Your way is not quite the best

It’s always safe to assume that there may be a better way; but you have to make the assumption to find it.

Finances and Relationships

All the money (and “stuff”) you want and need is now possessed by someone else.  Your success is dependent upon your ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with other people.

How are you doing?

The man behind the curtain

Individuals create institutions, and governing bodies and all sorts of groups, then we allow them to have more power than individuals.  But in the end, there are just people running them and using their appointed authority to control or do what they feel is best for individuals.

It can be good or bad.  We must be vigilant.

Say Something

“All that is necessary for evil to prevail, is for good men to do nothing” -Edmund Burke

At work, in your community, in your state and in your country – if something is not right, say something.

Shouldn’t you?

Dream Crusher?

What would be better; a world where everyone’s dreams came true, or where nobody’s did?  

Don’t crush others’ dreams – encourage them.  You’ll be happy with what you get back.

The Storyteller

Your stories overlap, intersect, underlie and overarch.  It’s your choice to decide which ones to expand, and which to dissolve; which to assign meaning, and which to share and identify with.

It’s your story, and you’re the storyteller.  The one it means the most to is you, and you can change it anytime you want. 

Producing exceptional students

Call me crazy, but the idea of teaching all children the same thing is useful until about the sixth grade.  Then we should recognize strengths and weakness in our children and start teaching them to run with their strengths and be great at something.  Instead we fight their weaknesses, and suppress their self esteem by making them struggle in this subject or that.

Standard curriculum would work – if people were or wanted to be “standard”.

Being Average

Follow the crowd, if you want to be like them.

Freedom lies in being bold

When the comfortable majority doesn’t stand up to the activist radical minority who would bring ruin if left uncontested, bad things happen.

When the majority is doing something wrong, and the minority doesn’t speak out and stand up against it, bad things happen.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Better left unsaid…

Saying the right thing at the right time to encourage others is important.

More important is to not say the wrong thing when the temptation arises.

Don’t crush people.  Even when they make it easy.