Walking each other home with context

When I think about how I spend my days… Ram Dass sums it up best:

“We are all walking each other home.”

I think this distills and elevates exactly what we’re doing. At our best we are walking our children, spouses, teammates, friends, parents, grandparents, & community home.

I got to have a conversation with Bob Biehl about walking each other home. Bob has coached thousands of executives, Fortune 500 CEOs and leaders of all kinds over 45 years in personal development. 

It was a one-sided conversation via his book Decade by Decade. It’s a quick read.

Bob generously pours wisdom into this book on how we can better serve ourselves and those in our lives. Bob stresses in his book, “nothing is meaningful without context.” We are only here for a few decades so it’s really helpful to meditate on the predictable challenges of each respective decade.

Bob shares how we can walk each other home with a little more empathy and a little more care.

Children under 10: SECURITY - Am I LOVED and SAFE?

Teens – SELF – What does any of it mean to ME?

20s – SURVIVAL = Can I SURVIVE in the adult world?

30s – SUCCESS – How SUCCESSFUL can I become?

40s – SIGNIFICANCE – I’m successful, but is any of my work /life SIGNIFICANT?

50s – STRIDE – Am I “OVER THE HILL?”

60s – STRATEGIC – How do I FINISH WELL?

70s – SUCCESSION – WHO will carry on what I’ve been doing?

80s – SLIPPERY – Can I count on my HEALTH?

90s-PLUS – SLEEP – “How long before I go to SLEEP?”

This is a model. Not an exact science. It’s a template not a photograph of exactitude.

This framework provides a little more predictability in a world of so many unknowns.

Onward,

Matt