"The truly creative people tend to be outliers" (Nolan Bushnell). I recently started reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, a book about success and how a lot of opportunity stems from relative chance. I purchased the book after seeing it in the Psychology section of a Barnes n Noble and thought it looked interesting. Later, after taking... Continue Reading →

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity" (T. S. Eliot). It seems that today people are more ok with blaming something dumb they did or thought on their anxiety. While most if not all of us have anxiety, we seem to pretend anxiety is a problem but one we all inherit and have to deal with.... Continue Reading →

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the... Continue Reading →

"Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along" (Paramahansa Yogananda). Self-awareness is one thing and self-improvement is another. We understand how our perception of ourselves might sometimes be skewed and other times fairly accurate. We try and improve how we see things and... Continue Reading →

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily" (Zig Ziglar). No matter how long it takes to reach a goal, as long as we stay consistent to reach toward it, we are making progress. Even if that progress is doing it once a week for... Continue Reading →

"A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson" (John Henrik Clarke). Everyone knows how hard it is to keep attention to something you don't feel requires your 100 percent focus. What we neglect to consider is how hard it must be for the speaker... Continue Reading →

Have you ever experienced a time when you were reading a compelling story and you were waiting for the explanation of its importance... and that never comes? You invest in a story that may feel purely like entertainment when what you were trying to get out of it is information. For now, I’m going to... Continue Reading →

"Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive" (Jamais Cascio). There are a lot of times when I've felt lazy. But there are even more times when I've screwed up my scheduling unintentionally with obstacles I disregarded having to encounter. Even with... Continue Reading →

"The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave" (Ronald Reagan). Recently I was taken by my boss to a meeting. I had only been to two prior meetings with our own staff and coming from two kitchen jobs at 19, I never felt I had the authority to talk. I was... Continue Reading →