Category: purpose

What have you done?

November 2, 2006 | 3 comments

I couldn’t help but chuckle when I came across the following quote while reading “The Fred Factor,” by Mark Sanborn. “At the Day of Judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.” ~Thomas

Speaking with authority

October 9, 2006 | 2 comments

Yesterday, I was working in my home office while 5 children were playing in our yard on the back side of our house. I launched out of my chair to their play area when I heard a hostile dogfight erupt

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