The Duty Is To Maximize Potential — “We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” — Carl Sagan (1934–1996) When the results in our Life aren’t in line…

Take A Pass on Fake People — “For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.” – Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) The actions of others that are inauthentic, deceptive, duplicitous, disrespectful, etc. …

Fly Because You Can — “Then [David] took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached Goliath.” — 1 Samuel 17:40 When we’re consistently reaching beyond our current station and striving toward our full…

Have No Tolerance For Disrespect — “Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find — nothing.” — Aesop (fl. c. 550 B.C.) When we accept less for our contributions than we know them to be worth, we allow ourselves to be disrespected. To…

Execution on It’s Own Isn’t Enough — “Rowing harder doesn’t help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.” Kenichi Ohmae (1943 — ) When we find ourselves struggling along and unhappy in Life, we find ourselves in one of three scenarios: All areas of our enterprise are functional — that is, all areas are progressing…

Put the Passion Pedal On the Floor — “How the hell can a person go to work in the morning, And come home in the evening and have nothing to say?” — John Prine (1946–2020) Are you connected enough to yourself to really be into your Life? Are you investing your days such that you’re deepening meaning in…

It’s Time to Respond, Power Through, & Overcome — “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.” – Frederick Douglass…

To Create Joy, Meet It Where It’s Made — “Who wants to understand the poem Must go to the land of poetry; Who wishes to understand the poet Must go to the poet’s land.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) For as long as humans have walked the earth, seekers have been responding to calls, Will has responded to…

Be Relentless in Pursuit of Progress — “All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.” – Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) In the normal course of everyday Life, we regularly come up short of our desires and expectations. When the actions that we’re taking toward any desired end are not proving sufficient to overcome the changes…