I recently watched a movie with my children, Facing The Giants (2006). The move is about a head football couch who finds himself and his purpose, after he begins to question what it is he is doing. In the process of finding himself he motives the team to win the state championship by giving 100%. The…
Category: Personal Development
My thought on developing one’s self so that you can help another individual grow and prosper.
Is it worth the energy?
Have you ever found yourself in a conversation or discuss that you look back on now and ask, why did I waste my time and energy? That happened to me a couple of weeks back on Facebook with 10 or so people in a group. Some people in the group I knew and some of…
Staying Positive In A Negative World Is Your Choice.
Staying positive in a negative world is probable one of the hardest things we have to do if we are going to lead in the different roles we play as fathers, business leaders and community leaders. We all know people in these different roles who seem to stay positive no matter what life is throwing…
Five Things You Can Do To Change Your Views Of People.
Several years ago, hurricane Katrina roared into the Gulf of Mexico and displaced thousands of people. Phoenix ended up hosting and housing several hundred of those displaced by hurricane in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Many of the people who came had lost everything. A call went out to the community for help. The victims needed…
Why I Am A Father.
A couple of weeks ago my youngest daughter, who is eight came to me and asked me to put her to bed. It was about 9:30 pm and we had just gotten home from shopping for school clothes. I was on my way out the door again to go close up the family business. As I took…
Five Ways Fathers Can Be Better Listener, Now!
My youngest daughter came to me a couple of years ago and climbed up on my lap while I was watching a do it you self show on PBS. What she wanted was my attention while she told me what she needed. I pretended to listen to her while a I continued to watch the…