What can I Learn from Bailey?

Today is a sad day. Yesterday, (as I write this it is July 31st) I had to put one of my beloved dogs to sleep. He was 12 years old and had been battling serious health issues for about 4 months. He was a fighter but yesterday it was clear that he was tired of…

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What are Your Emotional Struggles?

Emotions are feelings that we all experience. Some emotions we think of as positive – such as love, hope, optimism, and joy. Others we often perceive as negative – hate, anger, pessimism, and resentment. However, I would submit that there really aren’t positive and negative emotions. Feelings just are. We may be happy or sad…

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What are Your Accomplishment Goals?

That seems like a reasonable enough question. I mean everyone needs goals for what they would like to accomplish – right? While that certainly may be true, the question turns into what kinds of things do we want to accomplish and are there differences that matter? Things that people want to accomplish run the gamut.…

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What are You Modeling?

We frequently read those startling statistics regarding the number of hours that teens spend with their eyes glued to their computer screens, phones, or television.  But a recent study reported that parents might have a lot more in common with their teens than you might imagine. “Common Sense Media,” a nonprofit organization, found that parents…

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What Are You Feeding?

You come in from work exhausted to the smell of freshly baked bread.  Following the scent, you head for the kitchen but along with way you trip over a toy carelessly left in your path.  Immediately your blood begins to boil.  Arriving in the kitchen you find your spouse who is baking the bread along…

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What Are You Doing?

 I want to share today a story that comes from General Colin Powell. I once watched a TV documentary about the Empire State Building. For most of the hour, the documentary toured the wonders of the building – its history and structure: how many elevators it had, how many people worked or visited there, how…

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