“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop Because, regardless of what happens outside of you, when you’re kind, you chip away at any hardness covering over your soul.

Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company. You own your career! – Earl Nightingale Are you acting as if you own your career, or are you just renting it from your current employer? Are you doing only what’s necessary to…

This week’s external resource is a transcript of an interview with Mirabai Bush. She teaches meditation and mindfulness. The article describes different programs she has been involved with and the myriad benefits of increased mindfulness: better listening, team work, stress and anger management and improved health. I want you to read the article, but more…

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your troubles you wouldn’t sit for a month. – Theodore Roosevelt There really little I can add here. We are not responsible for what others do, but we are responsible for who we have in our lives. We are not responsible for…

I recently read a post on Johnny B. Truant’s blog that really hit home. So much so that I wanted to do two things: share it with my readers and 2) think on and write about each piece of his post. The post is “20 Truths About Life No One Wants To Believe” and the seventh one I…

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.” – Socrates Anything you want to do has been done, and written about… sort of. I believe there are two key things we can learn from those who have gone before: 1) that…

“It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.” – John Wooden Often, many of us, are easily distracted by the new, the shiny, the novel. And big things. We take note of grand accomplishments and gestures. Yet we don’t notice so much. Our brains are natural filtering mechanisms. There’s simply too…