The quote below is from the novel Winged Legend: The Life of Amelia Earhart by John Burke. Something drives humanity on toward a goal it cannot visualize, and certain individuals feel the impulse more strongly than others. A few days after Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared and hope for their recovery was abandoned, Walter [...]

The quote is from Napoleon Hill… the idea is not a new one.  Most businesses start with a dream, a vision, an idea of what could be created. I’ve recently been working with two different organizations that took on a dream and created a reality.  It took work, energy, effort and faith.  In both cases [...]

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all [...]

I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden. I will push you onward or drag you down to failure. I am completely at your command. Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly. [...]

What is your symphony? What notes, measures and tempo would your symphony include? “To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy , not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, [...]

I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that’s unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given you, because you would not [...]

Ever feel lost lost,  without direction or purpose?  Where do you find ‘explosion’…   people, work, music, movies, nature, etc?  When the calendar flips from one year to a new one… or one decade to another, many of us pause and look at where we are on our journey.  Are you learning and growing toward [...]

There is only one admirable form of imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen, whether it be a political thing, or a social thing or a work of art. –Sean O’Faolain

“I’m sorry about your dad,” the football coach said to one of his players whose father had died the previous week. “Coach, please let me start Saturday,” the players asked. Now the player was strictly back-up and only saw playing time when the game was either won or hopelessly lost. But the coach read the [...]

I am speaking to the Bainbridge Island Rotary Club (a big shout out and thank you for the invitation by the way)… I’m presenting on purpose and service. As I prepare for my presentation I’m present to how much better life works, how much better I work, when I’m aligned with my purpose.  Kids’ books [...]