Brief Moments

    The overload of this week's schedule put me behind in the A-to-Z Challenge .  Having started for a new full time employer immediately after presenting at the Western Academy of Management , commitments serving other organizations through mid-May still exist and I value integrity too high to just abandon them.     Within the contract at the new organization was a goal to reach $4.1 million in sales by August 31st.  It's clear now after three weeks that we'll pass that number in 30 days. My first impression is of gratitude to God for the opportunity, but also an understanding that seeing anything as an opportunity or an obstacle is a choice, just like attitude and happiness.  After all generating that volume of new clients creates paperwork and follow through for teams of individuals in other locations and ongoing follow up by me to ensure what's been promised is delivered.  That is the nature of all businesses whether service or...

     By nature most of the time I am an optimist.  Which is probably why it doesn't bother to spend time watching the news as it does some I know.  "It's so depressing, can we watch something else?".  Having been in a variety of despairs over my near 50 years, as well as some extraordinary opportunities and heights, I know that whatever confronts me today is minimal in comparison to the plight of many on earth, our country, state and even in my community or neighborhood.      I have a poster in the office.  One of those "successories" kind of things.  It looks like a long par five with sand traps running the entire length of the fairway, water on the left and a dog-leg right.  It's got an Arthur C. Clarke underneath:  "The only way to know the limits of the possible is to go beyond them to the impossible."  I do believe he was right.   From deep within me is a predilection to push the boundaries,...