Life is a mountain. You have heard this before and know there are ups and downs, and also a sense to reach our peak potential, what we want our lives to become. So why bother making the climb?The Appalachian Mountains were my backyard as a child. And every season, rain, Read more…
“HOW IS THE REAL WORLD?” I am frequently asked this now, being out of school and seemingly off to the race toward retirement.And my response used to typically be, “Well, I’m far from the playground I used to play on. I’m far from the mountains I used to ski, Read more…
Every morning I set my “opportunity clock”, as Zig Ziglar refers to it as, to go and workout. And believe me, I’m not the most wide awake and well put together person at 4am. But it’s often that I sometimes feel motivation is portrayed by the “big speech at work” Read more…
Today’s webinar on effective management reviews at GMHT, basically presented the importance of, “Say what you do, do what you say”. (A common paraphrase from the ISO 9000 and ISO 9001 standard for the automotive industry)
I often get crazy looks when I show my enthusiasm to run 26.2 miles or when I decide to go back to graduate school in a field where I’ve never taken an actual course in. But what I’ve realized through my book The Impression of a Good Life: Philosophical Engineering, Read more…
In The Impression of a Good Life: Philosophical Engineering, the question of which mountain are you climbing in life is answered through understanding what to value in life. That is the first meaning of value as in being the standards for which you are to live your life and the Read more…