A friend recently told me, “I feel like quitting. I’m tired of being told things will work out in the future, that relief is out there somewhere. Just give me the keys. Drive away. Leave everything behind.”
And then I told him the amazing turnaround story of Edwin Booth, the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
If anyone could ever justify quitting, it was Edwin Booth.
Continue Reading “How the Best Keep Going and Never Give Up” A seven-year-old boy laughed one summer night when his father held him high to the stars.
“Look, son!”
Just then, a white flame skirted across the astonished heavens.
And then another star skipped across and dipped into the lake.
“What’s happening, Dad?”
“Shooting stars. They show up every summer, usually late July and August. It’s really something.”
Decades have passed, but I’ll never forget that night when Dad held me to the stars.
No doubt, I have many memories with Claude Blaising.
But that night was special. It reminds me of three things kids need most in a dad.
Continue Reading “Three ways a father can supercharge kids with starry hope” Whatever hole or pit you’re in is not permanent.
Unless you want to stay there.
And many folks do.
The deeper the hole, the greater the resistance.
But anyone can climb out if they open three hatches.
Continue Reading “How To Blow Out of Your Hole”