A stimulus to read

I enjoy reading, but over the last two years I’ve had to build a habit to do it every morning. Movies, on the other hand, easily engross me. I just sit back and surrender myself to a visual and ...

Has excellence got you down?

Has excellence got you down?
I’ve been reading a few excellent books lately. How do I know they’re so good? Because as I read them, I found myself thinking, “What? That’s my idea!” In fact, as an aspiring author, I was planning to write ...

Dreaming isn’t hard

Dreaming isn’t hard. Pursuing one is. A dream, at least a noble one, invariably involves something new. Realizing it requires redirection. These kinds of dreams, the ones that lift our spirits, seldom fall on our path. Instead, they provoke ...

Embrace the Race

The race is on. As of this writing, the seventh Vendee Globe is in it’s 62nd day. The Vendee Globe is the extreme Olympics of sailing. Twenty captains set out from France in specially designed 60-foot yachts to circumnavigate ...

Solidarity of the Unnoticed

Recently, I met with a couple of friends to catch up on life. Our conversation became more open when one of them disclosed how much he was struggling with envy at his peers’ accomplishments. In his mind, they’d gone ...