Personal Development Scavenger Hunt
Who says personal development can’t be fun?! This activity is one of the many practices I use with our Lifestyle By Design group. It is an excellent way to propel your growth and gain some insights into who you really are.
What Does It Feel Like To Run 100 Miles?
From the mouths of babes
I had a really interesting conversation with my 11 year old daughter and thought it worthy of a share. It was Monday evening and we were on our way to basketball. M asked if she could pick a song from my iPhone. I said sure and handed it over. She chose Nickelback’s Burn it to […]
Words to Live By: “Responsive”
Quite some time ago I wrote an article entitled “Words to Live By” where I talked about looking at the words with which you think people use to describe you and contrasting them with the words you would like them to use to describe you. I still use this as a barometer to try and […]
Happy New Day!!
It is New Years day and as I sit back and reflect on the past year and watch others do the same, I can’t help but think that there has got to be a better way to do the whole “Out with the old, in with the new” thing. Striving to make big changes, new […]
Brain Food: What do you eat?
2013 was a year in which I really focused on my physical fitness and it certainly paid dividends. I am in better physical shape then I have ever been in my life. As I sit and reflect and look forward to my 2014 goals I feel compelled to put the emphasis on intellectual development. We […]
Goal Setting to Goal Achieving: The ‘not so secret’ ingredients
Inevitably, this time of year, we start reflecting on what we accomplished last year and look forward to what we might like to accomplish in the next. This post may be nothing more than stating the obvious but I thought it is a concept that might sometimes go overlooked. I was on the treadmill the […]
All I want for Christmas…
Well, it’s that time of year again. The requests from the family to get your Christmas lists in has begun. This year all I want for Christmas is: A goat 2 Chickens A sheep a donkey and Fresh Water For many of us the real joy at Christmas time is in the giving not the […]
Thirteen years ago
Thirteen years ago today my life changed forever. While you often hear that having kids will change your life, I am not sure you ever really understand the full impact of that statement. Christopher you have made an enormous impact on my life and likely more than you will understand until you too have a […]
Don’t treat your mortgage like rent!
For many first-time buyers it is easy to get into a new home and a mortgage and continue to treat it the same way you did when you were renting. You can make a significant impact on how quickly you payoff your mortgage by just paying a little attention to it. While renting you get […]