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If you are like millions of people around the world, you have at least peeked at the Olympic games in Rio this week – whether it be the astonishing Americans Katy Ledecky and Michael Phelps in [...]

How many times have you been told that it’s a waste of time to talk about what you could have, would have or should have done?  Using these phrases keeps us focused on the past. We use them to [...]

Have you caught yourself saying something like:  I’m not as creative, smart, talented (or some other positive trait) like my brother, sister, wife, friend, parent? You may insist that this true [...]

Ten days ago I sent the manuscript for my upcoming book, Live Large – An Achiever’s Guide to What’s Next, to a publisher along with all the submission paper work they had requested.   I was sure [...]

For the many fans of A Prairie Home Companion, the live radio show hosted by Garrison Keillor, it was a week of saying good-bye.  Keillor, the forever inventive host decided to “hang it up,” [...]

New Year’s Day, beginning of the quarter, your birthday, even Independence Day.  What day do you “start over”?  What day do you draw a line under what has been, turn the page and move on with the [...]

When I got home from vacation last week, I decided to do a purge of my office, clearing off my desk and going through my papers.  In the process I discovered handouts from a great conference I [...]

The first time I went to Europe I was a teenager.  Arriving in Madrid, smelling garlic simmering in olive oil, I knew I wasn’t in Kansas (or in Jackson, Tennessee in my case) anymore.  The [...]