The Ultimate Investment

Keeping a personal journal does more than just record history.  It can help you stay on the right track.  In your journal you will want to record the things you did right, what you learned and how good that felt.  You will also want to record what you did wrong, what you learned, how bad [...]

When you were younger, you probably had someone you really looked up to.  In some cases, the desire to be like this person was so strong within that it caused you to want to dress like that person, talk like that person, act like that person.  A mental image of being like this person began [...]

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 let [...]

In the pasture at the front of our home there’s a tall, old evergreen tree standing which long ago had been hit by lightning literally splitting it in half.  Rather than die, it held on and grew to a towering height – but in two halves. 
It’s an amazing sight and an even more amazing lesson [...]

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 be [...]

Martha was a divorced mother of three living in poverty.  On and off welfare rolls, she’d recently moved hoping for a new start.  She had interview after interview hoping to find a job, any job, but she was never hired.  Why?  She had all the skills, her health was good, she had a desire to [...]

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 you [...]

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 pressure [...]

“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 worked for [...]