• Stations: How Community Leads to Happiness

    As I sit here, alone, in my dark, home office, I want to share with you what I have learned about community and it’s role in work and happiness in my life. Third Place Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz, made the term “The third place,” popular in his book, Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks…

  • Top 10 Best Ways to Build a Positive Attitude

    1. Choose positive thinking friends. Lift each other up! 2. See problems as challenges. Successful people overcome! 3. Say “I can” more than “I can’t”. You can do it! 4. Expect good things to happen. Set yourself up for success! 5. Find the good in any situation. Look on the bright side of life! 6.…

  • Rise Up to a Beautiful Day

    The last dream I had before waking up involved an elderly class alumni group getting up and singing a praise and worship song together as a presentation. One of the members was playing piano and leading the song. It was a traditional song that (in the dream) I recognized as being a traditional hymn that…

  • Managing Forward

    We have gone through several changes in the last year including a major facelift, a name change, an identity crisis, and now a new way forward.  It’s time we stop managing our thoughts and start to manage our actions. From now on you can expect to find fresh content daily on subjects ranging from self-development…

  • Theres a Reason Why Life Rymes with Wife

    I’m really sick of people constantly asking me to make life-changing decisions. I am not good at making decisions. My personal philosophy for the last three years has been the following: Surround myself with people that I like Dissasociate with those who hurt me Be happy as long as it is not at the expense…