We will find a way, or we will make one!
Challenges can bring out the best in us. We don’t have to enjoy them, but we do have to face them. So we might as well be grateful for them because they make us stretch.
Change
Onto the Bus
“It’s been good knowing you, Mike. Now you have to leave.” It had been over a week since we left El Paso in their old, beat-up, converted school bus. I kind of knew Kim and Kim – yea, a married couple with the same first name. They said, since they had room on their trip … Read more
Sometimes things suck. Here’s what to do about it.
Sometimes it sucks. It just does. No matter how hard you try to keep your fecal matter in one pile it just does not want to stay put. Each plan gets derailed. Creative juices run dry. Goals get stalled. Tempers flare. Yeah, it sucks. I admit that I don’t handle it as well as I’d … Read more
Stop Dialing It Back
When you’re a kid, small, even insignificant, things can teach you to dial it back and play it safe. We were poor Not dirt poor, not sharecropper poor, but we didn’t have much money. My father had been gone a long time, my now-single mother, and her mother, and my older brother were now my … Read more
Doing Important Work
A lot of people struggle with getting meaningful things done, not so much from a lack of effort as from a lack of intentional design in their life. I recently heard Seth Godin describing the work habits of Neil Gaiman. Gaiman is wicked creative, but he has learned that, if he allows himself to work … Read more
