As most of us do, I plugged my phone in the other night just before bed. The next morning my phone charge was at 1%. I thought I must not have plugged it in all the way and charged it in my office that morning while I was writing. Again, that night I heard the …
I love a good principle because it can be used in any generation, by anyone, with predictable results. There is a great book by David J. Schwartz called The Magic of Thinking Big. In this book he says that “action cures fear”. In modern times Mel Robbins says the same thing with her 5 Second …
I know, it’s a sensitive issue and there is a lot that goes into this, mental health being on the forefront. I’m not trying to discount any real problems, and for the sake of time I won’t go into it. But, someone this week said something about homelessness that caught my attention. He said “why …
15 years ago my wife and I built a home in a farming community near the Great Salt Lake. Our back deck view was nothingness for about two miles until our eyes touched the shores of the lake. It was a beautiful setting but with an influx of development over the years our view has …
This summer I underwent a routine outpatient surgery because my insides kept trying to get to my outsides. When I was in the pre-operation room the doctor gave me a rushed rundown of what he and his team were going to be doing. He asked me what side my issue was on, and I said …
Ask anyone who has ever studied an instrument and they will tell you that they begin to hear the details of that particular instrument in any song where it is played. I think personal development is very similar. It seems that you can always tune into someone else who is trying to do better things …
It seems that so many young people these days are being trained up to “change the world”. With that topic in mind we need to remember that in order to change the world, we don’t need to change the entire world, we simply need to change and improve ourselves. My wife is an incredible cook …
Sometimes as humans we begin to believe that we are our circumstance. “I am poor. I am fat. I am unhappy. I am uneducated. I am… whatever”. It’s good to come up for air every now and again and recognize that while (insert dissatisfaction), we can also change it. That is the power we wield …
When I was eight or nine years old I was playing with my mom’s rotary cutter in her sewing room. If you don’t know what a rotary cutter is, it’s kind of like a pizza cutter for fabric. As I was using this rolling razor blade as a toy car, I accidentally ran it across …
My family and I were at the ocean this past summer and we decided to head into the tourist traps to see what fun things we might find from the street vendors. My wife and kids came armed with cash. But me… well, I had something better up my sleeve, or so I thought. The …
