Category: Life

Many goals are impossible.

Yet their impossibility makes them no less worth pursuing. For instance… …A food bank will never fully eradicate hunger from its town. But should it settle for anything less? …A public school district will never see every student advance grades at the end of the year.  But should it accept any pass rate lower than […]

Maximum Impact

If you want to achieve maximum impact, place yourself near the people who most need your insights and abilities [and are open to utilizing them].  We are often drawn to people who share our skill sets.  But as the adage goes, “If two minds think alike, one of them is useless.”

Thanksacting

We all have much to be thankful for.   And yesterday, we all were very quick to state that thanks.  Unfortunately, I fear that many of us (including myself) stated much more with our words than we do with our actions. True thankfulness is based on a true value for what we have. And true value […]

The Chip Shot

So I played golf yesterday. Which really means I walked around with a bag of metal sticks making an absolute fool of myself. I often find I can throw a club further than I can hit the ball. And throw them I do. (Yeah, I’m working on that.) Obviously, it was a bad round for […]