We’ve all heard the advice that practice makes perfect.  But how many of us actually do that? Practice I mean. I’d be willing to bet that very few of us work hard at what we love. In a previous post I mentioned that we are all too often held in the grasp of a no growth mentality.  That it’s not change we fear, but failure. Practice is part of that. Many of us don’t practice because we figure “why bother?”  That type of mentality says, it’s ...

For many of us we consider our jobs simply a way to pay the bills and to keep a roof over our head.  But what if we saw them as something different?  What if we embraced the potential that a job could have?  What if we took a risk, and didn't live in fear? Over the years the meaning of work has changed.  In a highly agrarian society you simply had to farm.  You farmed or you starved.  You just didn't have much choice.  The Industrial Age moved people from the country to the cities, but most people became human cogs ...

Every so often I love to randomly surf YouTube.  It's such an interesting collection of people, ideas, talents.  A lot of it is worthless, but every so often you find something truly amazing. Yet for every amazing talent you find, you see dozens, if not hundreds (or thousands) trying to tear that person down.  In the example above we see an 8 year old playing guitar.  Being a tad older than 8 myself I am in awe.  My musical talent ...