Ok, so your boat may not look like this, but are you sinking? At this point in our lives, most of us are not professional fire fighters. Why then do we spend so much of our time fighting fires? Think about a boat with a hole in it. If you’re the one in the boat,…
I was watching Finding Nemo with my kiddos the other night, in my opinion one of the best animated films of all time, and it occurred to me that you can learn a whole lot about life from a fish. If you’ve never seen the film, I highly recommend it. If you have seen it,…
Maybe MacGyver can pull it off (very well I might add), but I can’t. I’m finally on the tail end of my mullet (no pun intended!). While getting my hair cut last week with the same guy I’ve been going to for 12 years , it occurred to me how scared so many of us…
Saturday night while attempting to clean the garage (I lead a very exciting life), I found some old boxes in the attic. These were boxes we stuffed up there when we moved in eight years ago, and until yesterday, I had completely forgotten they were there. Talk about a trip down memory lane! It was…
In his book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey introduces a concept called the emotional bank account. Similar to a regular bank account, we make deposits and withdrawals, only these are on an emotional level, and the stakes are much higher. In our relationships, we typically start off with a neutral balance, and…