Take Action – Moving the Needle on Your Dreams
Like Pavlov’s dog this deleterious habit had set in so hard it had worn ruts deep into my mind. Wake Up. Read. Workout. Feel the endorphins rush in, rush out. Like clockwork the sadness would arrive next, a morning fog rolling in and putting a damper on my healthy efforts. With no kids to drive […]
Love You Love Life – Do YOU love YOU?
“The first step towards change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden As far as size goes, it was a small thing. Around the size of my pinkie-fingernail. Yet, I carried it around like a 100 lb sack. For forty-four years, whenever I caught a glimpse of myself in a mirror, it […]
You are HERE – Where do you want to go?
Not a seat was left empty in the hotel ballroom – the question hung heavy in the air. You are HERE – Where do you want to go? Men and women from every station of life occupied the cushioned chairs. Doctors and lawyers, janitors and cabinet makers, estheticians and teachers – all sat with the […]
Success is No Accident
We had a tradition in our family for the first-day-of-school eve. All the jitters and “what if’s” would be flying around wreaking havoc in our kids’ heads, so we did what good parents do – we read a bedtime story. Not just any story, it had to be Gilbert and Friends – “Brand New Pencils, […]
Starving Our Fear to Feed Our Faith
It’s the feeling that fear drags with it that I dread the most. The clamp on my heart, surge in my stomach, lump in my throat – trademark stamp of fear! It doesn’t matter if it’s a reptile in the bathroom or a life changing diagnosis, fear has wreaked its share of havoc. I’ll be […]
Do It Now – Top 5 Procrastination Busters
I would really like to put myself out there as being a hyper-organized superhuman, but in reality I have dark areas of procrastination in my life. Doctor check ups and cleaning the baseboards fit in this category. I rather they never see the light of day. Now, there are things that I consistently put off […]
And Culture Makes Perfect
Some of our greatest lessons of leadership are found on the green turf of fall. What a season TCU and a valuable lesson in culture makes perfect! Sports provide the backdrop for so many of life’s lessons. As Americans, we love our underdog movies. The inspirational greats like “Rudy” or “Remember the Titans”. A feel […]
Stronger in the Second Half
It is one thing to finish, and quite another to finish well. How might you kick it up a notch when everyone around you is calling it a day? Hit the wall … Bonk … depleted … defeated … done. Running a marathon is no joke. It’s ultimately not a race of speed, but of […]
Beauty From the Ashes – 3 Steps to New Growth, New Year
Does the onset of 2023 find you sitting in ashy ruins? Ready to find the beauty in your life again? Discover 3 steps to finding beauty in the ashes. The contrast was stark. Stretching upward from the ashes were charred, yet graceful Manzanita trunks. All the life choked out in one cataclysmic moment in time. […]
Break Down to Build Up – 3 Must Know Time Tips to Re-Ignite Your Inner Fire!
With the warm glow of the holidays behind us, December is a hard act to follow. Add on a dose of the “January Blues” and the idea of bursting into the year all fired up may seem daunting at best. I find the onset of the cold, quiet days of January the perfect time to […]