A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions. A new friend shared this classic Oliver Wendell Holmes quote with me t...

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As autumn sets in and this decade nears its end, I am amazed by the extent to which people and circumstances can evolve across 10 years. This is th...

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A few days ago my four-year-old, Olivia, and I had some free time to play outside. Someone at work had given me a giant "bubble wand," and Olivia had ...

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The setting was this month's Tennessee State Fair, right in the heart of Nashville. My wife Jenna and I normally hide any section of the newspaper bea...

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Across this year I have spent a significant amount of time helping leaders in the arena of strategic planning. There’s a very simple process that has ...

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After a quick first read through Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now--with at least two or three more rounds, highlighter in hand, planned across the nex...

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I just returned from an invigorating run/walk on a lovely Saturday morning, a happy mixture of music on my iPod and an intentional effort to simply be...

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During my tenth grade year I began to sense, for the first time, a fear of not realizing my creative potential, fulfilling my deeper identity as a wri...

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