Not everyone succeeds. But everyone hurts. I’ve done public speaking for years. Communicated, written, told…
Category: Life Lessons
Don’t quit that loser job: 40 Life Lessons I learned before I turned 40: #11
Don’t quit your job, even if it’s a bad one. My great Uncle Donny grew…
40 Life Lessons I learned before I turned 40: #10 Travel with a small number
Don’t travel alone. But don’t travel with a crowd either. Growing up in a fundamental…
Excess baggage is expensive: Life Lesson #9
Deal with excess baggage quickly. It’s super expensive. In the days following my college graduation,…
40 Life lessons I learned before I turned 40: #8 Turn a detour into a trip to back to school
Never. Stop. Learning. I was ambivalent about school. I didn’t hate it, I didn’t love…
Santa Claus, the Naughty List, and teaching my kids the meaning of Grace.
We interrupt our regular scheduled 40 life lessons I learned before Age 40 to bring…
40 Life Lessons to Learn before you turn 40: #7 Jesus started at 30.
Give it time. American culture particularly though does not understand time. We are a young…
40 Life Lessons to learn before you turn 40. #6 People have patterns.
People have patterns just like Sine and Cosine. You know, those wave patterns we had…
40 Life Lessons to learn before Age 40: #3 Don’t follow your dreams. First do this.
Don’t follow your dreams. There I said it. And it still sounds wrong. After teaching…
It doesn’t matter what “they” do. Lesson 1 of 40
 It doesn’t matter what “they” do. Do what’s right because it’s right. At the…