The Ultimate Investment

While in his senior year of college, Shawn took an afternoon and wrote down all that he’d like to do with his life.  He tried to be as specific as possible, yet general enough to allow for the inevitable changes life would bring.  And besides, he knew he was young and really didn’t know all [...]

Pete’s parents worried about him while he was young.  He just wouldn’t discipline himself, nor apply himself to his studies like his older brother — a straight A student.  As he grew, all he wanted to do was watch movies.  After struggling through high school, threatening to drop out several times, he moved from Utah [...]

Paul, for as long as he could remember, wanted to be a rancher.  Yet whenever he talked about it, all he could say was, “There’s no money in it.  You can’t support a family being a rancher.”  So Paul settled into a life of working the best jobs he could get, and hoped that sometime, [...]

Kyle loved working with sound systems.  While growing up he installed dozens in cars, homes, boats, you name it, he installed it.  He bought, sold, horse traded, and even custom built systems for his friends.  It was all he ever wanted to do, all he could think of doing.  His parents were worried.  Kyle didn’t [...]

It’s a Saturday morning after a long, hard week.  I’m sitting at my computer debating on whether I should mow the lawn or not.  It’s a hot day, I have lots of other things to do and I’m tired. Of course I know I should mow the lawn.  I just don’t want to.  If I [...]

In the mountains where I live there are mostly dirt roads.  When it’s raining and traffic flows ruts are carved into the roads.  When they dry out you can drive down those roads and not have to touch your steering wheel because your wheels will be moving in the ruts. Being in a rut can [...]

In the country of Pazichstanh an artist has a special talent sought after by all within the surrounding countryside.  His ability is to mold clay into head and shoulder busts of the living.  So perfect is his craft, so subtle is his power, it is said he can glimpse into the inner parts of his [...]

Brainstorming is a simple, effective way to approach problem solving of any kind.  Here’s how it works: First, find a quiet place where you won’t be disturbed.  Set aside about an hour.  Take out a clean sheet of paper and write down your problem in detail at the top of the page.  Include the parameters [...]

At my home in the mountains, I have an automatic sprinkler system tied to a new well.  Each evening the water comes on and starts my sprinklers to water my lawn and shrubs and trees. I’ve noted a diminishing water pressure from the pump causing my sprinklers to lose their reach and effectiveness.  As the [...]

“Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing.”  ~Steven Grayhm Going through life, you are conditioned not to think.  You’re taught through unpleasant experience that it’s safer to conform, to take an easy solution, then prepare with ready excuses if something goes wrong.  Gene [...]