How do people connect with you?  Do they hear you among all the chatter?  Do they care?

Far too often, we neglect the beginnings.

We feel the need to sprint in order to compete with everything and everyone.  Unfortunately, in our race to the finish line, we create a patchwork of unremarkable service offerings and watered down messages.  Our efforts are admirable but misguided.

What can we do?

The first step is ...

“There is no place in this new kind of physics for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality”  – Albert Einstein

I used to believe institutions, and society as a whole, would help me gain perspective and create meaning in my life.  They would define the limits of possibility, and provide the rules and principles I would need to be fulfilled, grow, ...

“The Market for Something to Believe In Is Infinite.”
- Hugh Macleod

If you attend a River Dogs baseball game in Charleston, SC (home of the New York Yankees Single “A” farm team), you’ll no doubt encounter a man named “Tony the Peanut Man”.

He’s an older gentleman with a smile as wide as ...

Remember those alcohol education/awareness programs back in high school and college?  I remember two things about them.  The first was an overwhelming feeling that the people involved in the programs were frightfully disconnected from me.  The second was an amusing “beer goggle” activity designed to simulate a certain blood alcohol level.  It was memorable, but it didn’t change my behavior.

College campuses across the country struggle mightily with alcohol ...

I was venting to a friend of mine the other day about my two young boys.  “I’m exhausted”, I told her. “Every day I come home from work and chase children for hours on end.  It’s an exercise in herding kittens!  Both boys wait at the door to compete for my time and affection.  When the kids finally get to bed, my wife and I collapse and wonder ...