Some What Ifs Are What Awfuls When life gets out of control, we get fearful. It’s a scary thing not to know where everything is headed. Because we need direction, we imagine the end of the story — … [Read more...]

Are We Afraid We Would Make a Difference? A lucky part of being who and where I am is that I get have conversations about people’s passions and dreams for the future. I hear their heads describing … [Read more...]

Hey, Brett, How Can We Change the World? One young man graduated college a year ago. He interviewed and found a job in a corporation. He worked one year in which he came to understand that his passion … [Read more...]

It Makes a Difference to Know Yesterday I was in a business meeting with some spectacular human beings who own a digital animation company. We had reached that point at which our conversation … [Read more...]

In a Dirty Shirt Richard was the boy in my first grade class who never had quite enough for lunch. He made his way to school alone along the back path on foot. He told stories no one believed, … [Read more...]

Forgive the Guy You Don’t Like One of the best things about growing up shy is that I became an observer. I watch people and the patterns in our behavior. Yeah, I watch myself too. Sometimes we do … [Read more...]

Seeing What’s Inside Every year at Christmas, my mother had her own tradition. She began buying gifts and wrapping them long before other folks even thought of such things. It was efficient. It … [Read more...]