With all the events taking place right now in the world around us it’s not easy to remove ourselves and shut it down and still stay focused. This is true for everyone. In addition, there is so much happening locally for every single one of us! Fuel prices skyrocketing, food prices climbing, and inflation fears stoking the flames of despair while trying to maintain a budget. Not to mention the constantly changing rules surrounding the Covid crisis. How is it possible to keep … [Read more...]
Which Route Do You Choose?
The easier route or the more challenging route? Which is your default decision? When you select the easier route, odds are you will not be challenged or tested to do anything you haven’t done before. You may even be able to predict with fairly reasonable accuracy how long it will take to finish this easy route. By selecting the more challenging route you know you’ll be tested. Either physically tested or mentally tested or both. You have no idea how much time will be needed to … [Read more...]
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Everyone in the world is looking ahead to a great year in 2022! Let’s all do our best to make it a reality! “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” ~ Zig Ziglar "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." ~ C.S. Lewis “New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas
Make the most of what you have and the ability to connect with your loved ones all over the world. This year we may be apart – next year we’ll all be together. “Christmas, my child, is love in action… Every time we love, Every time we give, It’s Christmas.” — Dale Evans Rogers “Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow people should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of … [Read more...]
Where Are You Right Now?
The majority of us depend on an app, on our handheld device, for directions these days. You may have a personal favorite app for directions and driving, walking and even for hiking. Feel free to share the name of your favorite and why it’s your favorite in the comments section. Odds are good that if you’re under thirty years old you never saw, no less utilized, a paper map. The kind of fold out map that no one can quite get folded back up correctly once opened up. You may have seen these in … [Read more...]
Happy Independence Day!
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." ~ President John F. Kennedy "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." ~ President Bill Clinton "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand" ~ President Harry S. Truman "The essence of America, that which really unites us, is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion. It … [Read more...]
