Gotta’ Question That One :-)

An extremely popular blogger and thought-leader whose name will be withheld recently tweeted the following: “What do you call a man who professes a fondness for ‘the finer things in life’? Well, he’s certainly no free man, that’s for sure…” I don’t know the tweeter personally. I tweeted him and respectfully asked: Hi {Name}. Just…

Less Usually IS More

A past post reminded me of a passage written by Thomas Cleary in his Translator’s Introduction of Sun Tzu’s, The Art of War. He wrote: According to an old story, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of them was the most skilled in the…

Shaping Ourselves Through Gratitude

I’m grateful for gratitude. I’m also cuckoo for Coco Puffs, but that’s another story (Gen Yers and younger; don’t worry — that something we used to call a commercial). 🙂 My friend, Sandy Harper even has a “Gratitude Bootcamp.” What a great idea. In my opinion, Gratitude is the foundational character trait of all other…