Stop Gritting Your Teeth and Start Looking For Gold
"I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search, finding beauty where I did not want to look." - Suzy Kassem, 'Rise Up...
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- May 7, 2022
- 4 min
Oops, Did I Just Go Over The Line?
“You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.” Marcus Buckingham, author, business consultant...
- May 5, 2022
- 3 min
Unchecked Assumptions Can Screw Up The Works
"It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind." Sebastian Thrun, CEO, entrepreneur, computer scientist Unchecked...
- May 3, 2022
- 4 min
What Are Your Strengths - What's Good About You?
“The purpose of life is to discover your gift; the work of life is to develop it; and the meaning of life is to give your gift away.” —...
- Apr 14, 2022
- 4 min
What the World Needs Now Is Love
I’ve been reading and thinking about this thing we call “love” (a close cousin to compassion) for many years. I’ve read various theories...
- Mar 31, 2022
- 4 min
Dying Well
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. Epicurus I know it's coming up - Mother's Day, but my mother is dead. Now I am...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
Should You Forgive? Why? How?
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. American author, Norman Cousins My father died in 2006. A few days after his service my mother and I...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 3 min
How To Be Braver
Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” ―Maya...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
The Ultimate Path To The Good Life?
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” Dalai Lama Over the holidays last year, we...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
How To Stop Being Quite So Foolish On All The Other Days
“And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect....
- Mar 29, 2022
- 5 min
What's Your Vision of The Good Life?
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. Carl Jung...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
Start A Virtuous Cycle
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members. Coretta Scott King My husband,...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 3 min
How To Quieten Our Ego For The Good Of Everyone
“Big egos have little ears.” Robert Schuller Family members strung out particularly around the West Coast, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 3 min
Using Restorative Practices In Schools, Creating A Better World
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. Irish proverb “Don’t smile until Christmas!” That was the ridiculous chorus...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 3 min
Play Can Help Us Be More Sensitive and Tough
“People tend to forget that play is serious.” ~ David Hockney The clock says a bit past midnight, then 2 a.m., then 4. What is keeping...
- Mar 29, 2022
- 4 min
Finding What Gives Us Hope
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” Desmond Tutu Life may look bleak these days as we focus on a...
- Mar 20, 2022
- 4 min
Getting on the Ancient Path To The Good
"Virtue isn’t demanding more of others; it’s expecting more of yourself." Frank Sonnenberg, author and advocate for moral character and...
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