Mentor

Below are 500 mentor posts from Tim. Use the filters to find what you are looking for within this category.

✕ Clear Filters

Filter by Category

Filter by Type

Burning Batteries and Dumpsters
QuoteFunBuilderMentorSeeker

Burning Batteries and Dumpsters

July 30, 2022

via GIPHY “They are a train full of burning batteries crashing into a parking lot of dumpsters”                                            - A friend warning me about getting involved with a friend of...
Read More
Golden
SongFunBuilderMentorSeeker

Golden

By My Morning Jacket

July 30, 2022

Editor’s Note:  I didn’t like My Morning Jacket in person (perhaps because they didn’t play any of their older stuff like this one) but I sure do love their sound. ...
Listen Now
Processing Input
PostTim's StoryWhat's NextMentorSeeker

Processing Input

By Tim McCarthy

July 30, 2022

“You don’t trust me”. It hit me like a brick to the side of my head. But as I’ve grown older, I try hard to process input that I don’t...
Read More
David Sipress
PostFunBuilderMentorSeeker

David Sipress

By Tim McCarthy

July 29, 2022

Read More
Ain’t No Sunshine
SongFunBuilderMentorSeeker

Ain’t No Sunshine

By The Neville Brothers

June 30, 2022

Editor’s note:  Keeping it light and rhythmic for July with this great old tune, redone by one of my favorite acts.  Enjoy sax, keyboard and guitar funk in middle.  ...
Listen Now
The First Kennedys
BookFunBuilderMentorSeeker

The First Kennedys

By Neal Thompson

June 30, 2022

Editor’s Note:  Yes, second Ireland-focused book in a row but…any student of history will love this story.  Everyone knows about the famous Kennedy political dynasty and some know about their...
Read More
July Laugh
PostFunBuilderMentorSeeker

July Laugh

By Tim McCarthy

June 30, 2022

Read More
Living Our Best Life
QuoteWhat's NextBuilderMentorSeeker

Living Our Best Life

By Kimberly Brown, “Living Your Real Best Life”

June 30, 2022

Because living our real best life is tethered to our intention to be happy and free and to help everyone else be happy and free, we don’t have to feel...
Read More
Reciprocal Giving
PostGivingTim's StoryBuilderMentor

Reciprocal Giving

By Tim McCarthy

June 30, 2022

Sounds oxymoronic.  It’s not. Exhibit 1:  When my Mom would hand a valuable keepsake to one of her children, I’d say “but Mom, you loved that piece”.  She’d respond: “I’d...
Read More
June Laugh
PostFunBuilderMentorSeeker

June Laugh

By Tim McCarthy

May 30, 2022

For those of you fond of such old comics, check out www.gocomics.com
Read More
Rocket Man
SongFunBuilderMentorSeeker

Rocket Man

By My Morning Jacket

May 30, 2022

Editor’s comment:  The original Rocket Man, written and performed by Elton John, does not appeal to me nearly as much as this softer, more melodic version. Favorite lyric:  “Rocket Man...
Listen Now
Power of the Pupil
QuoteGivingMentor

Power of the Pupil

By Alfred Adler

May 30, 2022

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. — Alfred...
Read More
We Don’t Know Ourselves
BookFunBuilderMentorSeeker

We Don’t Know Ourselves

By Fintan O’Toole

May 30, 2022

Editor’s comment:  John Murphy, who married my sister, Felicia, in 1970 teased that his job in the Irish Immigration office at Dublin Castle was a lonely one “while the folks...
Read More
Shaping Our Jiminy Cricket
PostTim's StoryWhat's NextMentor

Shaping Our Jiminy Cricket

By Tim McCarthy

May 30, 2022

Each of us operates with a voice inside our head, our life’s narrator. Narrator seems a good term since it’s the voice that judges every thought we have, every action...
Read More
Spaceballs – Mel Brooks
PostFunBuilderMentorSeeker

Spaceballs – Mel Brooks

By Tim McCarthy

May 1, 2022

Editor’s comment:  I’m addicted to mindless, slapstick humor and this is one of my favorite scenes of all time, from Mel Brooks satirical takeoff on Star Wars.  “When will then...
Read More
Harlem Shuffle
BookFunBuilderMentorSeeker

Harlem Shuffle

By Colson Whitehead

April 30, 2022

Editor’s note: I chose this book while looking for fiction, a crime story in the bestseller section. What I found was so much more. It takes a few chapters to...
Read More
Feeling Understood
QuoteWhat's NextBuilderMentorSeeker

Feeling Understood

By Mardy Grothe

April 30, 2022

You don't have to completely understand people to make them feel completely understood. -Mardy Grothe
Read More
She Wore Diamonds on the Inside
SongFunBuilderMentorSeeker

She Wore Diamonds on the Inside

By Ben Harper

April 30, 2022

Editor’s comment:  Among Alice and my favorite acts at a recent music festival we attended was Ben Harper, playing alone with a couple Fender Reverb amps, a mic and five...
Listen Now
City of Thieves
BookFunBuilderMentorSeeker

City of Thieves

By David Benioff

March 31, 2022

Editor’s Note: I walked into a mom-and-pop bookshop in California recently. The owner asked about titles I liked, then handed me this book after some thought. It’s historical fiction drama...
Read More
Time Stretching Exercises
PostTim's StoryWhat's NextMentorSeeker

Time Stretching Exercises

By Tim McCarthy

March 31, 2022

Oliver Burkeman subtitled his book 4,000 Weeks “time management for mortals”. Time and mortality are tough subjects that Burkeman faces head-on and with creativity and humor uncommon to self-help books....
Read More
75 and Sunny
SongFunBuilderMentorSeeker

75 and Sunny

By Ryan Montbleau

March 31, 2022

Editor’s note: Thanks to Mikey Utesch for this one, a song that has it all: rhythm, energy, nice voice and meaning. Favorite lyric: “You’d better believe I’m living for the...
Listen Now