Help us with a name and win this beautiful eagle
Give us a great name and you could be the proud owner of this bronze eagle replica. Read on…. Do we serve best from a full cup or an empty cup? People often spiritualize having nothing – that somehow…
Wisdom meets Passion
Watch your evenings and know your future
Yesterday a listener of my podcast sent me a quotation he thought I’d enjoy. The quotation comes from Bertie Charles Forbes (May 14, 1880 – May 6, 1954), a Scottish financial journalist and author who founded Forbes Magazine. “Tell me…
Just a broken window but then…
There’s a concept in criminal thinking known as the broken window theory. Introduced in 1982 by social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in an article titled “Broken Windows” it included the following example: “Consider a building with…
My passion is gone for the work I thought I loved
I love this question from a listener – What do you do when the passion is gone? Hi Dan, I’m 33 years old, and I’ve been drawing cartoons and comics for as long as I can remember. It just recently…
When hope is gone
This is a time of year when many people are confronted with the fact that their dreams did not come true, their job still stinks, and life is no better than last year. What do you do when hope seems…
Talent is not important to God – just obedience
Okay, here’s a sticky theological question from a reader: Dan, I love to share my faith with others and I seem to have many natural talents, skills and abilities suited for being a minister. However, I believe that no matter…
Why Eagles fly and Turkeys get eaten
(I’ve never been able to identify an author for this story, and have taken the liberty to modify it over the years.) Once upon a time in the long, long ago the Eagle and the Turkey were very…
Good for nothing education?
In this week’s 48 Days Podcast, Joanne and I reviewed the many contributions listeners sent in regarding raising creative and entrepreneurial children. Many of the submissions expressed dismay with our current models of “education” and how the important skills seemed…
I only do business with people who love their work
I hope it’s clear that I’m doing work I love. Obviously, I would never settle for less. But you know what else I won’t settle for? Doing business with someone who doesn’t like their work. Do you think I want…
Are you being honest about what’s slowing you down?
Recently I was on board a beautiful new boat with a friend. While the boat looked absolutely stunning from everything I could see, the owner told me it was time to pull it out of the water and see what…