Saturday Mornings

To the inevitable backdrop of John Philip Souza marches and Presidential photo-ops, Big Soda has announced that it will do some vague kind o...

A recent report cited that the single biggest reason families go bankrupt in the United States is because they get wiped out by medical bi...

The odds are very good that the last person to whom you spoke barely heard anything you said. Don't take it personally -- most people ju...

A HEART THAT IS BROKEN IS A HEART THAT IS OPEN -- U2 , "Cedarwood Road", from Songs of Innocence

We all seem to have a fatal flaw.  Or, perhaps better said, we all are fatally flawed.  One way or another, we are all in the same place; in...

What I want for my teenagers is for them to have respect, take responsibility and be resilient. The difficulty is how to teach teenagers ...

I like the thoughts here, as they describe the fickleness of our relationship with God much of the time and, even more, what God  is offer...

I wish I knew more about what is going on.  I just do...it's probably a parental instinct. But life has organized it that, without a...

Resilience  is the  ability   of people, communities, and systems to maintain their core purpose and integrity among unforeseen shocks and s...

Courage is like a muscle; it has to be exercised daily . If you do, it will grow ; ignored, it will atrophy.  Courage helps fuel grit ; the...

Do something that scares you everyday. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want to bring out the talent in other people, you have to look past your own biases, otherwise you will only be helpful to people wh...

The best leaders ...almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories . -- Tom Peters

We should all be incurably agnostic if God had not revealed himself. -- David Watson This is not as tidy as it might sound, at first g...

A little known saying goes: “The worst thing you can do for someone carrying a burden is to take that burden away.” That is a management sin...

Nothing converts cynics like success. -- Stephen Covey

90% of top performers are high in emotional intelligence . These individuals are skilled at managing their emotions (even in times of high s...

Management is the art of making problems so interesting that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. -- Paul Hawken

Becoming a capable leader is an evolution — a co-mingling of training, coaching, and exposure to the types of challenge that bring both ins...

Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He ...

Your skin is the outer layer of your soul. The union of two bodies is nothing less than the union of two souls.   Physical oneness is a h...

I like this line, near the end: "Adventure is curiosity, the willingness to embrace uncertainty ."

Nearly everything around you is conspiring to make you go faster; our culture is shifting towards always-on, always- connected . This is oka...

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. -- Matthew 11:28

A day off work yesterday hardly seemed like rest.  I had been wrestling internally most of the day trying to identify the root of something ...

We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God. -- Oswald Chambers

Last day before dropping my son off to college ...he and I enjoyed a day together.

The revolution in communication technology has caused the tragic demise of listening. Communication today is becoming increasingly a narcis...

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -- Albert Einstein Defer hard-and-fast conclusions and pursue ideas ....

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. -- Corrie ten Boom

Perfect is the enemy of good. -- Voltaire

Failure is, truly, inevitable. It’s what we do when it happens that matters. If there is a recipe for success, resolve figures in it. So doe...

You will only see what you are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson We took our 3rd to college yesterday.  This is getting to be ...

...the media need to expand their understanding of their role in times of crisis. The media's job is to report not just all that's...

Though they have been trained upon us, we are betrayed by our most instinctive responses to our efforts to survive . It seems we often end...

So it's searchable: You can't be a world changer until you serve.  And you can't serve until you break free of your comfort...

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. -- J.R.R. Tolkien

A lot of life feels like pushing boulders...either uphill or to keep them from rolling downhill over you.  Either way, a whole lot of effort...

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits . -- Studs Terkel

I know that the more I humble myself to others, the broader my understanding of God has actually become. -- Francis Frangipane This see...

Some really amazing lighthouse photos here ....  And, another one  from the same place of the picture above, by my friend, Dawn .

Disconnecting from technology so we can reconnect to ourselves is absolutely essential for wisdom. -- Arianna Huffington More and mor...

Don't ask yourself what the world needs.  Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that , because what the world needs is peopl...

The arts aren't just important because they improve math scores.  They're important because they speak to parts of children's b...

The children coming into their second grade classroom that morning arranged their chairs in a circle for a daily ritual: Their teacher asked...

We would rather be ruined than changed . We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die. ...

Man knows mighty little, and may someday learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down and pray. -- Henry Adams We had a remarkable ex...

Click here for more amazing 'beach' art ....

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the fro...

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others . -- John  Maxwell

So it's searchable: The difference between     who you are and   who you want to be is what you do .

Your code is the greatest weapon in your leadership arsenal. Having a clear code will help you keep perspective when you are doing well and ...

The mythical image of a “leader” embodies many of the characteristics commonly found in personality disorders, such as narcissism and psych...

I love the Lord because he hears my voice     and my prayer for mercy.   Because he bends down to listen,     I will pray as long as I ha...

As we camp this week with a group of youth, here are few things worthy of notice: There is no societal influence It is a reminder tha...

Focus is what you don’t do. -- Jim Collins

Your primary weakness comes from overusing your primary strength . -- David Baker

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness , but rather by the presence of clear strengths. -- John Zenger

How do leaders earn respect…by admitting their mistakes . -- John Maxwell

Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -- Helen Keller ...

Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened. -- Dr. Seuss

It’s better to fly a kite and it get stuck in a tree, than to not fly the kite at all.  Every opportunity has an expiration date and the cos...

A number of my young friends are headed to the annual Momentum youth conference today, including my daughter. I have a sense of anticipat...

Why did God give them free will? Because free will , though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or g...

For Sunday morning worship today, our church is visiting another church.  The leadership in both churches have begun to know each other and ...

Humankind is running out of water at an alarming pace. We’re going to run out of water long before we run out of oil. -- Peter Brabeck,...

We use conversations with each other to learn how to have conversations with ourselves. So a flight from conversation can really matter be...

Research has connected our technological obsession to increased rates of stress , attention problems, depression , cognitive function, and ...

How often have you changed your mind , say a change in eating style or to claim that you will go to the gym religiously, or some such change...

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. ...

Stress hits each of us differently. Some of us feel it in our bodies. Others just can't stop worrying. Knowing how you experience stress...

Over the last few months, I've been collecting and reflecting on the role of our  mindset   in who we are as people and how we live, inc...

It’s true that humans have a need to categorize their thoughts in order to make sense of the world. And yet few of us would realize our ca...

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything. -- George Bernard Shaw

Research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. -- Carol Dweck In other words, ...

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to whi...

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. -- Winston Churchill Unfortunately, this seems to be more true than it should ...

The last line in the article referenced below sticks out to me (at the very least, I applaud the theory): ONE small consolation of our hig...

You saw me before I was born.     Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out     before a single day had p...

It's ' commencement ' time again: ...if all we have learned here are Four Ps, and Five Forces and Six Sigma, we will prove Willi...

Talk about things (like sleep and  sugar ) that are affecting our learning : A study done at the University of London found that constan...

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grad...

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn . -- Benjamin Franklin

I write to discover what I know. -- Flannery O'Connor

Two recent posts make it painfully obvious that we badly need to re-learn how to live, so that we can get back to learning (makes me wonde...

As has become my early Sunday ritual, my time in the woods again this morning was particularly...lovely.  A cardinal seemed to use his red o...

We tend to live in sweeps of time and circumstance.  There are times when we live quite aware of the impact we are having ...good and bad.  ...

More fascinating scientific support for what the wise probably have always known regarding the value of sleep: Research teams from the U.S...

I prayed this morning for sensitivity and wisdom in my interactions with people today - at work, at home, with people I expected to see and ...