Tag: passion
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Never Lose Your Sense of Wonder
We are a very jaded society. There is not denying it. Even when something as awesome as going to the moon is neglected by society by the third mission there is one word to use, jaded. This is not good. It is rather it is very sad. Apollo 13 was going
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Not the Best? Neither am I… but We Do Nonetheless
When I turned 30 I took up running. Do not get me wrong, I am not a runner, I simply run. My mile times, compared to others, are really slow, and down right pathetic compared to the world’s elite. Yet, though I may be slow I still run. So when I decided to run a…
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Expect Progress Not Miracles
“It’s so easy.” This was a phrase an outside consultant repeated over and over to us during training at work. He was teaching us how to use a new program and with every new topic or question he would start with that phrase, “It’s so easy.” Yet no matter how many times he would repeat…
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Michael Scott was Right, It’s About People
I loved the tv show The Office (US version). It was a well written show that portrayed the office life in all its fullness, quirks and all. Even with all the over embellished antics the coworkers did everything was still very plausible in an actual workplace. The key to the dynamic was Michael Scott –…
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Becoming a Good Steward
Stewardship, unfortunately, is not a word we use regularly anymore. When is the last time you heard someone talk about being a good steward? It is a shame we do not use it more often though, because it carries with it a character trait we should all have. And like most basics of life, just…
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Like a Circus Bear in its Cage
A few years ago my pastor used an example to show how people can get trapped in their minds. The illustration was that of a circus bear that had been in a cage most of its life. When the bear got too old for the circus it was taken to the woods to be set…
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Endless Music on 88 Piano Keys
A few years ago I used to listen to Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! on NPR. It is an entertaining show that quizzes people on the latest headline news. Because my travel patterns have changed I have not listened to it in a while. A few weeks ago I decided to listen to a few…
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When Trying to do Better Puts Holes in Walls
I have lived in my house for almost six years. When I first moved in I did some thinking about how I wanted it to look and I bought a few things to go on the walls. However, my house has never been complete. The walls in my bedroom have been bare and I only…
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Destined to Fail? Or Motivated to Succeed?
There have been many studies correlating one’s environment growing up to one’s success later in life. From parental support to economic status, there are factors that do affect us as we are growing up – the less supportive and less economically one is the less likely one is to succeed. It is harder to show…
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They Don’t Know Where You’ve Been, God Bless ‘Em
When I was in Nepal trekking up and down the mountains was a tough chore. We would go up 3,000 feet just to go back down the 3,000 feet, and then go back up 2,800 feet. This was life for ten days – tough trekking up and down the Himalayas to reach our destination. As…