Category: getting better

  • Time and Tide; Father’s Day 2017

    It had been one year since we converted our summer getaway into our permanent home. April 2017 brought the return of the Osprey, the Herons, and the Laurel blooms; springtime in Deltaville a prelude to an idyllic summer on the Bay. However, the ravages of winter and the wages of my procrastination had taken a…

  • Lasso on Leadership

    I don’t typically write movie reviews. However, I do from time to time write about leadership and motivation, and in a world that starts with “I” you would have to look far and wide for a better contemporary portrayal of a leader, than Ted Lasso. Sweet but not cloying, wholesome yet not prudish, Ted Lasso…

  • Today’s Thanksgiving

    The rain has stopped for now. The skies across the Tidewater have cleared. Yesterday, in the drizzle the leaves were dull and drab. Today the sun, frantically highlighting each color in every tree, in a battle against time. Here bright orange and yellow, there a snap of red and the Sweet Gum with a brushstroke…

  • Beating the Odds

    We are more than a week into the New Year 2014. Traditionally this is a time to make resolutions. This is a time to lay out all of the things we feel a need to change in our lives and to make a plan to achieve all that we want…Statistically, 88% of us will fail…

  • Through the Glass Darkly, or Monkeys In a Cage

    So about that losing weight part in the subtitle of my blog. I started to focus on personal fitness at the first part of this year. Weight loss is mostly motivational. Its about finding the right mindset. I coach people to find motivation in selling and managing all the time. I just needed to coach…