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  • Taming the The Rhinoceros – LEAD

    If you want fast results that will produce no enduring fruit, release the rhinoceros in you in some crowded place. If you want to be a leader who inspires people to greatness, however, LEAD. Continue reading

  • Timidity

    We stagger through life encumbered by the pressures of everyday problems and phantom concerns. We are sensitive to slightest slight and the subtlest gesture. We are quick to take offense and slow to receive healing when offended, much less to… Continue reading

  • Five Reasons You Should Visit a Toastmasters Club This Week

    Toastmasters International is an octogenarian organization (the club, not the members) that teaches leadership and communication skills in an atmosphere of fun, acceptance, dignity, and collegial support. You should visit and then, you should join. You begin where you are… Continue reading

  • Be Hungry

    I was a little taken back as I sat in the training session for aspiring vacuum cleaner salesmen and heard the trainer say, "I hope you are all in serious debt or financial trouble. If you are, you will be… Continue reading

  • Lessons from a Penny

    I was trying to find something to write about a few years ago and was completely stumped. Hoping to distract myself into a state of concentration, I picked up a penny and turned it over and over. I asked myself… Continue reading

  • God’s First Creation

      If I were to ask you what God made first, you might say, "light" based upon the first chapter of Genesis. However, it does not say that. It says that He made everything in the beginning and that He… Continue reading

  • The Eyes of Time (Spelled I-Z-E)

    Time has eyes. In this case, it is I-Z-E: Sanitize Prioritize Optimize Strategize Energize I could throw in a few more just to be cute and thorough, but these may do. We can revisit categorize, synthesize, and scrutinize later. _____________________________… Continue reading

  • The Grand Courtship

    (Jeremiah 31:3 KJV) The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Everlasting love. It is as much of a quality as it is… Continue reading

  • Billy Graham – Reluctant Hero

    If there was one thing that Billy Graham has always resisted, it is hero status. He would be the first to remind us that he was a sinner saved by grace and a simple servant of Jesus. However, it is… Continue reading

  • Faith and Futility

    I thrive on "busy." I move amongst projects and big ideas and run on full steam until something intervenes. I love solitude and I love crowds. Go figure. Starbucks is my office. I like some people around me while I… Continue reading