01/25/202301/25/2023Awareness, Beliefs, Career, Greatness, Happiness, Living, Success When the Teacher Is Ready, the Student (Teacher) Will Appear One of the things about life that continually amuses me is irony… People who have attended my workshops and speeches and engaged […]
12/09/202212/11/2022Awareness, Communication, Compassion, Decisions, Happiness, Love A Simple–But Profoundly Powerful–Question Over the years, I have taught people that the quality of life they are able to live will depend—in large measure—on how […]
08/28/202208/28/2022Accomplishments, Awareness, Beliefs, Blessings, Career, Caring, Compensation, Compliments, Contribution, Giving, Gratitude, Greatness, Happiness, Heroes, Inspiration, Joy, Kindness, service, Success, Work Your talents are not for you alone–they belong to the world. I was loading my paintings into our truck to travel to my first art festival. My wife noticed that I had left […]
04/17/202204/17/2022Caring, Compassion, Contribution, Empathy, Encouragement, Giving, Greatness, Happiness, Influence, Kindness, Love, service Love Is Life’s Largest Lesson In 1965, I heard a beautiful song on the radio. Jackie DeShannon was singing, “What the world needs now is love, sweet […]
03/17/202203/17/2022Contribution, Epiphany, Influence, Kindness, Love, service One of Life’s Greatest Epiphanies In my early 20s, I engaged in volunteer service in California. One of my colleagues was a musician—as was I. One day […]
02/27/202202/27/2022Caring, Compassion, Kindness, Love, service God has Entrusted Us to Each Other’s Care Human beings have a tendency to consider information only when it comes from a favored source. I can remember how people snickered […]
02/17/202202/17/2022Encouragement, Support We Have No Right… When I was in third grade, I accompanied my mother to an after-school, parent-teacher meeting. I was told to sit on a […]
02/17/202202/17/2022Awareness, Giving, Greatness, Heroes Heroes Don’t Just Do Their Best, They Do What Has to Be Done Years ago, I came across an inspiring book that was written by Thomas Carlyle and published in 1840. “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and […]
02/17/202202/17/2022Empathy, Giving, Greatness, service The World Needs Fewer People with Sympathy and More People with Empathy When I was 16, I applied for a job picking pineapples for Dole on Molokai in Hawaii. I felt honored when I […]
12/20/201801/01/2019Greatness The Truly Great Walk Among Us “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect […]