Where there is no vision, there is no hope. You can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air—but not a single second without hope. With no hope, you might still be breathing but you won’t be truly alive. One of the saddest ways to live is …
My husband gave me a new TV for Christmas. I don’t watch much TV, but the one we’d had for years was embarrassingly outdated. It was small and fit in an old TV hutch – the kind that hasn’t been produced for at least 20 years. Time to embrace technology and opt for the new …
Forecasting the weather seems like a hit or miss proposition. That makes me wonder if forecasting the future is any more accurate. Both meteorologists and sociologists use data, computer models, historical precedent, and any number of technological tools to produce scientific projections. Yet both nature and humans can be capricious and quite subject to change. …
Now that the confetti cannons heralding the dawn of a new year are quiet and the celebrations are just a memory, we are all about the business of work and life. It’s interesting that approximately 150 million Americans set new year’s resolutions with anticipation of improving their circumstances, but a whopping 25% abandon their goals …
In the past month, I have worked with hundreds of people on vision casting. It has been interesting to note how many struggle with giving their imagination free rein – even for just a few hours. It was Einstein who said, “Creativity is intelligence having fun“. How can there be such a disconnect between vision …
Vision: Six Quotes to Inspire Clarity Significant accomplishment has its roots in significant vision. “Our hearts need a strategy (vision or dream) and a believable reason why that dream is important.” – John Garfield “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he …
Are you a visionary? I’ve always thought of myself as one. And I consider it an asset. Until I recently looked up the dictionary definition. The adjective of visionary is defined as “given to or characterized by fanciful, not presently workable, or unpractical ideas, views or schemes.” Not something you want to be described as, …
Quest \k’west\ n. 1. search, pursuit. 2. an enterprise in medieval romance usually involving an adventurous journey. I’m captivated by people who are on a quest. Years ago, when I was starting my first business, I met the Mel Fisher family, the treasure hunters who found the sunken treasure from the Spanish galleon “Atocha”. In …