“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I’ve heard a variation of this theme three times this week. I regard it as a “sign” that I should share. Goethe’s idea is that people tend to rise […]

Do you speak your mind? Let me tell you what I mean. Chances are: We do things that you don’t understand.  Do you ask questions, when you don’t know the reasons why? You see the potential to improve how we do things.  Do you pose those suggestions to someone who could help make them happen? You see […]

“Good, better, best.  Never let it rest…until your good is better and your better is best!” Heard that saying at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes camp almost 30 years ago.  It goes along with my word for 2020 which was “progress.” Seems to me, a strategy to get better every day is a sound one. To get […]

If you study the war, you learn King George’s strategy was to wage a war of endurance.  He’d just throw more people and guns at us until we were exhausted and quit from fatigue.  He underestimated the will of the Americans to have their freedom.  His country was ultimately the one who surrendered. Here’s what […]