Have you ever given someone a compliment and they said, “Awe, it was nothing” or “Anyone could have done it.”? Here’s something to think about. If you can’t receive a compliment, you can’t receive much else. As a result, you put a serious limit to how much success and fulfillment you can...

Imagine taking a 2 year old and 5 year old to gymnastics. Enough said. However, I firmly believe you can learn life lessons anywhere so, as my kids worked on their form, I gazed over to the far end of the gym. I noticed the bigger kids having foot races. Two of them at a time raced from one end of the...

I hold in my hand one penny. Where did it come from? After I bought two boxes of Italian Ice and one frozen pizza from the grocery store, my change came to a grand total of one penny. I thought, “Should I even bother taking it out of the self-checkout dispenser?” Then I remembered to practice...

Do you think reality hurts? Be honest, have you ever stepped on a scale and been forced to face reality? You should have seen my wife and me years ago as we took our 6-month old daughter Tori to the doctor’s office. The doctor walked in, took Tori’s length, and then said, “Since Tori can’t stand...