As soon as you decide to lead you open yourself up to assault. This is because leadership itself is an assault on the status quo. Living a life of peace and affluence is a hollow goal, and an unobtainable one, anyway. There is no way to get through life safely; we'll all get battered around and…

Days pass into weeks, weeks into months, months to years, and, well, you know how it goes. In fact, the older you are the more you are familiar with the frenzied acceleration of age.  The thing to consider, though, as these moments race by in a blur, is the lives of others around you. Leaders…

Just because we CAN do something doesn't mean we should. Just because a technology is developed doesn't mean it will improve our lives. Just because something makes communication more convenient doesn't mean it makes it better. Just because we can be contacted anytime, anywhere, for any reason, doesn't mean we should. And, just because everybody…

There is a lot to be said for the concept of individuality. We have long celebrated the rugged individual, the loner, the stand-out, the rebel. There seems to be something attractive about a person who can remain what and who they are, even when under constant attack from "the world" and the court of "they"…

"Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter!"  D.L. Moody So how is your life going? Is it what you always wanted? For most people, the answer to those two questions is not good. They somehow have worked hard for a chunk of their life only…

"I'm going to finally lose that extra fifteen pounds," says one. "I'm going to improve my eating habits," says another. Who knows how many New Year's resolutions like these people have committed to over the past couple days?  What if we could make a resolution that would stick? What if we could make one that…

In the smash-hit movie Titanic a few years ago, moviemakers combined fiction with history. As usual, the history wasn't exactly accurrate. Tellingly, though, was the way in which the actual history was tweaked.    Most viewers of the film will remember the scene when the first class passengers rushed aboard the lifeboats. Only through the…

I will never understand how decadance can be considered 'cool,' nor how laziness can seek justification as rebellion. How can ingratitude be disguised as victimization, or cynicism as intelligence? These are the bastardizations prevalent in our society today. And they all have something in common: they are equally pathetic.   Honor goes to the man…

In the previous post I referred to author Jose Ortega y Gasset's classification of man into two distinct groups, the "mass man" (or "common man") vs. the "excellent man." As stated by Ortega, ". . . we distinguished the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes…

Almost anything that can be said about the topic of attitude sounds like a cliche, as though it's all been said before.  Still, I wonder, why is having a good attitude so rare in our society?  We have the highest standard of living in the world, the highest of anybody in history, better health, better…