In the last year, have you had opportunities at work to learn and grow? According to research about successful companies, the more of you who can say “yes” to that question, the stronger we will be. So when it comes to you, what would you say? What lessons have you learned? What skills have you […]

This is a blatant cut-and-paste job on my part of a post by educator Danny Steele. I’ve adopted a couple of thoughts from reading about Teach for America, an innovative teacher training program that recruits non-traditional candidates to teach underserved students in impoverished areas. The thoughts are: “Teaching is leadership.” The teacher is committed to […]

I was listening to pastor Rick Warren talk about growing spiritually.  He said those of us who are growing are doing these three things: “Get it. Got it. Give it!” “Get it” is the learning stage.  We read books.  We ask questions.  We stay open to upping our game.  If we are improving in life, we are […]

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – President John F. Kennedy   As I read this, it caused me to reflect on hard things.  I’ve been part of hard things before.    Sometimes they were forced upon me.  The circumstances causing […]