Self-Care: Creating Healthy Habits for Our Mental Health
ore than ever, awareness of self-care has increased and continues to create a pivot in our society, as seen by the rise in the number of self-care publication articles. However, we are also seeing an upward trend: burnout, with more than half of all employees facing moderate to high levels of burnout. Whatever the occupation, […]
Motherhood and restorative rest
I love the feeling of a refresh. The feel of freshly mowed grass under my feet, the first rest on bedding that has been freshly laundered. The feel of starting a new journal from scratch, clean and crisp pages demanding to be scribbled on. The new year feels that way for me, those first few […]
Get Help
What do Rudolph, Ole and James have in common? All three were exceptional inventors who lacked basic business sense. They were brilliant but refused to ask for help. Rudolph was fascinated by the emerging automobile industry and experimented until he created the best engine of his time. His engine performed better and lasted longer but […]
Constant Improvement
Arthur was reared in a devout Christian family that believed in hard work. Arthur knew he wanted to build a successful business. He decided to pick one thing and constantly improve it until it was the best. Only then would he sell his product. While working for a railroad, he first saved money. Then he […]
Running Over Obstacles
Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.” This especially applies to a young child with polio, the 20th of 22 children from her father’s two marriages. She had both pneumonia and scarlet fever as a child and contracted polio when she was five. She recovered […]
Be Nice
Bill was born in Oklahoma in 1921. His dad was a cattle rancher. Bill attended Northeastern State University in Oklahoma and enlisted in the United States Navy in 1942. After the war, Bill moved to California and founded a candy company he named “California Confections”. While building his company he attended the First Presbyterian Church of […]
Think Differently
“Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.” Before Stanley Arnold became known for this quote, he was a teenager with an uncertain future. Stanley was interested in athletics in high school but was so physically limited that nothing he did worked. He did poorly in every sport he tried and could not […]
You Can Make It Through
Sometimes an unexpected encounter with someone can reveal a great lesson. Amy and I were finishing a meal at a local restaurant when we met another couple. We shared some stories from our different backgrounds and the woman told us a hilarious story from her career as a high school teacher. Told here with her […]
Connect with People
Recently I unexpectedly received information about a slice of my Father’s past that I never knew existed. My wife Amy and I were eating in a local restaurant when I saw a man enter to pick up an order. I walked over to the man and asked about him. I had known and liked him […]
Mental Belief
On September 27, 1965, Air Force Colonel George Hall was flying a reconnaissance mission near Hanoi in North Vietnam when his jet was hit by anti-aircraft fire. His plane burst into flames and he ejected and parachuted to the ground where he was captured by communist forces. Colonel Hall was placed in solitary confinement in […]
