The Security Is Opportunity

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it. – Wilferd A. Peterson Allow me to add…

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else. – Cyrus H. Curtis One of the greatest challenges of living in a society (or a community, or family, or relationship) – with its myriad influences and normative (and sometimes…

Today, and every Monday (at least for a while), I am going to review last week’s posts, choose one and create an action exercise based on some aspect of the post. This week’s Action Exercise (or at least that’s what I’m calling it right now) is investigating what it is we might really want, but…

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain I don’t normally get into politics and the like on this blog, and I’m not about to start now, but I wanted to write something appropriate for Memorial Day here in the USA. There are all sorts…

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein Success is an abstract, relative term. It’s a made-up thing, it doesn’t actually exist anywhere, like “time.” (You can show me a clock, but you can’t show me time . . . .) And it…

We hear a lot about soft skills (emotional intelligence (EI) and the like). I’ve always been a bit bothered by the characterization of such vital skills as “soft.” With the exception of such things as pillows and the like, “soft” is a pejorative – especially for men. I’m here to shift that. From now on, let’s…