I don’t know why there is so much shame about losers in our culture. We are trained to want to win from the earliest age and all the thousands of hours of sports coverage that we watch throughout our lives centers on the winning. Even when the win is gotten by millimeters or milliseconds, the loser is out of our focus in an instant. This is a tragic misinterpretation because the truth of the...

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” -Zig Ziglar

I have achieved my goal of the positivity quest, which was to change my mind. It has been a long and well-documented climb of turning my sights and sensitivity towards a positive world view. Yet, here I stand, 365 days later with not only an extraordinary view of my life’s potential...

“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”  -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have worked hard not to live through my children’s experience. Finding and maintaining the line between us has been a continuous and hard won effort. I try to maintain a compassionate connection to their setbacks and witness the celebration of their...

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” -Theodore Isaac Rubin

I should actually feel happier than I do tonight. The intensity of preparation and the work is over, at least for the weekend. All kinds of accolades from acquaintances and friends far and near came through today....