Five Truths: Part 5, Luck Favors the Prepared

Are you prepared?

In 2004, Pixar and Disney Studios released a brilliant movie called “The Incredibles.”  It was an animated film about a family of superheroes and their struggles to live in normal society.  There is a minor character in the film named Edna Mode.  Ms. Mode is a half-Japanese, half-German fashion designer specializing in custom-made outfits for [...]

Truths #3 of 5: You Need Help

Sample resume format

by James Hale, 80 – 90 % of job openings are filled by people who knew someone within the company to put in a good word for them.  Chances are you have landed a job in the past based on who you knew. Technical skills alone will not get you job offers.  You need friends, [...]

Why We Have to Die

by James Hale, Death. It’s not much fun to think about. Not a whole lot of fun for many who experience it, either. Most people don’t have the luxury of passing away in their sleep. They die some other way. Regardless, the outcome is the same. It’s also entirely unavoidable. Everyone here on this planet [...]

Do You Want to Get Well?

by James Smith, There’s a story about a man who had been sick for 38 years.  He would be taken to this pool that had healing properties.  Whenever the waters would stir, the first one to get down into the water would be healed from their ailments.  Understandably, a large number of sick people would [...]

Warning Signs of Increased Stress Level

reprinted from “Sleep Great for Life,” rated 5 stars on Amazon.com by Rich Nilsen One of the common behavioral reactions to stress can be an exaggeration of an existing habit.  Maybe one of your responses is overeating, and you suddenly notice yourself eating way more than you usually do. These will be important factors to [...]

The Mustn’ts

Opportunities

Listen to Mustn’ts, child, listen to the Don’ts. Listen to the Shouldn’ts, the lmpossibles, the Won’ts. Listen to the Never Haves, then listen close to me. Anything can happen, child, Anything can be. -Shel Silverstein I remember my daughter climbing on my knee as I read her this poem. I talked to her about how [...]

Life Lessons from Legendary Coach John Wooden

John Wooden's book

UCLA basketball coach John Wooden led his  team to 10 national championships, including  a remarkable seven consecutive titles. This was an unprecedented streak in modern major sports that most likely will never be duplicated in any of our lifetimes. However, as many people know, NCAA basketball championships were the least of Wooden’s passions. Coach and author [...]

It Never Fails

Love

by James Smith, Looking at the world around us, most of us would have to concede that there is something wrong.  But there’s always been something wrong, hasn’t there?  You can’t explain the Hitler’s and Khan’s and Nero’s of the world without admitting that something is just out of sync with God’s intention for mankind.  [...]

Happy, Thankful and Awed

mission_value

I have a personal mission statement for my life.  Hokey… yes.  Academic… just a little.  Trite and frivolous… no way. You see, my mission statement pushes me to live my life and to view things in a particular way…in a way that I have consciously chosen to look at things.  A realist by nature and [...]

It’s a Sad Day when Parents have to screen Disney Shows

Your Disney Airing at 9:45 am on a Sunday Morning

I turned on Disney for my two-year-old daughter this past Sunday morning because she was asking to watch “miss mouse.” I found two channels on the Verizon Fios guide. Had never heard of either show, so I simply choose one, something called Phineas and Ferb. Meanwhile my daughter had migrated to another room in the house. [...]