The meeting with the Board of Directors at the YMCA went well -- they wanted me!I asked to see the entire building. Not only was this building located in a bad neighborhood, it was run down. But, if God opens up the door and gives you a gift, (I did ask for a place to...
Twenty people in the past hour have listened to your sales pitch and hung up the phone. Five banks in a row have rejected your application for a small business loan. Your screenplay has just been returned with another letter that starts, "Thank you for thinking of us...
If there was ever an improbable prospect for major league baseball stardom, that longshot was Maury Wills. When he first tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950, he stood five feet eight inches tall and weighed 150 pounds-too small to play most positions. He was a...
I recently read of a study of ninety top leaders in a variety of fields. Interviewers were trying to determine just what it is that sets leaders apart. They discovered that those who rise to the top of their professions have the never-ending capacity to develop and...
THE GROS MORNE CHALLENGE, Part 2 We didn’t know it was an 18.3-kilometer trail; nor had we heard that it was a climb recommended for expert hikers. The only thing we had been told was to allow a minimum of six and a half hours to complete the trek, and since we only...
Lineolated Parakeets. You might not have heard of them before. That's because these birds aren't common today. These birds, which are called Linnies for short, are a little larger than a Budgie, and they have little black lines running all around their bodies. They...
Somebody once asked Winston Churchill what most prepared him to risk political suicide by speaking out against Hitler during the years of appeasement in the mid-1930s, then to lead Great Britain against Nazi Germany. Churchill said it was the time he had to repeat a...