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Our recent celebration of Valentine’s Day has got me reflecting about love. I am recalling a class I taught to high school students over 40 years ago. The course was titled: Literature of Love and Loneliness. What I learned most from my students was how confused they...

Scotoma comes from a Greek word that means blind spot. You have likely experienced a physical blind spot while driving. You wanted to change lanes so you looked in the sideview mirror to see if a car was coming. Nope. As you begin to veer into the next lane, you hear...

Potential is an attribute of every human being and of everything in creation. Our potential is what we are capable of becoming. A friend recently shared with me that there was a time in her life when she wasn’t very smart and she certainly wasn’t athletic. She now...

Last week we focused on the Rule of 90/10 and how our inner world (our thoughts, opinions, and beliefs) has a significantly greater impact on our happiness and the quality of our experiences and relationships than the outer world. We described this as the ultimate...

  We live in two worlds. One is the outside world including all aspects of our life at home, work, or school. It’s everything that is out there. The other is the inside world, our inner life consisting of the six-inch space between our ears. Our inner life...

Let’s start the new year by thinking about what we want 2021 to be. In other words, what’s our purpose? In most areas of my life, I lack purpose. Seldom do I do things with a clear sense of purpose. But not when I play basketball. Since the time I was a little boy...

As a former English teacher, I love metaphors. They can help us understand complexity in a clear and meaningful way. A dear friend, Owen Phelps, recently sent me a message that included a meaningful metaphor. Owen compared our brains to a radio and we are the radio...

Although it was a long time ago, I can still remember liking school…elementary school, high school, and college. I had good teachers and enjoyed learning about all sorts of things. I even enjoyed doing homework. Looking back on my total school experience, however, it...