Treasure Found in a Pile of Sawdust!

  (photo credit/copyright: 123RF.com)   If I close my eyes, I can still smell the sawdust and hear the hum of the saw in my dad’s workshop. Growing up, I used to watch him build and create beautiful woodwork. Too young to use the big equipment, I often...

5 Effective Ways to Respond to Disappointment

“Don’t let today’s disappointments cast a shadow on tomorrow’s dreams.” ~Unknown We’ve all been there. Standing in that moment, we needed something from a friend, family member, or coworker and they failed us. We just needed support, compassion, an action, a...

6 Practical Tips to Get UnStuck

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to go from making steady progress on goals and priorities to being completely derailed? Life happens. Things shift. There we sit, stuck, struggling. I’ve found when I’m stuck it’s usually because I’m dealing with a lack of one of...
5 Effective Tips to Help You Reach Your Goals

5 Effective Tips to Help You Reach Your Goals

Have you ever noticed how the bright sun in the early spring gives everyone a bit of pep in their step?  It’s a great time of year to take a step back, reflect on your goals and recommit to achieving them! These 5 simple tips can help you maximize your effort while...
5 Empowering Life Tips from a Game of Connect Four

5 Empowering Life Tips from a Game of Connect Four

I recently dusted off my family’s old Connect Four and enjoyed several games.  While I watched the emerging patterns, with my evolving strategy, I realized that this simple game offers a few good life lessons. 1. Some times it’s not your turn. Some times we need to...

How Radio Static Changed How I Think.

At the risk of aging myself, I’m going to take you back a few years – back to a time when cars didn’t have Bluetooth connections to cell phones or MP3s. Cars didn’t have 6 CD changers or even CD players at all. If you were lucky, you had a radio and...

5 Steps to Jump Start Your Progress

This is going to be a different kind of blog post. Typically when I sit down to write, something from everyday life grabs me – from fog to a game of Connect Four, the ordinary inspires me with practical wisdom. Perhaps it actually is the ordinary that grabbed me once...

3 Things That Could Save A Friend’s Life

“Did you see that?” my friend blurted out as soon as the car door clicked shut. Just as quickly, her husband nodded with affirmation. “Should we say anything?” she asked, shaken by what they had seen, yet unsure how to process what they just witnessed. The two were...