Today, I logged on to WA to see what's going on. That's something that I've been doing regularly, but that's all I've been doing. I was notified that I earned my first "Dedication Badge" for having been a premium member for six months... but I've been out of it for at least half of that time.First, I became really ill, then a couple of weeks later, my shift changed at work. I used to get home around 11:30pm and I would come in here to write as I would wind down from work. Maybe I would enjoy an

I just woke up from a dream about finding money on the ground. I'm not much of a dream interpreter, but I immediately thought of an old friend of mine who was my roommate in the Army.One day, he and I were walking to the post theater and he found a single, one dollar bill on the ground as we were cutting through a parking lot.This sounds much like a trivial find, true enough. In fact, it turned out to be a trivial find for him but some 35 years later (today) it would resurface as a life lesson

So, just to make this a short story, I will start by saying that my employer has scheduled some of my coworkers and me to a leadership seminar at the end of the month. Along with news of this seminar, I received an email which informed me of some required reading.I am not here to promote the book, but as one might guess, it is related to leadership and self-improvement.Self-improvement… to me, this means that it is motivational in nature. To that end, it has been just that so far. I am o

What is the goal?Every day, I try to send a couple dozen new members a nice little goal statement. Sure. It’s the same statement almost every time because I paste it to those goal setters that are not stating extraordinary “goals.”I do actually read these goals and most of the time that I see a crazy goal, I mouse over “their” profile picture and read the blurb of their profile introduction statement. Late at night, you will often notice that many profiles whose na