Responsibility No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up. (Abraham Lincoln) The story is told of a mother who was trying to get her reluctant son to get up to go to school. He rebelled; he didn’t want to go to school, he said. The mother...
Serving Your business resumé is less important than your community service calendar. (Dan O’Deens, 3rd world social worker) Business-minded young people begin to worry about their resumés very early in their careers—often before they even finish their formal training....
Generosity There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate. (Robert Frost, 19th-20th century American poet) What is your motivation for being generous? Some very well-known, wealthy people give a lot of money to their...
Shortcuts There are no shortcuts to anywhere worth going. (Keith Minier, pastor) With GPS and Google Maps, you would think that you’d never get lost again, wouldn’t you? And yet, those helps aren’t always correct, and sometimes we even try to take a shortcut. A lot of...
Happy New Year! Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. (Oprah Winfrey. TV personality) Days, months, and years keep rolling around like clockwork. Many days seem exactly alike, but January first encourages us to think more positively about the...
Anticipation New Year's Eve is like every other night… yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. (Hamilton Wright Mabie, 19th-20th century essayist) Mabie also said, “there is no pause in the march of...
Mistakes I hope that in the year to come you make mistakes… (Neil Gaiman, English author) That’s not a good New Year’s blessing, is it? Hear Gaiman out: “because if you are making mistakes you are making new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing...
Leadership Leadership is “enabling others to do what they don’t want to do in order to be able to be what they want to be.” (Bill Hull, author) “Leadership” has many definitions, and Hull’s is certainly a challenge. How do you get people “to do what they don’t want to...
Others Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. (Helen Keller, 20th century author and lecturer) When you realize the handicaps that Helen Keller endured from childhood, you have to marvel at her statement that “Life is an exciting...
Hope In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. (Robert Frost, 19th-20th century American poet) The after-Christmas spirit is difficult for a lot of people. The excitement of the holidays has gone with taking down the tree, removing...
The Day After One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly. (Andy Rooney, late TV commentator) Isn’t it part of the holiday fun to pick up the gift wrappings and trash after the fun...
Christmas God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms. (Paul Scherer, late seminary professor) Scherer’s comment doesn’t sound much like a seminary professor’s definition of Christmas, but it certainly states the most important event in history in...