The Ultimate Investment

I’ve always heard the saying, “When a student is ready a teacher will come.” This is true. There are teachers all around us. Everything we see, everything we do contains a lesson. The next time you notice something interesting, stop and ponder. Ask yourself what you can learn from what you just noticed. Then sit [...]

I recently attended the funeral of a friend who’d suffered an accidental death.  Prior to the funeral there was a viewing where friends and relatives could offer condolences to the surviving family.  This friend left a wife and five children.  Two of the children are grown and married with children of their own.  He also [...]

Lisa thought she would enjoy being in business, so as she attended a university, she declared business as her major.  She graduated with her bachelor’s degree and wasn’t quite settled with what she finally wanted to end up doing, so she started going for a master’s degree in business.  One semester away from graduating she [...]

Sharon had saved up for a long time to go on a special vacation to Hawaii.  She’d figured out her whole itinerary.  Everything she wanted to see and do was planned out to the minute.  When she got there, she rushed from site to site, activity to activity, trying to get everything done she’d planned.  [...]

Walt Disney suffered a near nervous breakdown just as he was reaching a pivotal point in his career.  At that point, on the advice of his doctors, he took time off and got completely away from his work, leaving it in other’s hands (a thing he had struggled doing before).  He had to relinquish a [...]

Sarah was the director of training for a group of over 120 volunteers.  During that time she would routinely work with regional directors to set production goals with each individual volunteer they were responsible for.  She soon saw that about twelve percent of the volunteers really took goal setting seriously.   Those who set realistic goals, [...]

The Old Testament teaches:  “Where there is no vision, the people perish:” (Proverbs 29:18) There are as many ways to realize your dreams as your imagination can create.  Obviously, some routes are better than others.  But like building a house, or taking a long vacation, to get the most out of it, you need a [...]

Kirk was a college English professor, but his love was writing science fiction.  He taught during the day, and in his off hours wrote short stories.  He’s sold a few, but hasn’t really hit the big time yet.  He doesn’t stop.  No matter the amount of money, he’s doing what he loves. Not making large [...]

In order to follow your dream, you may have to let go of what you’re already doing.  It may feel like jumping off a cliff hoping that you’ll land safely.  That’s pretty scary.  But this isn’t really what you’re going to do.  You may have heard the phrase, “You need to risk big in order [...]

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 [...]