What Matters is Blooming

As a society, we herald those people who bloom ahead of our expectations. We’re amazed by the 10-year-old in the pre-calculus class, the 32-year-old director of the Oscar-winning film, and the 24-year-old city council member with presidential aspirations. […]

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Is your Family Frantic?

I just finished reading Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family by Patrick Lencioni. I am a Lencioni fan, so I was grateful when I received the book as a wedding present. The long and short of the book is this: We often don’t run our families like we run our work. The vision, focus, and planning […]

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A Failure, Until He Wasn’t

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis were contemporaries in the 1920s. Fitzgerald lives on as the author of the “Great American Novel” The Great Gatsby, a book that continues to inspire modern literature and blockbuster films. Lewis lives on in relative obscurity. In their time, it was a far different story. Fitzgerald struggled both critically and […]

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