The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
-John Stuart Mill
I never planned on living a mediocre life. Nobody really does. Like all mediocre pursuits, it just kind of happened. Most of us leave high school and college with dreams and visions of future possibilities that set […]

“Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.”
I believe that many of us, myself included, spend more time wishing for change than planning change. Achieving our goals and moving toward our definition of success requires focus and action, and wishing is the antithesis of those things. In Think and […]

This weekend I helped move my wife’s grandmother into a nursing home. She has been living in an assisted living center for the last few years, but she fell and broke her hip recently. After the surgery, she was moved to the home for rehabilitation. The reality is, she may never leave.
I was surprised at […]