As a teenager, my major life-altering traumas were generally self-inflicted, like flunking a test for which I hadn’t bothered to study, getting dumped by a girlfriend whom I’d totally ignored to hang out with my friends, or the tragedy of all tragedies: damaging my car because I liked to drive...
We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their actions…Stephen Covey In June, my wife Melinda and I will celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. One would think after a quarter of a century of marriage, I’d have this whole husband thing figured out. I don’t. Like all couples, we’ve...
Wisdom is seeing and responding to life situations from a perspective that transcends my current circumstances. Whether at work, with our families, or in our community, there are times when we are called upon to be leaders and other times when we are followers. Both roles require wisdom and we are...
If you take a glance at any weekend news show on TV or spend more than 5 minutes on the internet, you can quickly see that forgiveness appears to be in short supply nowadays. It seems like we’ve shifted from a society that embraces (or at least tolerates) vigorous debate of opposing ideas to a...
I’m pretty sure the other members of the Character Council just wanted me to present the trait of honesty because they thought it would be funny, since I’m a polygraph examiner and it’s kind of my job to figure out if people are being honest or not. As a tidbit of useless trivia on that subject,...
