I had a very enlightening experience this past week. A long time friend and I went jogging Wednesday morning. We took my normal 3 mile route to burn some pre-Thanksgiving calories while enjoying each other’s company.  By mile one I had settled into my normal pace, but my friend kept urging me to speed up.  He was full of energy…bouncing around [...]

391 years ago (1620) a group of 102 English settlers, who later became known as Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts aboard the Mayflower. Their leader was William Bradford (1590-1657) who governed the colony for most of the next 30 years. Bradford’s wife, Dorothy, drowned a few days before reaching Plymouth in Provincetown Harbor. The first winter in New England nearly [...]

While getting my haircut Friday evening, I jokingly complained to my barber about how my hairline has slowly receded over the past 10 years. He chuckled a bit and then remarked, “Over the years I’ve lost good customers simply because there’s just no hair to cut. Be grateful you have hair.” I smiled and nodded my head in agreement. “That’s [...]

Change is constant… For some of us…change is good! For others…it’s become the necessary evil we endure. Either we adapt or we agonize… Change comes…and then goes…opening the door for new change! So the question becomes…on which side of change are you? Here are a few examples of change we’ve all experienced or are currently experiencing. Which side of this [...]

This past week I read an excerpt from Seth Godin’s book Poke the Box that really stuck with me.   This passage was called “Walking in Circles”. In this piece Seth cited research that had been done by Dr. Jan Souman, of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.  This research revealed what happens to us when we have no map, no [...]