“No pain, no gain.” – Unknown When I was but a lad running cross country back in high school, I was largely an average runner. I didn’t really break through to the upper echelon of elite runners, despite working hard and running hard. By my junior year, there were sophomores that were beating me consistently….
It’s amazing to me sometimes how crippling fear of change can be. You start at an early age: when you do something different from the other kids, they make fun of you (well, they did to me, at least). If all the kids get average grades and you get better grades, they target you. If…
Two of the blogs I follow recently had some very interesting posts about opportunity in your life and how to take advantage of them, even if you don’t see them. The Art Of Manliness recently posted a “Manvotional” with a passage from the writings of Edward Rowland Sill, where a man is at war, complaining…
Have you ever had a sliver stuck in your skin? A sliver is a tiny little speck of wood – often from unsanded or unfinished wood – that gets embedded deep into your skin. Often, you don’t even realize you have one until hours and even days after you get it. But those tiny little…
When my fiance and I got engaged, we knew that the wedding was going to be a giant undertaking. We both have very large families and very small pocketbooks. Fortunately, we were able to balance her desire for a big, elegant wedding and my desire to save a lot of money by going the DIY…
