by 12tasks | Dec 28, 2021 | Jack Taylor
As I write this blog, we are days from the New Year. While January first is an artificial and arbitrary moment of time on a calendar designated by western humanity, we each look forward to that date as a chance to start fresh. All over the world, societies love to...
by 12tasks | Dec 23, 2021 | Jack Taylor
When my wife, Gayle and I flew to Kenya for our first time in 1981, our son Richard turned one. We let people know we had arrived by sending a telegram and by writing out our experience on a blue air form. The air form took two weeks to get to Canada and arrived...
by 12tasks | Dec 17, 2021 | Jack Taylor
Most of us want our children to become responsible and honest persons but struggle with what keeps them from being that. Some people point to our sinful natures, some to poor parenting and some to the pressures and influences of the media and our society in general....
by 12tasks | Nov 26, 2021 | Jack Taylor
Somedays I feel like I’m still determining my identity. I was born in Canada, grew up in Ecuador, Texas and then Canada before heading to Kenya over a period of 18 years. The culture of each place was different and I learned to change my sense of who I am on the plane...
by 12tasks | Nov 18, 2021 | Jack Taylor
Sociologist, Brene Brown says we are all wounded young. Because of that we tend to put on armor to protect ourselves from further wounding. We need to develop self-awareness or our undefined and unexplored emotion and cognition will control and drive every decision in...
by 12tasks | Nov 9, 2021 | Jack Taylor
In the 1990’s, about the time Shel and I were developing the 12 Tasks for our oldest sons, two university professors began to question whether IQ was enough to assess the true intelligence of people. They saw that, in terms of relational success, people with a high IQ...
