Imagine you're on a plane, and the flight attendant reminds you: "Put on your own oxygen mask before helping others." It’s a simple instruction, yet so many of us ignore it in our own lives. We push t...

"You will never forget a person who came to you with a torch in the dark."  M. Rose

The thing about Struggle is that everybody has it, everyone can see it and most people would rather run away fro...

Victor Frankl once said, “Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” It’s a beautiful truth, bu...

When the brush hits the paper the bristles lead the way.  The colors are picked randomly as they come to me.  Today I sit in my cold studio and open the palette of options.  Watching my neighbor sweep...

The edge of the pool is cold and harsh and we stand in a line watching one of our instructors thrash around in the water as if he was drowning.  I am 11 years old and today I am on the final leg of th...

Here I sit in the middle of 1000 people who had consumed the conference learnings for the last three days.  I realize that I am in the middle of the room and escape will be difficult. Sitting in cerem...

Its officially winter this morning and as I sit watching the sun rise a text dings from my neighbor about the power outage.  We are on solar power so we never know about power outages.  I was grateful...

"You are too smart to be the only thing standing in your way."

Welcome to the War Room.  Its a place where the maps showing soldiers in battle are laid out.   In the left corner of this room is a ...

"When The Going gets tough, the tough get going."

This phrase came about as a motivational technique to entice athletes to overcome the hardship of competition.  It is meant to encourage those athlet...

"Love yourself first because that is who you will be spending the rest of your life with."

 I am sitting on my bed with cloths all around me. We are getting ready to head out to Westlock, Alberta ...

"No wasted time, we're alive today

Churning up the past, there's no easier way

Time's been between us, a means to an end

God it's good to be here walking together my friend"

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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