1. Video that moved me this week… I am not sure where I saw it initially, but I watched a video of a chimpanzee, named Limbani, reuniting with her caretakers after six years. I was not able to include the video in this post, but you can click here for the Yahoo news story which…
We have a finite amount of time and energy each day that we live. How we spend that time and energy, therefore, is something worth devoting some attention. Wouldn’t it make sense to apply as much of that time and energy to things that you have some chance of positively affecting? In life, there are…
1. Wild (and great) story I have to share… Alie, one of our front desk/office superstars, told me about a peacock that wandered onto her parents’ farm. Apparently, it belonged to someone else in the community, had left that property, and ended up on their farm. Well… her mom, JoDee, fell in love with this…
Are you getting fatter or fitter? Is your marriage getting stronger or weaker? Is the work you are doing becoming more meaningful or less meaningful? Is your life getting more exciting or more boring? Most things in life don’t just become that way all at once. We tend to think that the bad stuff that…
1. Movie I watched… We watched the movie Air, the movie about Nike’s surprising deal that made bringing Michael Jordan onboard possible. It chronicles Sonny Vaccaro’s (played by Matt Damon) relentless and creative pursuit to do something unheard of in the shoe industry. It told a story that I had known about, but never really…
It’s been my experience that when purchasing knock-offs, you seldom get a product that is as good as the original. I’ve made the mistake before, buying a knock-off to save time or money, thinking I would get something just as good as the original, only to realize that it was not even close to the…
1. Significant event that happened this week… My son, Kyle, graduated last night from Aurora High School. He is the last of our six kids, so it is pretty significant. He graduated Summa Cum Laude (not bad for a kid who doesn’t care much for school). It’s been quite a past two weeks, with awards…
My son, Kyle, just graduated from high school. As we sat through different awards ceremonies, slideshows, senior events, and graduation itself, I could not help but look out over the group of seniors and be almost overwhelmed with that pool of potential. Two words that seemed to come up over and over at each event…
1. Happy Mother’s Day… Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there! A few history tidbits… President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, signed a bill designating the second Sunday in May as a legal holiday to be called “Mother’s Day,” which was dedicated “to the best mother in the world, your mother.” Anna Jarvis, the founder of…
Do you have some great ideas? Do you sometimes see yourself doing something different with your life? Do you daydream about going certain places, buying certain things, or meeting certain people? What is it that keeps us from bridging that gap between dreaming about these things and actually going out and doing them? Our brains…