At the beginning of every flight, airline attendants explain to passengers that if the cabin loses pressure ‘put your mask on first’ before helping others. Wisdom I believe applicable beyond that flight. Whether it is your kids, your spouse, your aging parents or those in need, we often prioritize the needs of others above our own. The pressures of life … [Read more...] about Me First
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A Perfect Storm?
The next disruption: Cost Control A perfect storm of macroeconomic impacts from the pandemic could challenge the ambition and agility of businesses in the ‘next normal’. Rising inflation, interest, and taxes combined with shortages in supply chains and labor markets is creating a potential tsunami of cost control issues not seen since the late 1970’s. Deferred or … [Read more...] about A Perfect Storm?
Get busy living or get busy dying
Our attitudes on death dictate the lives we live. This seems like a strange paradox, but our acceptance of inevitable death provides the perspective that drives the actions we choose to experience life. There are those who live their lives cautiously, without risk, who prioritize longevity over loving the life lived. There are also those whose zest … [Read more...] about Get busy living or get busy dying
The Power of Perception
We are the authors of our reality Your life is a story and you are the author. The reality of your life is how you choose to write it. We can either get caught up in the details of the story’s setting, the where, when, what that takes place, or we can focus on the who that is you. The story’s setting is simply the context in which it takes place, it is not the story … [Read more...] about The Power of Perception
Unusual Gratitude for Thanksgiving 2021
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie Top 5 things to be Thankful for in 2021 #5 - Thankful for the transparency of thoughts More than anytime in history, the challenges of the pandemic exposed the hearts and minds of the people around us. Their thoughts, motives, and beliefs, were put on full … [Read more...] about Unusual Gratitude for Thanksgiving 2021
A Full Life
How can we live a full life without defining what full means to us? full - definition : 1. containing or holding as much or as many as possible; having no empty space. 2. not lacking or omitting anything; complete. What does it mean to live a full life? For thousands of years mankind has contemplated the definition of a full and … [Read more...] about A Full Life
The Cancer in our Community
A creative writing essay I wrote while struggling with two family members battling cancer, during a time of divisiveness caused by the Covid pandemic. There is a cancer of divisiveness growing inside our communities. It alters our healthy unity of purpose and attacks our reason and rationale. It divides our country by replacing compassion and concern with conceit and … [Read more...] about The Cancer in our Community
The beginning of the end of US
I hope one day I learn the truth about how our great country came to an end. It may not be known until after my death, and maybe only told to me by God himself. We can no longer trust the media, trust each other, or believe our eyes, as the deceit is everywhere, all around us, from both sides of a divided America. I am sure of this, it didn’t happen … [Read more...] about The beginning of the end of US
Zuzu’s Petals
What if we all had some of Zuzu’s petals in our pocket? If only to remind us that our shared future is the outcome from billions of seemingly insignificant moments of connection with one another. Nothing can hit us harder than life circumstances. We all have unrealized dreams, unmet expectations and unpaid bills. Everyone has a choice to make … [Read more...] about Zuzu’s Petals
Thankfulness for Halftime Adjustments
As I approach the proverbial mid-life crisis of the empty nest, career wind down, and retirement planning, I am reflecting on the things to be thankful for and the journey that brought me to this point. It’s funny to see the generational differences play out it the people around us. I find myself drawn to the excitement of those hitting their peak in their careers, … [Read more...] about Thankfulness for Halftime Adjustments