A Different Way Into the New Year Every year I make goals. It's been a habit I learned years ago and have taught many people to do the same.   One of the challenges for me…

The Quiet Power of Christmas My mentor and friend will be in surgery later today.   Some of my other friends are waiting on diagnoses.   I see my kids every other week.   I'm having…

When Christmas Was Winter It was Christmas, and I was coming off what felt like the best year of my young, eight-year-old life.   My sister and I had been brought to the United States to…

A Grown-Up Example of Family Almost Laughed Away It was only the second time she was meeting her now husband's family.   At the first dinner, she sat almost speechless-watching as they asked about each other's…

How to Have Amazing Relationships The Absolute Power of Listening   He had an affair.   And came to me for coaching.   He wanted to repair his marriage.   And they hadn't been intimate for…

Why Gratitude is so Important: Thanksgiving Reflection Let me start with a question - one that stopped me in my tracks when I thought of it:   What if tomorrow morning you woke up and only…

Relationships, Marriage, and your Health  I was driving with a young man I'm coaching the other day-he's working hard to prepare himself for a healthy relationship.   He's responsible, he's been through a lot, and he…

When making a profit doesn't profit What Does It Profit a Man? "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?" Matthew 16:26   This lesson from the Bible has…

Why doing nothing is something A friend of mine, a very successful businessman, once shared a story with me.   It was a story his father had told him, and it became the way he ran…

"Daddy, no-I can't look, it's just too awlful!"     "Daddy, no-I can't look. I can't look, Daddy," my daughter sobbed.   "Maya, you have to look," I said.   She was only four or five…