Weekly Newsletter

Weekly Newsletter

finding wisdom in a foolish world

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Tracey Lawrence sings, “The only thing that stays the same is that everything changes.” A prerequisite to experiencing satisfaction with life is learning how to deal with change. Unless we have the ability to endure change and to navigate it successfully, we will not live a meaningful life. What are we to do when: our job is downsized we feel a lump in our breast our marriage unexpectedly ends the youngest child goes off toContinue Reading...

Your actions and your attitudes. That’s it. You control nothing else. You have influence on many other things—your health, friends, family, where you work, etc, but you only control your actions and your attitudes. And this is good news. We foolishly believe if we controlled other things life would be better for both us and others. However, we grossly overestimate our ability. Controlling ourselves stretches our capacity so that we have no other time or ability to control anything else.Continue Reading...

There was a time in which a clear divide existed. There were official words and non-official words. There were moments that counted and moments that would not be held against you. There were times where you functioned in the role as a leader and other times where you got to simply be yourself. But those days are gone. In today’s world, you are never off the record. I wish it wasn’t the case. I wishContinue Reading...

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