Category: purpose

Are you too busy doing things?

September 18, 2006 | No comments yet

Do you ever keep busy for the sake of keeping busy? In this “task-a-minute-world” with endless to-do lists and countless demands on our time, a mindset of always keeping busy can start to develop. If we aren’t doing something, we

The most important things

February 14, 2006 | No comments yet

I talked to an audience of adults about valuing the most important things in life. I asked the question, “When you turn 95 and look back over previous decades, what accomplishments will be most important to you? The money you

No sleepy retirement

January 22, 2006 | 1 comment

A woman told me that she had grown sleepy during the day ever since she retired from a long career in her field. I told her she could physically retire from her old profession, but she shouldn’t mentally retire from