Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy leader

podcast. So great to be with you. And our title today is, what would I say to my 25, 35, and 45 year old self?

That is, what would I say to my 25, 35, 35, or 45 year old self? This was actually,

this topic was sent to me by a friend of mine who's been in leadership for 40, 45 years.

And what a phenomenal topic. I've so enjoyed thinking about it and preparing for this podcast.

In fact, let me encourage you, if you have a great topic, which you think would work for a podcast

that will stretch me and maybe take me in some new directions, let me invite you to send me that

topic. Go to Ask Pete at Emotionally Healthy.org. That's

Ask Pete at Emotionally Healthy.org because anytime I get a fresh topic like this one, it pulls

out of me some hard lessons and insights and I learn a great deal. So it's a gift to listeners

and it's a gift to me as well and all of E.H. discipleship. So again, what would I say to my

25, 35, or 45-year-old self? Let me make a few introductory remarks here before I launch

out into each. I'm going to limit myself to four kind of things, I would say, per age span.

But there's one of them, you'll notice, I'm going to repeat in each for the

25, 35, and 45-year-old person the same truth, but in increasing levels of depth. Then you'll also

notice that they overlap. In other words, they build on each other. But in the sense, these four that I

mentioned for each are priority developmental leadership tasks to grow in. And how much I wish I had

a mentor who had talked to me at that age about these things. I'm going to also introduce a

primary scripture, which I think

kind of encapsulates the challenge of that decade. And then I'll, I will throw in at the end,

a couple of thoughts for the 55-year-old as well, because being 55 and going into 65, 75, 75, and 85

has its own unique developmental discipleship task.

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