Posted in Character, Daily Life, Happiness, Leadership, relationships, tagged Champs and Chumps, death, grief, Happiness, inspirational, life, life lessons, loss, motivation, outlook, Personal Experience, Positivity, proverbs, quotes, Real Life, relationships, sayings, Southwest Airlines, stories, success, Tales, Terry "Moose" Millard, Vision, wisdom, Work on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Captain Terry “Moose” Millard passed away on February 3, 2009. While I knew that over 18 years of fighting kidney cancer had worn his body out, I wasn’t ready for his flight into the next life. I was losing a deep friendship that was spiritually, intellectually and emotionally enriching. A fog slipped into my consciousness, [...]
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Posted in Character, Daily Life, Happiness, tagged criticism, Daily Life, effectiveness, feedback, Happiness, ideas, inspirational, life, life lessons, Optimism, outlook, parenting, Personal Experience, potential, productivity, proverbs, quotes, Real Life, sayings, self-discovery, stories, Tales, Vision, wisdom on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When my two sons started elementary school, we began playing a game during dinner. Each of us would take on the role of another in the family. Sons became parents while Dad and Mom pretended to act like Ben and Nate. It was a riot. We never finished an entire meal before we had all [...]
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Posted in Character, Daily Life, Happiness, tagged Bible, effectiveness, Jesus, motivation, mustard seed, parable, Phrases, Positivity, productivity, quotes, sayings, success, The Mustard See Conspiracy, thoughtfulness, thoughts, Tom Sine, work culture on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Years ago I read a book by Tom Sine called The Mustard Seed Conspiracy. The book was based on a story Jesus told about a man who planted a mustard seed in his field. Jesus observed that when this tiny seed is planted, a large bush eventually grows to house a variety of birds. After [...]
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Posted in Daily Life, Happiness, Vision, tagged Change, Daily Life, ebb and flow, fall, flowers, gardening, highs and lows, hope, impermanence, inspiration, life, life lessons, outlook, Positivity, preserverance, proverbs, quotes, sayings, seasonal, seasons, stories, survivor pansies, temporary, Vision, winter on November 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have just finished one of my annual fall chores, the planting of Winter Survivor Pansies. The eighteen yellow and eighteen purple flowering plants have added great color to the front of my house. As their name suggests, these bright flowers last past fall and into the early days of winter. Then, they simply go [...]
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