This is one of my favorite acronyms and I didn’t even know it was. My family knows it is very well.   Many people I work with know it is too. It stand for the way I react when I am asked a question about something: It stands for: Always….

Meetings. Conflicts. Discussions. Family time. Parenting. They all involve people and how we interact with them. How many times have you been in a meeting and someone talks over someone else with their idea to make sure that they are heard? How many times have you corrected an employee or…

I pulled this subject line from a book I just read called “The Four Agreements” by Miguel Ruiz. It has stuck with me more than almost anything else I read in the book. How well do you “do what you say”? How well do you “watch what you say”? Do…

  Weekly Ration “A fool’s displeasure is known at once, but whoever ignores an insult is sensible. “ Prov 12:16  HCSB Many times my body language shows how annoyed I am… I don’t even have to speak –  it is so obvious! Can I instead ignore the thing that is…

I worked in a place once that was almost like a morgue.  I mean, every time I came to work, no one was smiling.  No one was talking to each other; no one even looked like they wanted to be there. It was a sad place. Needless to say, I…

With my birthday happening last week, I came to the realization of just how fortunate I am. And it caused me to be very grateful. I take for granted so many times, throughout the day, what I have and what God has done in my life. The family I have;…

I got sick the other day. It wasn’t the kind of sickness that puts you in the bed for 3 days with a high fever, chills, a weak body and headaches. This was the type of sickness that can only come when you eat something that was spoiled or out…

  There is a story that has been told many times about the job attitudes of three bricklayers: When asked, “What are you doing?” the first bricklayer replied, “Laying brick.”  The second answered, “Making $10.50 an hour.”  And the third said, “Me? Why, I’m building the world’s greatest cathedral.” After…

I heard a pastor once say , “God’s Word will either keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from God’s Word.” Oh how true this is! “How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to Your word.” Psalm 119:9 (NIV) It can be discouraging…

For those that know me well, you know that I have a personality that tends to sweat the small stuff.   Like really really small stuff. Like stuff that ends up driving my family and sometimes my co-workers crazy. But recently, as I am reading the book The Magic of…