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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
I will be the first to admit that I haven’t always operated with etiquette. Most of the time, it has been out of simple un-awareness rather than refusal. I do tend to be a bit of a rule breaker so [...]
Oops, my blog didn’t make it…
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010I owe you all an apology.
I thought I’d scheduled my blog to go out yesterday, but it doesn’t appear to have made it. I was traveling home from Mexico, after spending 10 days in the Copper Canyon region preparing for and then running (and to be fair, also walking and hiking) a 50-mile race.
Yes, 50 [...]
Why you shouldn’t praise kids for being smart
Monday, March 8th, 2010Why you shouldn’t praise kids for being smart.
I’ve been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book “What The Dog Saw” and came across, what I thought was a pretty interesting lesson. As I have written before, I am a fan of his writing and have learned something about life (or myself) in each of his books [...]
Small Things Equal Big Results
Monday, March 8th, 2010We have heard it a million times in business, school, relationships and life in general.
It’s the small things that make the difference.
Then why do the vast majority of people keep searching for that magic bullet, that secret ingredient, that special something to catapult them to success?
Van Gogh said, “Great things are done by a series [...]
I Love Having Teenagers
Friday, March 5th, 2010I can’t tell you the number of people, who when I tell them that I have teenagers, say things like “Wow that must be tough” or “Good luck you will need it”. I don’t care, I love having teenagers. I really do. I can still remember what my life was like as a teenager. I can [...]
The loss of a child
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010As many of you know, the body of 17 year old, Chelsea King was found yesterday. She was from the local community of Poway. When I first heard the news, I started to pray right away and always kept her in my thoughts. I prayed not only for the safe return of her but I [...]
My Son and The Cab Ride
Friday, February 26th, 2010How can two kids from the same gene pool be so different? I know that my brothers and I were all from the same gene pool, but were we really this different? Kids never cease to amaze me, confuse me and enlighten me, usually all at the same time.
My kids and I have a routine [...]