Leadership expert Mark Sanborn, recently wrote about a startling statistic - CEOs spend 67% of their time in meetings.

I'm no math…

Some everyday tools for discovering your creativity

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change. | Barbara Januszkiewicz

No one is bothered by change. What bothers them is being changed. Yet, when it comes to life, unless we are changed, there will be no…

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Henry Ford

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

~ W. C. Fields

by Pete Ferguson

I have a good friend who shared the quote with me:

Money doesn't make a man, it reveals him.

At the time I was new in the…

We often make decisions based on fear. When faced with a choice between comfort and uneasiness, we tend to side with comfort. Making that decision isn't necessarily correct or safe; it just appears to be less troublesome to our emotions. A child learns this at a young age and is able to manipulate a parent into seeing the desired outcome.

You may read the story …

Recently, my wife, Claudia, and I had a decision to make. It wasn’t super important, but important enough. We dragged our feet and took far too long to make our decision. We were wishy-washy and indecisive.

The good news is, we DID make a decision.

The bad news is, now we’re NOT SURE if we like it.

Have you ever experienced this? You struggle and struggle to make a decision and then you have second thoughts?

I know I have.…

While he had tenure, job security, was in good standing with his peers and respected by his students, there was a tug in his spirit that pulled him toward a life and a lifestyle that required more freedom and flexibility than what was available in his classroom.…

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do (Ephesians 2:10).

If you're like me, you spend a lot of time analyzing your present situation in trying to confirm that you and God are on the same page. We want…

The garden was a perfect place. The water was pure. The sky was blue. The bugs were friendly. There was no overcrowding, unemployment, or political controversy. It was perfect.

In the middle of the garden was one limitation, one forbidden element. It was there because the opportunity to disobey makes obedience meaningful. Without that limitation, existence in the garden would…

Yesterday we talked about how our preconceived notions can cloud our vision. Today, we'll take a look at the power of our personal choices.

We all like to make choices and there's nothing wrong with that. God gave us a free will and often allows us to choose from among several options. Some choices are insignificant; others, however, have the potential to affect our lives for…

Among the many things she learned about herself, two of the best pieces she picked up involved setting boundaries, and planningfor the life she wants. (Jump to Podcast)

PaMela from…

We often make the mistake of viewing today's decisions as relevant only to today. Wisdom, however, tells us that all of life is connected. Some of today's experiences are directly connected to decisions made days, months, or years ago. We change our futures by making better choices today.

This message…

Attitude isn’t everything, or is it? Our attitudes affect how we view life and how we deal with challenges. Attitudes affect our perception of today and our optimism about tomorrow. With the right attitude, we can handle bad news and get through tough days. Bad attitudes seem to have the opposite effect. Bad attitudes allow us to view great things as adequate, minor challenges as…

Are we intentional

An open letter to the lady I encountered twice within five minutes.

Dear You,

You're right; this is your world and the rest of us are just living in it! I was driving through a business area and you were exiting the parking lot of a popular restaurant. So far, so good. However, it would have been nice if you would have stopped to see if any traffic was coming before entering the road. Something told me…

Traffic officers in Oregon say Jose Romero-Valenzuela was in such a hurry to make a court date that he racked up $2,000 worth of speeding tickets in an hour.

The man was traveling west on Interstate 84 and got pulled over three times – first at 105 mph, then at 98 mph and finally at 92 mph. Police say the last ticket appeared to have an effect. Down the road a bit, a trooper set up watch and clocked him at the limit, 65…

Researchers tell us that the average woman uses about 20,000 words per day; the average man uses about 7,000 per day. Now, don't expect me to explain the difference between these two numbers! That is outside the scope of this article and the wisdom I've developed over the past 35 years of marriage!

It is obvious that we all use a lot of words. So, which word is the most…

One of my favorite college courses to teach is Problem Solving and Effective Thinking. In this course, I introduce the concept of "decision debt." This is the cumulative effect of making bad decisions. Dave Ramsey has encouraged us to get out of financial debt by making better decisions with our money. My goal is to help eliminate decision debt by teaching people to make…

Wrapped in the throes of uncertainty and emotional chaos, she came to a sobering realization; the only way she could grow from this experience, would be to turn it completely over to God. (Jump…

I was thinking about teenagers the other day and how I really want to take my hand, put it on their heads and transfer "all" my wisdom so they avoid making the same mistakes I did.

I know this won't happen....unfortunately...

You have heard of hindsight, right?  The definition of hindsight according to dictionary.com is -