Being Helpful

A long time ago, there was a pretty famous book entitled All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten. It was cute and seemed quaint, but it is so true. To be happy and reasonably successful as a grown-up, you can get quite a long way by just starting with be...

Becoming Your Own Hero

Seth Godin has a great post today about Going First. If there’s one gift I want to give my children, it’s the courage to try new things and explore.  While that’s something I try to live by example, getting outside our own comfort zone is often...

Judging Risk

I’ve been thinking about risk, and how we make the decision about the cost/benefit of our actions. Having gone to law school, I think and act like a lawyer in much of my life, and that can drive some people crazy.  You think you’re asking a simple...