We all want to work in the areas of our passion. consultants and coaches abound with insights and techniques to help you “discover your passion,” “live your passion,” “have more passion.” It’s appealing to think that you can spend your days working on all the things that feed your soul and energize you emotionally. Listen, I’m a[…]
My wife loves to work on scrapbooks. She’s spent the better part of the recent summer months working on updating the scrapbooks for each of our three grown sons. I wander into her back office from time to time, which these days is our enclosed back porch. As I flip through the pages of these scrapbooks, a lifetime[…]
This morning I read an email from a friend who is understandably concerned about the racial, political, social, and moral unrest and issues that divide us. Like so many of us, he has been watching various YouTube videos which present some aspect of the problem but offer little or no solutions. His email ended with, “So what are we[…]
When you purchase a new car, you probably pay attention to where you park, at least for a while, to avoid getting a door ding – OK, maybe this is just my issue. But I’m a “car guy” so the thought of having a ding in the smooth side of a new ride just drives[…]
My wife and I had the joy of spending Christmas in Atlanta with our oldest son David and his very pregnant wife Jeanna, along with our two other sons, their wives, and our three grandkids. We had a glorious, sometimes chaotic time together. It was awesome! David and JeJe (that’s what we affectionally call her), have a beautifully restored home built in 1930. One of[…]
How often do you dive into your day, your week, your month, full-steam-ahead and then work to fit in some necessary downtime to recharge your emotional, intellectual and physical batteries? It’s the American way right? Work hard and recharge – rinse and repeat! But recently I heard a sermon that got me thinking perhaps we[…]
This is an excerpt from my friend Jim Mathis, a “reinvention expert” I’ve come to know and respect. You can connect with Jim at www.jimmathis.com. “Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman; not the attitude of the prospect.” -Clement Stone I love when someone says during a sales workshop, “I’m in the problem-solving[…]
When my son Darren got engaged a few years ago, everyone from close family members to complete strangers felt compelled to offer him sage advice on how to have a successful marriage. I was at the head of that line, of course. One of the phrases he heard over and over was how having a[…]
