Ever seem like your life has just hit a dead-end?  You know what I mean.  When no matter how hard you try, things just don’t seem to go your way and every time you “roll with the punches” and begin to get back up on your feet there seems to be another punch coming right at you. How do you …

A friend of mine sent me one of those office emails that have been forwarded so many times, you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom to find the original message.  At first I thought it was another of those joke emails that he thinks are so funny.  But this one was different. This one was about …

I got word of two deaths this weekend.  One was a Great-Grandmother that had lived a long and full life and the other was a young father just starting to live his.  One lost a long battle with cancer, the other died in a hunting accident. In both cases, the message that was brought home to me is that no …

I was browsing some photos looking for something different to put on my iPhone wallpaper when I came across one with an interesting quote by William Arthur Ward.  It was a picture of someone wrapping a gift and it said, “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it.” How true.  How many of …

An old Navajo man was out walking with his young Granddaughter one day teaching her the stories of the deep canyons and flat plateaus of the American Southwest.  His Granddaughter stopped and asked, “Grandfather, what’s a plateau?”  The Grandfather said, “A plateau is where a mountain stopped growing.” All of us have reached  plateaus, a place where we’ve stopped growing, …

Do you work for a “toxic” boss?  You know the type I mean.  They’re always yelling and screaming at everybody.  They belittle and degrade people at every opportunity.  They’re convinced that acting otherwise is a sign of weakness. Working for this type of person can obviously be very stressful but there’s more to it than that.  This stress can eventually …