The older I become the more I learn, and that's a good thing.  However, some things I learn I really didn't want to learn.   I believe its instructional that the fall of the human race occured with the eating of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  As it is…

I had the opportunity over the weekend to hear a fascinating presentation from Erik Weihenmayer, the blind mountain climber who summited not only Mt. Everest, but all the other tallest peaks on the planet.  Weihenmayer and his team of twenty-one members set a world record by having nineteen of them make the summit.  What was…

   Way back when I was a teenaged motocross junkie, one of my heroes was Ricky Johnson, a multiple Outdoor National and Supercross Champion.  On several occasions I got to see him race in person, and each time it was a treat.  I have always admired greatness, and seeing Ricky Johnson at the prime of…

Habits are the auto pilot in our lives.  If we form good ones we will get good results.  Bad ones, likewise, produce results of their own kind. Most of the significant problems we face in life are not the result of sudden calamity, though those are certainly to be encountered from time to time.  Rather,…

Communication is a category in which leaders must become excellent.  Poor communication leads to confusion, distrust, and an overall feeling of disarray that does anything but inspire confidence among the troops.  It doesn’t take very many "I thought I told you," or "That’s not what I said," or "I guess we should have made you…

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -  Albert Einstein Success requires proper thinking.  Notice in this famous quote how Einstein, without stopping to defend his supposition, as if it were just the most obvious thing in the world, basically says…

Leaders must learn to build relationships.  It is through relationships that we are able to influence others, be influenced ourselves, and receive some of life’s richest blessings.  The relationships in your life should be some of your most prized "possessions." One of the things I have always tried to teach about building relationships is to…

The more I study successful people, the more I am reminded of the obvious.  Whether it is someone in the business world, sports world, or whatever, the best at their professions are those who are "into what they are in."  I am not sure why our society looks upon successful people at the top of…

Life is a gift.  Each day is precious.  We have all been born with talents and abilities and a purpose to serve.  But life is also deceptively easy to squander.  We waste a few minutes and then notice that days have slipped by.  We count down the time to leave work at the end of…

One of my favorite authors is the late Patrick O’Brian.  In an insightful description of one of his characters, he says that the person in question had made it to middle-age somehow without life "sanding the cheeriness" off of him.  I loved that depiction.  As with all art, it’s beauty comes from its alignment with…