Nagging Optimism

It’s Hard to Not Be Negative Doesn’t seem to be a lot to be optimistic right now in our world. I think this is one of the negative sides of being an information/internet generation. They say that “good news travels fast”, but in a high-speed generation: bad news travels really, really fast. Between politics, the […]

Commodity, Equality and Rest.

If we look up the commodity market, we will get the prices of oil and gas, gold and silver, corn and soybeans, hogs and cattle, and cocoa and coffee. Items we use, in our world, are on the commodities market. But what we don’t see is what society has made the greatest commodity – people. […]

Flaming Torches: Counter-Intuitive Thinking in the Dark

Fears! We all have them. Some fears are a little bit more obscure like fear of clowns or butterflies or cakes (yes cakes…don’t believe me read the article.) It’s very interesting that with all the variance within the human race, there are still very common threads in regards to what we are most fearful of. […]

I’ll Stand By You

Recently, I sat in a room of firemen, policemen, paramedics, etc. I listened to the conversation about a scenario that maybe did not go so well. Then I heard a very profound thing… it was this, “maybe everything did not go as planned, but still if my spouse had an emergency I would hope that […]

A Simple Guide to Forgiveness

I love the title of this blog. I hope it will get lots of “hits” because of it! It’s kind of like posting an article with the headline: “Easy ways to Make Lot’s of Money and Be Your Own Boss.” People generally want easy paths to end results. The road to forgiveness is, for the most […]

Trending in the Right Direction

At the beginning of 2015 the Toronto Maple Leafs fired head coach Randy Carlyle. In an interview, then General Manager Dave Nonis sited that one of the reasons it happened was because the team was “trending in the wrong direction”. He was implying that they were not moving as a group towards their desired outcome. […]

The Power of 77,000 Hours

On Sunday, I mentioned a staggering statistic: Parents will spend 77,000 hours with their children by the time they reach the age of 18. Another statistic that adds deeper meaning to it, is the fact that children who are raised in homes that go to church with spend just under 900 hours at church-related activities. It […]