Life

  • Strive for Clarity: One Tip For Every Area of Life

    Strive for Clarity: One Tip For Every Area of Life

    I’ve learned one lesson over and over the last few months… Always strive for clarity. It’s a great leadership tip. It’s a great communication tip. It’s a great parenting tip. It’s a great life tip. Strive to be clear with who you are, what you say, what you write, and what you do.

  • On Safely Dying or Dying Effectively

    On Safely Dying or Dying Effectively

    We avoid risks in life so we can make it safely to death. – Unknown Think about it…. Many of us go through life just trying to make it through. Making it to the next day. To the next weekend. To the next vacation. To the next project. To the next task.

  • 3 Family Fun Tips: How to not kill each other this holiday season

    3 Family Fun Tips: How to not kill each other this holiday season

    It’s the holiday season. For some, they put family and fun together this time of year. For other people, though, they just can’t make the two words go together. Now, before I continue, I have to offer a disclaimer…. I have a great family. Both my immediate family and my in-laws (outlaws better explains…

  • Lift With Your Friends, Not Your Back

    Lift With Your Friends, Not Your Back

    A few months ago, I was getting ready to go somewhere and accidentally dropped my wedding ring behind the dresser. You know how this goes… I’m in a hurry to leave the house. No one else is at home but me. I know my wife is meeting me and I need my wedding ring.…

  • Green Dreams, Small Sprigs, and Doing Something Big

    Green Dreams, Small Sprigs, and Doing Something Big

    Melissa and I lived in an apartment until about 6 months ago. The first spring we were living in the apartment, we decided that we wanted to have some live plants around the place. That decision (like many of our decisions) kind of happened out of nowhere… actually, while we were in Dollar Tree.…