Your life’s potential

Thursday March 7, 2013 #504   “Every great thing that’s happened in your life has happened because something changed.”   ~Andy Andrews   It is always true that the most important times of growth, and our most treasured memories, stem from...

The futility of trying to change others

Tuesday January 22, 2013 #491   “Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”   ~Ben Franklin   Unless you are raising a young child, your chances of fundamentally changing...

Congratulations on being a doer!

Thursday January 3, 2013 #486   “A non-doer is very often a critic – that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It’s easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and...

The value of collective wisdom

Thursday November 1, 2012 #468   “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”   ~Charles Darwin   Interesting to read Darwin talk about one of today’s...

The danger of success

Thursday September 27, 2012 #458   “It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.”   ~David Hackworth   The danger of success, particularly when it lasts any length of time, is we tend to get...