Passion

Lions, Tigers and Bears…Oh my! Dorothy and her crew from the Wizard of OZ chanted this mantra over and over as they were entering the forest. They were following the Yellow Brick Road in their quest to find courage, heart, mind, and a way home for Dorothy and her dog, Toto.

I was thinking about this movie and how closely it resembles our quest to find our Passion. As we start to pursue our Passion or at least what we think it is, we run smack into our fears: Lions, Tigers and Bears! When confronted by those fears, we […]

I love watching the old black & white movies on AMC, especially the swashbuckling pirate movies in search of treasure! There is always a map involved that everyone is fighting for and willing to die over—a Treasure Map that will lead to untold riches and exciting adventures.

In every pirate movie, there is only one map and one treasure, but in real life everyone has his own map that leads to treasure! We were all born with a built in map; it is imprinted in our DNA, and if we follow the clues, it will lead us to treasure […]

Growing up we would spend part of the summers in New Jersey. My family loved going to the beach, but all I wanted to do was find a pier to fish and catch crabs all day. Once you spend time with crabs you learn how shallow and negative they are. I could fill up a bushel and not have to worry about putting a lid on to keep them in!

It’s called the Crab Mentality and works like this: as soon as one brave crab decides to get free the others near him or her will reach out and […]