Eyres On The Road

Today's episode comes to us from Paris where the Eyre's are gathering with some of their children, particularly the ones that live in Europe. Richard and Linda follow up on their Grandparenting 101 Zoom course that started last week, and are then joined by Saren, Shawni, and Saydi, three of the four daughters who have just launched a new podcast called In The Arena with the Eyre sisters. Together, they talk from Paris about "Intentional, Deliberate Parenting."

Today the Eyre's cast from Balboa and talk about their speaking and workshops in Huntington Beach this week to 500 entrepreneurs who had gathered from around the world to think about and work on their Relationship Skills. The goal, for them and for us all, say Richard and Linda, is to be as proactive and strategic and deliberate about the Family corner of our balance-triangle as we are about the Work corner and the Self corner.

On today's show the Eyre's talk about the Queen's passing and about the power of her Grandmotherly image. Also discussed: The start of the new school year, Grandparents Day on Sunday, and the start of their Grandparenting 101 Course.

The Eyre's join us on this episode from the Big Apple where they are visiting some of their grandkids and going to the U S Open Tennis, Richard's (but also Linda's) passion. As always in the first week of a month, they challenge us to a new twist in our gratitude journals, focusing each day on being thankful for one thing we do not control--from our digestion or sweat glands to the sunset or the weather. The idea is to focus our gratitude this month on Serendipity and Stewardship.

This week the Eyre's continue and conclude their discussion of their three-letter lesson "Mek," and talk about humility and "nothingness" as the antidote for the division, discord, dissension, and disrespect that infests our politics, our church congregations, and our families. Highlighting quotes from C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Richard Rohr they conclude with President Russell M. Nelson's three word summary.

On today's episode, Richard and Linda explore the word-peg concept of "Nothingness" or being truly and powerfully and humbly "Meek." (Shortened to MEK for this three-letter lesson series.) They make the claim that the scriptural admonition to "remember your own nothingness" is connected to 17 incredible promises and is the key to unity and harmony in our homes.

The Eyre's are now working with thousands of grandparents and with three-generation families on making the deliberate, coordinated effort and decisions that make children's lives better. On today's show, Richard and Linda talk about making the choice to prioritize a well-planned, clear-objective kind of grandparenting which supports both children and parents and draws families closer together. For more information see grandparenting101.com.

It sounds counter-intuitive--being grateful for opposition and problems and adversity, but actually these things are an important and essential part of thankfulness and gratitude. As on every first week of the month, Richard and Linda issue a challenge on a new approach to gratitude journals for the month ahead, and for August their challenge is to write down an obstacle each day and how we either resolved it or embraced it.

This episode is devoted to vision, dreams, and the ENDS that we want to work toward in our lives. The Eyre's begin with some final end-notes on their Family Reunion that has just concluded and then move to their three-letter lesson series where END becomes the focus, along with the MEANS or plans that get us to our desired family and relationship goals or ends. It is our envisioned ends that can guide and direct our whole lives!

Linda and Richard have just concluded their annual Family Reunion, so relationships and extended family are on their minds. They pose the question of which is most important, our achievements or our relationships, and ask "which can we take with us" and suggest that the time we spend in contact with all three generations of our families--including cousins and in-laws, is the most important time of all.

The Eyre's just returned from a Motorhome road trip with four teenage granddaughters, and today they talk about their tradition of taking small groups of similar age grandkids on little trips away from distractions, parents, school, friends and "normal life" where real cousin-bonding can occur and where meaningful conversation and relationships can form between generations 1 and 3.

On today's episode, Richard and Linda talk about their upcoming family reunion, about their new grandparenting class, and focus on gratitude for relationships and on a new technique for setting "relationship goals" for how you want individual family relationships to be five years from now. The Eyre's challenge themselves, and each of us, to write a one paragraph description of those future relationships in our gratitude journals.

The Eyre's are casting today from Blakley Island in the San Juan Islands where they are visiting their son Jonah and his family who are spending the summer running the marina and store on the Island. Richard and Linda point out how all parents throughout the world share the goal of raising Joyful, Responsible, Sensitive Children, we all find our own methods for doing so. Jonah and Aja's example is extreme in some ways, but it will prompt our own ideas.

Today the Eyre's continue their 3-letter lesson series. REL abbreviates Relationships, which they contrast with Achievements as the two things we desire and that we spend our time and energy on. Achievements are about what we DO and they make up our "Resume virtues" while Relationships are about who we ARE and who we LOVE, and they make up our "Eulogy Virtues." The Eyre's conclude with the revolutionary concept of setting "Relationship Goals."

On today's show, the Eyre's continue their series on "three-letter lessons"--little word-pegs that represent touchstones or concepts to live by. The word LOW may initially have a negative connotation, but think of it as a representation of humility, of the joyful acknowledgement of our own vulnerability and "nothingness" contrasted with the glory and "everythingness" of God. This replaces self-confidence with faith and leads to calmness and peace (and even to lower blood pressure!)

As always in the second week of the month, the Eyre's focus today on grandparenting and on the teamwork that good families strive to create between parents and grandparents for the benefit of the children. Their 6-month grandparenting course is now open for registration at www.Grandparenting101.com and the challenge is to make this Summer of 2022 the time to become more proactive by developing deeper individual relationships with each grandchild.

On the first week of every month, Richard and Linda talk about another unique aspect of Gratitude, and today they challenge us to focus on one physical, bodily blessing each day while meditating for three minutes, and then to write, in our gratitude journals, a sentence about that aspect of our health. Gratitude, the Eyre's believe, is a key to vitality, and shifting our focus from something that is not going well in our bodies to something that is--can bring a welcome bit of joy.

After a family week in Costa Rica and a few days in LA for Richard's national tennis tournament, the Eyre's are casting today from Phoenix where their granddaughter's high school graduation. They are joined on today's podcast by their daughter Shawni, a prominent mom-blogger (71toes.com) in a discussion of UNITY in politics, in communities, in Church, and in Families. Are we more divided than ever before, and what is the path to more UNITY?

There is no shortage of talk about centering yourself, living in the present, embracing the now, but the Eyre's give it a few new dimensions as they discuss ways to be more aware and in tune even in the midst of the really HARD points and phases of life. Richard and Linda's youngest daughter, Charity, joins them on the podcast today from Costa Rica.

On today's episode the Richard and Linda reveal more about the book they are writing called "Three Letter Lessons" and how simple little "word-pegs" can influence how we live and how we see the world. The eleventh lesson is "ONE" which is about how we can be united with and tolerant of those we disagree with or are different from. And, the Eyre's contend, "oneness" is a better and more complete goal for marriage than "equality."