As I walked into a retail store recently to perform a mystery shopping job, I was greeted, “Hi, how are you?” The greeting seemed kind but robotic. I responded with a smile and a brief, “Fine, thanks.” “Oh rats!” I thought. “I didn’t mean…
Most people throw out an idea before it is ever give a chance to reach it’s full potential. Ideas, like plants, need time to grow. They need to be planted and cultivated. They need to be cared for and given a healthy environment in which…
Over the years, consistency and I have had a few run-ins and we haven’t always hit it off so well. Someone who is super consistent is Chris Guillebeau. He has traveled extensively and is actually on route to travel to every single country in the world by the time he…
When Michael and I got married, our dream was to honeymoon in Switzerland. We didn’t have much money, so we decided to save all of our change in Mason jars till the wedding and “Hopefully” we thought, “It will be enough to buy us plane tickets…
We recently mentioned in our Sunday video that we had some awesome people stop by to do an interview with us on their way to NYC. What we didn’t mention is that they brought along an artist/visionary named Randall Gingerich to draw us a picture. While…
If any of you have ever seen the movie “The Horse Whisperer” you will remember the part of the horse whisperer being played by Robert Redford. The actual horse whisperer, the one that the movie was based on, is a man named Buck Brannaman.…
“Seasons change – let them change” ~Sylvia Good The squirrels have been more active the last week or so, and so have the school busses. I actually just saw leaves falling off of a tree today as well. The signs are immanent that summer is starting to…
The results are in for my StrengthFinder 2.0 test. And whoa, people, if you have never done this, let me just say it is powerful! I was amazed that the book knew me so well! I think it was the result of that little old…
The light is a gift; but the local color can only be seen by the one who looks for it long and steadily. ~Henry Van Dyke Sometimes the road ahead is blocked, at least the sight of it. It is blocked by boulders. They…
I had an idea once. It was just a silly idea, I thought. I didn’t know where it came from. It just popped into my head one day as I lay on the top bunk in a small camp-style wooden bunker in the outback…
