Football season is back.  Football fans everywhere are excited, enthused and hopeful for their favorite team!  And, of course, there have been a lot of preseason interviews.
I’m not a huge football fan, but while driving last week, I punched up the sports station and I heard part of an interview on the radio. The host [...]

My wife, Kathy, told me that when she was very young she lived on a farm.  At night, Dean, her dad, would go to the window and open it.  He would then shout, “Hey Dean, it’s time to get up!”
He told his young children that his voice would go all over the country from hill [...]

“The reason most people are so miserable is that they can’t stand themselves.” It is sad but so true! There are many people who just cannot stand themselves. I needed to change my perspective.

When we get up in the morning, it’s pretty rare to spend the whole day wearing what we went to sleep in.  We clean ourselves up, and then we get dressed.  We put our clothes on.
Some occupations require a suit and tie.  Others require a special uniform. People put on a variety of types of [...]

It is not uncommon to hear statements like, “I am doing what I love and I have never been happier!” Or, “If your job is doing what you love you’ll never work another day in your life!” You even hear, “I am living my passion and making more money than I ever have!”
I read that [...]

Living here in Arizona, we have about five months of very hot weather. People who visit during that time have a hard time just going from the house to the car. Day after day of triple digit temperatures are absolutely unbearable to them.
 
The opposite was true when we lived in Minnesota.  When people visited during [...]

Too many people live each day with disappointment, guilt, frustration, shame, and even disgust. They have buried their potential and have learned to settle. But, their potential is not lost, it is just buried.

In 1981, in the Capitán Mountains of New Mexico, a hiking group including myself climbed to the top of Sunset Peak. It has an elevation of 9,000 feet. We reached the summit just before noon on a beautiful cloudless day in January. The view was spectacular!
Sitting there felt as if you could see the whole [...]

A couple of years ago I was the emcee at an event and introduced Rocky Bleier, the keynote speaker. Rocky is a wonderful man, full of life and enthusiasm, and he gave a very inspiring presentation. I really enjoyed it.
A statement in his presentation video caught my attention more than anything else during that whole [...]

How much potential do we really have? Is there a point in life when we can just say, “I’ve reached my limits, that’s all I can do?” Or, can we continue to grow?
I heard a couple of weeks ago about Marion Jacobson, who just published her second children’s book. So, what’s so unusual about that? [...]