Thoughts About The Statue Of Buddha

I have a huge statue of Buddha (about five-feet tall and 800 pounds) in my front garden. It’s unique, inspiring, and pleasing, and even a glance reassures me that everything’s going to be okay in a larger sense. The feeling reminds me of when my son Blake was a little boy sharing his fears.

4 Jul, 2013
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Q and A with Steve

You said recently, “It’s always been easy for me to say no in business if I felt a situation called for it, but at home I was often lost. When I wanted to say no because I felt that, for example, a particular expenditure was wrong or because my children wanted to do something that

2 Jul, 2013
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Summer – Time for a Vacation

According to Webster’s New World Dictionary, a vacation is “freedom from any activity; rest; respite; intermission” or “a period of rest and freedom from work, study, etc.; time of recreation, usually a specific interval in a year: as, two weeks’ vacation.” When I was a kid in the 1950s, the family vacation was Marietta

27 Jun, 2013
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HOW CAN BEING MINDFUL HELP US ACHIEVE MORE IN BUSINESS?

1) General principles that help us: Our minds are busy pieces of machinery, constantly reviewing the past’s old stories or making up new stories predicting future scenarios and doing all of this through the lens of “coulda, woulda, shoulda.” The voice in our head is similar to a computer processing information, and when it’s

24 Jun, 2013
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Memories

I’ve come to look at my memories differently lately and no longer trust them to be either accurate or carved in stone as I now know they change. My first“Aha” moment about memories came years ago when I discovered that if I leave a contract in a drawer unread for twelve months,God will

20 Jun, 2013
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