Sad day today. We lost a good friend and comrade this past week in Don Barnes. He was an awesome therapist but more importantly – a really good guy. We’ll miss him, that’s for sure. RIP Don. I attended a gathering on mindful leadership last week. It was only a...
So I am having the first backyard party of the summer at my house later tonight … it is pretty close to the coldest August day on record. I thought when I chose this day a month or two ago – we’d be warm and in shorts … not shivering...
It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive disenchanted. - Japanese Proverb Rick and I managed to somehow align our schedules for the first time this summer, and we are both off on vacation this week. Ironically, it turns out that we won’t actually be going anywhere on our...
My friend moved to Chicago. She attended a Cubs game there the second day and was on seen on TV. She’s in the black hat. Friends all over took pictures of her on their TV’s. My uncle George once was on the Lawrence Welk show in the 70’s and danced...
This is a weirdly strange week for me. I was trying to figure it out and was telling a friend of my “dilemma”. She asked what had changed in my life. When I was growing up I had a group of friends – guys and girls – from the neighborhood...
Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. --Vince Lombardi As I was talking to another leader this week she made the comment that she doesn’t know how I do it, balancing work and raising four children....
Peeling Back the Layers I thought of the analogy of peeling back layers of wall paper in an old house and getting to the core of what the house originally looked like. What was the thought or vision of the architect when the house was built? The reason I thought...
So in the last week I (and the other leaders) participated in a ropes course in Des Moines (100 degrees and 100% humidity – 40 feet off the ground, walking on a rope), got asked to be a keynote speaker at convention in North Carolina in November (yeesh), had my...
We do not see the world as the world is, we see the world as we are. – Stephen Covey Rick and I spent the day yesterday driving to Iowa City to have Jacob and Maleigha assessed for dyslexia. It was an interesting experience, as we have been there before...
This guy named Vijali said “We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams – even if it takes a lifetime.” Yes, he’s right. I think the problem, and my dilemma, is to decipher...
