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Guns and Love: Keeping The Debate Focused

***If the discussion of guns is a sensitive subject for you, please skip to the bolded portions of the text as I’ve tried to make that the heart of what I’m trying to offer.***

When the shooting at Sandy Hook, Connecticut happened in December it had an impact on me and caused me to think a lot about my stance and opinion on guns.  It also motivated me to write a bit about my feelings and frustrations.  Since then I’ve seen a lot of debates in the news, seen the firearms legislation proposed by the President, watched Piers Morgan with wonder, and purposely avoided engaging in Facebook discussions on the subject.

I know that there are extremely passionate arguments on both sides of this issue and I recognize there are many people who have been positively and negatively impacted by guns in ...

January 25, 2013 Current Event 2 comments
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Sandy Hook Shooting: A Call For Love

This past Friday, 14 Dec 2012, I found myself gripping a small TV.  I was anxiously hoping for information explaining why a man walked into an Elementary School in Sandy Hook, Connecticut and shot and killed 20 children and 7 adults.  The Sandy Hook shooting had me quickly thinking about my daughter.  My work schedule allowed me the rare chance to drive her to her Elementary School that morning.  I bundled her up in her coat and over sized backpack, let her happily climb into my truck, we made jokes with each other as I drove her to school, and then I kissed her and told her I love her as I watched her skip into her school...

December 16, 2012 Current Event No comments
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Inspiration For Your Elusive Creative Genius

Have you ever struggled to do something creative?  Have you created something amazing and ever wondered if you could do it again?  How much of what we create is purely a result of our own effort and abilities or is creativity somehow inspired from some elusive source?  Here’s some inspiration for your elusive creative genius.

inspiration for your elusive creative genuis

Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote Eat, Pray, Love and it became ridiculously popular.  She discusses the struggle great creative minds have maintaining their sanity and control over the creative process.  She reaches back in time to a mechanism used by the Greeks and Romans.  This mechanism helps maneuver the creative process without putting so much of the blame/credit/responsibility on the artist...

October 30, 2012 Inspiration One comment
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Good to Great #3: Confront the Brutal Facts

What it Means to Confront the Brutal Facts in Good to Great

In Good to Great, Jim Collins explains that successful organizations first start with an honest discussion of the environment in which they exist, what are the brutal facts surrounding your organization? The only way this conversation can occur on an organizational level is to create a culture, a climate, where people feel safe communicating; that they have a tremendous opportunity to be heard. Being heard is different from being able to say what you think, it means the other person listens. Confronting the brutal facts contributes to an effective decision-making process – it’s the only way to allow honest communication. If there is no open communication, problems or obstacles to an organization are rarely fully understood.

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September 5, 2012 Books, Good to Great 3 comments
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