Here's a great, great quote from my Unfu*k Yourself desk calendar. “Your ability to forgive is directly correlated to your peace of mind. Whatever you refuse to forgive lives on inside of you as long as you hold onto that thing.” This applies to everything in life!...
Meditation isn’t anything new. It’s been around since 1500 BC, which is quite some time. One of the reasons it’s never gone out of style and continued to increase in popularity over the centuries is its many benefits, including: Builds skills to help manage stress ...
First off, a shout out to Joe Curtis, our COO, for recommending The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey - the son of Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and some other excellent books. These are all...
Your entire life is nothing more than your personal experience of it - an angle. A way of looking at your life that became much more important than just a simple viewpoint. It becomes an excuse for why we keep falling into the same destructive...
I recently read an article titled, “This Column Will Change Your Life.” Talk about a great attention-grabbing headline! The following line was, “stop being busy.” Of course, I was hooked! And I started asking myself, ‘what’s the secret?’ The article went on to explain that there are...
Emotional intelligence. This term first appeared in the 1960s but gained a lot of popularity in 1995 after the book Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman came out. John Mayor (no, not the singer), a psychologist, also played a big role in getting this concept the...
Paying it forward. I’ve been thinking a lot about this, especially since our company culture and values definitely embody this idea. There are so many ways to pay it forward - buy someone coffee, share words of encouragement, say ‘yes’ when someone asks for help, or...
There seems to be a consistent theme in my messages over the past month - changing your story. I guess this thought process started for me in 2017 at our All Company Meeting at the Gene Autry Museum. So, if you aren’t sick of it,...
Here is the question for today: what if who you’ve become isn’t who you really are? Let that sink in for a minute. From a young age, we are told who we are, what we’re good at, what we suck at, what we can afford, what we...
A friend of mine, Kevin Thomas McCarney, wrote Big Brain Little Brain. In the book, he talks about positive gossip. Positive gossip is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of talking negatively about others, talk positively about them. Just like gossip spreads, positive gossip spreads. And...