Burn Letter for New Year’s Eve

The fire pit is ready and I am ready to make my Burn Letter for New Year’s Eve! A Burn Letter is simply a written list of all the stuff that is still bugging you about the past year.  The emotional baggage or “head noise” that really should NOT be...

Leadership and Passover Lessons

Leadership and Passover – some hard lessons As a Christian, Passover has been meaningful to me both as the annual Jewish tradition that brought Jesus to Jerusalem and a chilling story from the Old Testament. Each Easter season, I find myself going back to the...

Goals are an Acquired Taste

For me, Goals are an Acquired Taste. I admit it – I do NOT crave vegetables.  My wife and her mom always make a BIG salad when they get together.  They make it seem like fun and get very animated.  It is a “production”.  I, on the other hand, seem to...

Richest Man in Town

In the Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life”, the main character George Bailey gets toasted at the end by his brother as “the Richest Man in Town”. I had a Richest Man in Town moment back in September.  Months after I decided to say...

Choosing Some Personal Guardrails

Choosing some personal guardrails may be the only way you are able to live the life you really want. We actually already know this though – we see this on roadways all the time.  Speed limits increase as barriers are placed between motorists going opposite ways....

Modern Day Heroes

Modern Day Heroes are few and far between You are welcome to listen in as I seek to encourage myself to cheer on those who are my inspiration. We all have people for whom we develop an admiration or appreciation.  They are like lighthouses in the darkness.  One...