A box of bones – for some people, that’s all that’s left of their life on this earth. Such folks have spent all their money. They accumulated some cars, a flat screen TV and a mortgaged house. Their children miss them as well as a few friends, but not many other people notice much. That’s […]
Most people I encounter are trying to do good. There are lots of ways to do good, and different people have different ideas of what doing good means. I’ve discovered that doing good is not living a legacy – at least according to many people’s idea of doing good. Being Good I see two main […]
According to a 2013 report from Gallup, 70% of employees in the workforce are not engaged or are actively disengaged in their work. Though I don’t do rigorous studies like Gallup, I would guess that this number would probably reflect how many people are disengaged from life in general. Whether it’s in the workplace or […]
When I ask, “What are you living for?” I’m not suggesting that you give up. I’m asking what it is that gets you up in the morning and makes you go again for another day. It turns out that this is a pretty tricky question. Often, we don’t really know what we are living for. […]
I’m trying something new. Obviously, when I ask, “are you a pyromaniac,” I don’t mean this in a literal sense. To see what I am talking about I’d like you click the following link to see the lyrics of a song by Switchfoot, “Amy’s Song.” And if you’re in a place where you can play […]
The memory is burned bright in my mind. The sun is shining outside. My baby sister is getting bathed in the kitchen sink. She is smiling as warm water streams down her head soaking her hair. I decide to go see what my dad is doing in the garage. I don’t even get to the […]
The quality of our life will depend a lot on the questions we ask. We can chose to not ask questions and just accept things, and our life will be stuck. Or we can ask questions. We can even dare to ask great questions. Some questions aren’t going to help us much in life – […]
In 2004, a group of researchers at John Hopkins University found that even after heart patients had open heart, bypass surgery, only 3% of them changed their lifestyle. The rest of them had to have additional procedures costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. It turns out it’s pretty difficult for us to make lasting change […]
When I had my heart attack in 2005, I had an awakening. I learned that life is too short to just live it casually – as if nothing important is happening. But I had a hard time reconciling what I had learned with what I saw most people doing. In fact, I thought there was […]
People don’t normally see the color of our underwear. It’s usually hidden. So we could be wearing rocket ship, space pirate, underwear and no one would know. We could also be wearing old ratty torn underwear and no one would know this either. Like our underwear, there are often other things that we keep hidden […]
