Does familiarity breed contempt?

  We’ve all heard the saying ‘familiarity breeds contempt’. Old clichés like this don’t exist for no reason. They exist and persist because somehow their truths play out generation after generation. This particular saying’s origin is linked back to one of Aesop’s fables, “The Fox and the Lion”. Here is the fable: “When first the Fox Read More

The Danger of Denying Change

A friend and I recently joked around with a few people we had just met at a social gathering that between the two of us we knew ‘everything’! Initially, there were looks of contempt and confusion, but then the joke served its purpose and got quite a bit of laughter. I do believe it’s safe Read More

Pigeonholed?

All of us know or have known someone within our professional lives that is or has been in a pigeonhole (to be stagnate, with little opportunity or growth in your current career for a long period of time). They’re OKAY…sometimes even great at what they do, but lack the attitude, skill, will and/or emotional intelligence Read More

What are you waiting for?

  What’s that one thing that you just need to happen?….and if it happens…all the doors will just swing wide open! How long have you been waiting for this one thing? All of us tend to have that thing, that excuse…that reason…why we can’t do something great…something risky…something we’re passionate about…something that will make us Read More

The Promise of Consistency

Have you ever seen something old, that you see everyday, for the very first time?  This happened to me recently while headed to work. On this particular morning I hadn’t had a chance to eat or have my morning coffee, so as I sat at a stop light my eyes quite naturally landed on a Read More

Inspired?

I have two questions. How do you get inspired? How do you  stay inspired? Do you know?  If so share it with me. (Leave a comment…I can never know enough about receiving inspiration.) If you don’t know, have you thought about the implications that a lack of inspiration can have on your will to get things Read More

Capable and average, is capable of more than average!

  All too often I’m baffled at how we place people who are categorized as successful, in an untouchable category.  It is as if the stories of their achievements closely mirror the heroics of Greek Mythology, and our own lives mirror that of a Greek tragedy. We tend to forget that the people we look Read More

Control Your Mind, Control Your World

  Recently a friend of mine was scanning through the music on my iPhone.  As he perused my music he came across my ‘Morning’ playlist. After reviewing the songs in this playlist he asked, “Why do you have a ‘Morning’ playlist?”I smiled and responded, “Let’s listen to a few of the songs then you tell me.”He Read More

3 Inspirational Lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dr. King has been a source of inspiration for me, since I was a child. It was Dr. King (by way of my elementary school teachers) who first introduced me to the idea of dreaming and standing steadfast in a dream. To honor Dr. King, on the day that has been set aside to celebrate his Read More

2019 – New Beginnings

Here we are…2019! Another year has started and it’s hard to believe that 2018 has come and gone so quickly. The start of a new year is exhilarating because it presents new possibilities.  For at least a week most of us believe wholeheartedly in ourselves and our ability to seize new opportunity. A new year Read More