I’m not sure what it was about the past week, but I was off. My healthy eating was a little less healthy, exercise more or less stopped and commitments just seemed to matter less. I was on autopilot. Somehow I completely missed a pretty important meeting because I managed to put it in my calendar…

Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve heard that someone is doing something in a way that just isn’t the norm? When you hear about how they’re doing it, it just can’t be right, they couldn’t possibly succeed. Conventions are conventions because they work, for most people, but in just about every case,…

Today I had the opportunity to try out the new “Hangouts” feature of Google+ with some local Twitter users. This new tool is just one more way that we’re able to communicate with people online versus in real life, or “IRL”. While tools like these are great for staying connected to people who distance would…

Have you ever heard the term “market correction” before? It’s what financial investors call a short term price decline. Basically, it means that things have been going so good for so long, something has to give and the price of the stock dips. Today was a reminder that corrections aren’t restricted to financial markets. Without…

If you had the ability to save someone’s life with about an hour of your time, would you do it? Yes, that’s a loaded question, but the reason I’m asking it is because far too many people’s actions say no. What am I talking about? Something that I’ve been doing since I was in high…