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My father has been gone a long time. He passed in 1988. For years Father’s Day was a tough day and I missed him terribly. Advertisers kept reminding me what I no longer had.  But now, I no longer feel sadness when […]

Recently, I read the book, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg.  I have been reflecting on it quite a bit.  In it, Duhigg makes the argument that a lot of what we do is […]

“How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you.” — Dan Reiland

I am interested in what makes organizations and people […]

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity – Seneca (Roman Philosopher)
I’m looking forward to what 2012 has to offer.  There are interesting people I have yet to meet, friends and family to spend […]

Today I was maudlin.   I thought about all the people who are no longer in my life.  My Dad.  My Mom.  My grandparents and uncle.  Then, as I waited behind a bus dropping off kids after school, I lamented that I […]

The other day as I was driving to work, I felt a bit disconnected.  The best I could describe it was that I was feeling a sense of angst.  That night, after my work out at the gym, and full of endorphins, I […]

I peruse the gym fitness schedule like a menu in a restaurant.  Mostly I know it by heart, but every 3 months or so it changes, forcing me to tweak my routine until it fits once more into the constant pattern of life.  Currently, I am recovering from  surgery so I am forced to skip ab [...]

I’m an on the go person.  I don’t know how my life evolved to be so jam packed, but it is not unusual for me to have appointments scheduled from early in the morning until the evening, almost every day of the week.  A busy schedule is more likely to invigorate than stress me. Where others [...]

“Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it’s letting go.” – unknown I have been feeling a bit off this past week.  It took me a few days to figure out what this emotion was and then I pinpointed it – sadness.  The cause of it is now obvious. Julie going [...]

When I was a teenager I was a real negative Nellie.  When my mom couldn’t take any more of my griping, she would say, wearily, “If you don’t have something pleasant to say, please don’t say it at all.” This did nothing to deter me and made me quite the downer to be around. I [...]

Instructor engagement will often drive the level of connection and learning that a student will embrace during an on-line course experience.   As part of the management team of three growing on-line programs and as an on-line instructor, these are some of the tips I give new instructors to increase student commitment and learning outcomes: 1) Grade [...]

I have been the most successful when I have been the least focused on what I wanted the end result to be.  In other words, goals trip me up. When I am more into improving the moment right in front of me, I seem to be able to stitch those moments together to reach a [...]

I can’t tell you much about what to expect from this blog.  I don’t even know yet myself what it will become. But I can give you some insight about me, so you get a flavor of the person behind the text. I am not sophisticated. Not even close. Recently, at the gym, I noticed [...]