Not quite a week ago I got an email offering me a chance to take a “30 second quiz” to learn what my biggest success blocker was.  Since I have all sorts of time available to kill, I took the quiz just to see what they said.

When I got the results, I wasn’t particularly impressed.  It looked (to me) like something that could have been written for 20 ( Read more... )

During this last week of 2016, many people's thoughts are turning towards the annual "New Year Resolution" ritual.  Millions will make anywhere from a few to dozens of decisions about how to change their lives for the better - and if history is any indication, 98% of all resolutions will be in the waste bin before the new POTUS is sworn in.

So, I ( Read more... )

When I was growing up as a child in a small Kansas town where EVERYONE was a member of one or the other of two churches, one thing I heard people say from time to time was, “This is my cross to bear” - by which I understood them to be saying that some burden was theirs to deal with.  Nobody could help, and the problem might never go away.  Much ( Read more... )