Aligning Yourself With People Who Have Heart

Aligning Yourself With People Who Have Heart

Who is the most compassionate, loving, positive, intuitive and joyful person you know? After spending a few minutes around them, do you find yourself wanting to be like them because of the way they make you feel?  That is a person with heart; that is Kathy Hamilton...

Aligning Yourself with People of Vision

Aligning Yourself with People of Vision

When the pandemic hit, the business model of The Outreach Program immediately broke. The model of engaging large numbers of volunteers together to package meals for the hungry was suddenly forbidden by the government.   In one day, the 16-year-old method of...

What if Our Job Was to Make Others Beautiful?

What if Our Job Was to Make Others Beautiful?

s,"I didn't know I was so pretty," the young lady said as she flipped through the proof book of her senior pictures. Her eyes welled up with tears. That was the best compliment I ever received as a photographer. For nearly a decade before the digital revolution, I...

You Can’t Do Great Work With Junk Tools

You Can’t Do Great Work With Junk Tools

"I thought you were a carpenter," my friend sort-of joked. "That's not a very straight line you cut!" "Well, like my brother Mike taught me," I replied. "You can't do great work with junk tools. He had invited me over to help him build a shed and assured me he had all...

The Gift of Asking the Right Question

The Gift of Asking the Right Question

A young lady recently asked me for my "wisdom and insight," about some questions she had. Admittedly, there was a time in my life my ego would have kicked in and I would have crawled up on a soapbox and pontificated. However, rather than wax eloquent with pompous...

Staying Positive in a Negative  Environment

Staying Positive in a Negative Environment

How do you stay positive in negative environments? Maybe it's your job, your family or your favorite social media platform that is filled with negativity. And you're drowning. What do you do? Here are some tricks I've learned: Music - I start my day with positive,...

Marvelous Marva: How to Keep Joy in Your Life

Marvelous Marva: How to Keep Joy in Your Life

“Name one thing in your life that you are in total control of,” Marva said. “Think about it; what is the one thing you’re in absolute control of?” I paused, running through an inventory of my life and searched for things, then she answered her own question. “You’re in...

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