comments 0 Comment

While we love traveling, road trips, and vacations, we deeply love coming back home, even if it’s bitter cold! As we made our way into Cache Valley late Saturday night, we followed tradition and looked for the lighted spires on the Logan Temple. But the weather inversion kept our spiritual ensign on the hill hidden until we were much closer. We experienced a similar phenomenon, though not weather related while searching for the Las Vegas Temple last week. It was…

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Monday Morning Boost: When You Feel Something… Do Something!

January 30, 2023 Les Patterson Comments 0 Comment

When you feel something… Do Something! This became the unofficial ad hoc theme of the Empowering Greatness Leadership Summit… a vision 3 months and 6 years in the making… that finally came true last week. This was a vision I had given up on… then resurrected… because I choose to live a promise. I choose to do something with what I felt. Three months and six years ago I stood in a mostly empty ballroom at the Riverwoods Conference Center…

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Monday Morning Boost: Rejuvenation Power of Three

January 23, 2023 Les Patterson Comments 0 Comment

Creating a major leadership event has drained my energy more than just about any other thing I have ever done in business. Preparing for the Empowering Greatness Leadership Experience this week has been thrilling and overwhelming, exciting and stressful, energetic and nerve-wracking… ALL AT THE SAME TIME!!! In order to recharge and refuel my energy along the way, I have focused on three key areas of rejuvenation… Connecting, Surrounding, and Resting. POWER OF THREE FOR REJUVENATION ❤️ CONNECTING – Connecting…

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Monday Morning Boost: The Joy of Creating

January 16, 2023 Les Patterson Comments 0 Comment

Elisa and I had never painted a painting before Saturday night. While I had attempted some drawings in a high school art class (thanks Mr. Sorensen!), and enjoyed watercolor time with kiddos and grandkiddos (most recently with Savannah), I had never actually painted. I surprised Elisa on Saturday with a paint night at Imagine This, a music and art studio in Logan. We had a fun time trying something new that really stretched our creative abilities. We had a completed…

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Monday Morning Boost: Do Goals Still Work?

January 8, 2023 Les Patterson Comments 0 Comment

Do goals still work? Are resolutions finally dead? Is there a better way to create a better life? I think so! If you are like most people, your New Year’s resolutions are already forgotten. We mean well when we set them. We have good intentions. But then life shows up with its normal vengeance and we’re stuck just trying to survive. And somewhere in the murky reality of living, our goals vanish and our hope for a better life starts…

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Monday Morning Boost: Strategic Solutions For Today’s Business Challenges

January 2, 2023 Les Patterson Comments 0 Comment

Leading a business in a normal economy is difficult. Leading through a challenging economy requires the very best Intentional Leadership. How, then, can you become a more intentional leader? I just might have some ideas for you! To start with, plan to be part of the Empowering Greatness Leadership Summit on January 26th. READY TO GO? CLICK HERE TO REGISTER! This will be an incredible full day of strategic solutions designed to help you be a more intentional leader. Featuring…

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