In addition to writing blogs, I also do life coaching and business coaching.  On one occasion, I was coaching a young mother and she started talking about her son.

In my coaching, I only concentrate on the person in front of me.  I’ve always come from the approach that...

Recently, I read an article written by Bruce Poon Tip, a Canadian entrepreneur, and bestselling author.  This article posed the question: can you teach people to have passion and purpose OR do you have to recruit passionate, purposeful people?

The conclusion of this art...

According to the American Psychological Association, chronic stress is linked to the six leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide. And, more than 75 percent of all physician office visits are for stres...

This may be difficult to believe, but there was a time in my life when I wasn’t in tune with Waldo Wisdom.  During this time, if things didn’t turn out the way I expected them to, I was either disappointed, upset and sometimes, even downright angry!   I would take on t...

Baby, it's cold outside! The Northeast is experiencing a “Bomb Cyclone,” the Midwest has temperatures below freezing and even in the South people are covering plants and breaking out winter clothing that is needed so seldom.

But as I sit here in my nice, climate conditi...

At the beginning of the New Year, many think about New Year’s resolutions. These resolutions, no doubt, will vary from one end of the spectrum to the other. Losing weight, making better grades in school, getting a better job, or having a closer relationship with those...

When the idea of a class ring first hit me, I knew I had to include the two most important parts of my life, my children, Ashley and Ben, Jr. I designed the ring so their initials ACBC would be prominently displayed on the ring. Accordingly, their initials are highligh...

Some 30 years ago, I designed a “class ring” for myself. Never having graduated from college and not having a college ring, I wanted to celebrate the education I’d received in my life. So, I designed a ring that represented this education and all the things that brough...

While watching a basketball game, I glanced up on the bookcase above the TV and saw this old hand water pump. It was a pump that my mother gave me years ago that came from my childhood home. When she gave it to me, I mounted it on a square piece of wood and placed it o...

I have been a Rotarian since 1987 and am very proud to be a member of such an outstanding group of fine, caring people who are members of Rotary Clubs located throughout the world. Civic organizations, like Rotary, help to make our communities, and indeed the world, a...