Maintaining inner peace is important for everything that I do. It is important for my health. It is important for my relationships (including my long partnership with my wife of close to forty years). And, it is important for my vocational success. Everything in life goes better when we are able to maintain a sense of inner peace. We see better. We hear better. And, we appreciate better all that life serves up to us. For me, inner peace is so important that that it … [Read more...]
The Power of Our Words
March 23, 2011 By
The words we choose...in writing or in speaking...can make such a difference in the lives of others. Recently, I watched the fabulous author and speaker John Maxwell put his arm around a young speaker who was sharing the stage with him and tell the speaker how impressed he was with the way this woman had just related to her audience. In two sentences and less than 15 seconds of elapsed time, John Maxwell made this speaker's day, week, month and maybe even year! It is … [Read more...]
How Can I Be So Grateful?
November 24, 2009 By
People are always asking me how I manage to have my life going so well as to be perpetually grateful. Inherent in their question is a big mistake in logic. I am not grateful just because my life is going so well. I am grateful because of how well my life is going compared to how it could be going. I am blessed to share with my wife the care-giver responsibilities for Scotty, a young man who has been blind since birth and has many other disabilities. Living with Scotty … [Read more...]
