Beware of Mediocrity

”Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” –Aristotle...

The Art of “Allowing”

  I know a person who has an opinion about everyone.  It is interesting and sometimes comedic to listen to because the focus is always about how others should speak, act, and live.  I find these opinions even more comedic because they come from someone who has a...

The Fat File

Do you keep a file that holds all of the awards, recognition and comments made to you about your performance?  I do.  I keep everything written about my performance by the companies for whom I have worked in addition to the customers and clients I have served and I...

Thriving Souls and Serial Victims

“Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim–letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.” ~C.R. Strahan Observation...

Balancing the Teeter Totter!

When my brothers and I were kids, we loved hitting the playground so we could play on the teeter-totter.  We all knew that in order to balance and not have one of us sitting on the ground while the lighter one was held captive in the air, we needed to adjust where we...