Due to the drastic increase in followers since the site launched in late June, we're re-publishing a few choice posts this week for the newcomers who may have missed them. To be counterfeit, something must be an intentional imitation designed to deceive. When you think about the important relationships you have in your life, with your family, ... Continue Reading »
Sort Out the Trash!
Don’t Be Too Quick To Reveal the True You
When is a stick not a stick? When's it's a stick bug! Is this deception, or brilliant survival tactic? If you take a moment to think about it, a stick bug can be an effective life coach! People can be like a stick bug, appearing to be one thing when, in fact, they're another. Generally, as a society we hate it when someone is "fake," and, ... Continue Reading »
Sort Out Empowerment Trash From Truth
Has the rallying cry, "Rules are made to be broken!" gone too far? What happens when the yearning to be different and stand out from the crowd ends up degrading into a compulsive need to break any rules, even the decent ones? How petty can the need to feel empowered get? Jogging along a beautiful refreshing country road the other morning, reveling ... Continue Reading »
Sorting Pain From Gain in Hardcore Friendship
'Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. - Benjamin Franklin, one of the greatest SagaciDons of all time. Do you have a friend who cares enough about you to call you out on your bull? Are you enough of a friend to forgive them for doing it? When you demand silence from your friends and they comply ... Continue Reading »
Digging Up the Buried Treasure in Failure
A failure is a result, not a person. To call someone, or call yourself, a failure is a judgment, not a reality. What you did failed. What you tried to achieve didn't make it. You came in 2nd, or 3rd, or 134th, didn't get that job, got injured and can't compete anymore, fell short of honor roll or gave up and dropped out, the business went bust, ... Continue Reading »
Digging Up the Buried Treasure in Failure
A failure is a result, not a person. To call someone, or call yourself, a failure is a judgment, not a reality. What you did failed. What you tried to achieve didn't make it. You came in 2nd, or 3rd, or 134th, didn't get that job, got injured and can't compete anymore, fell short of honor roll or gave up and dropped out, the business went bust, the ... Continue Reading »