The past few weeks I’ve been away on vacation.  I’ve spent my time away exploring parts of the Southern Hemisphere which for a portion of my travels took me to the jungles of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. While in Kimbe, I joined a group of fellow explorers on a hike through the jungle and up to the summit of Mount [...]

A few years ago I had the privilege of listening to David Gergen (don’t recognize the name…google him) speak at a Leadership Summit in the Chicago area. I took a lot of great nuggets away from his talk…others of which I’ll probably share in the future, but one that really stuck out was as follows: “Motion is not progress…” There [...]

Life is a gift. …and to enhance this gift are all the wonderful people around us who are experiencing the same gift of life. I believe completely opening ourselves to the combination of these two gifts is what leads to a truly fulfilling life. Let me explain… Yesterday I crossed off a goal on my bucket list that a few [...]

This past week I’ve struggled a bit with the fact that we all are entering the 6th month of 2012 so soon. The beginning of next month will place us at the half-way mark of this year. I don’t know about you…but for me…it seems the pace with which time is moving is unreasonably and excessively swift! …and along with ’time’s‘ untiring [...]