The Riddle Is: How tall will a tree grow? The answer: As tall as it can. Why do some people make things happen in their lives while others let life happen to them?  That is the real riddle! I am driving to FitMania at 5:30 this morning. There are several inches of snow already on […]

“All of us are self-made, but only the successful are willing to admit it.”  -Earl Nightingale As I counsel with people and their eating habits one of the most surprising things I have learned is that most people are not getting enough protein. Especially people who are very active, gaining muscle and/or are trying to […]

There was a poster in my daughter’s high school English class that said, “We do what we do because of what we value most at the time”.  Sometimes we value ease at the expense of true happiness. Many of our choices make us feel good in the short term but actually damage our happiness in […]

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige I will soon be 60 years old.  Is that old?  I just can’t seem to grasp it.  Do I look it?  I don’t think so but nobody my age thinks they look their age.  Certainly no one wants to look any older than they have […]

A wise man said, “We should all be students of inevitability.”  Jim Rohn We are all on the road to somewhere and the destination is inevitable.  The trick is to know that the road we are on is taking us to the place we want to go! I have in my desk drawer a fewredwood tree cones.  Did you […]

Nothing is to be feared.   It is only to be understood. – Marie Curie My grandfather worked at a hydro-electric dam near Tremonton, Utah. People didn’t understand how it worked. They accused the power company of taking the electricity out of the water and damaging the food the farmers were growing.  It was hysteria born […]