Life Lessons


Break Away from the Pack

As younger people we were under great peer pressure to be like everyone else.  We all tried to dress like our friends.  We all tried to talk like our friends.  Remember all those fad phrases?  The idea was to fit into the crowd.  We all wanted to be in the “in crowd.”  Perhaps, there was [...]

Temper Your Expectations

Today many of us need a dose of reality.  Some want to be out of credit card debt.  Others want to lose weight.  Still others are thinking about other goals.  Getting started may be the hardest part — getting the ball rolling, that is.  However, once the ball is rolling, when we have set inertia [...]

You Can’t Determine the Direction of the Wind, You Can Set Your Sails

You and I cannot determine the direction of the wind, but we can set our sails to go where we want to go. That’s really what life is all about. Yet, most of us spend more time planning our vacations than we do planning the direction of our lives.
Having grown up along the [...]