To Inspire: I (Matt) am just back from a week’s vacation in Yellowstone National Park with our youngest daughter, Mary Grace. It was an awesome father/daughter trip! We both were struck with the incredible beauty we witnessed. From the Grand Teton Mountains on the southern edge of the park; to the deep gorge through which […]
To Inspire: Last week I (Matt) shared a story from Dr. Henry Cloud’s book, Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality. I shared Cloud’s story of a man that became a surgeon simply because his father and grandfather were surgeons and wanted him to be one too. Not having any real passion for […]
To Inspire: I (Matt) recently read Dr. Henry Cloud’s book entitled, Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality. Great book. I’ll share one story from it in this issue of WealthNotes and another story from it next week. Cloud, a psychologist, shares that one client he counseled was a surgeon but had chosen […]
To Inspire: We’ve been discussing the power of forming good habits as a way to live lives of purpose, passion, and joy. There’s another kind of habit that also is essential to living this kind of life – the habit of living with humility. If greed is the root of all evil (as the Bible […]
To Inspire: We came across this post on Guideposts.org. Written by Roberta Messner, it offers 9 tips for living a satisfying life. We’ve reprinted the post below – enjoy! Source: vimeo.com Health. Happiness. Success. It’s what we all seek in life, what we’ve been told leads to a satisfying life. Too often, however, these […]
To Inspire: We continue our study of building better habits as shared in James Clear’s book, Atomic Habits. Let’s continue our discussion of the two-minute rule. Clear calls these small habits gateway habits because they lead to the important habit that moves us towards the best version of ourselves. Recall Clear’s example of Twyla Tharp […]
To Inspire: We continue our discussion on habits that move us closer to our own personal version of a great life. In today’s WealthNotes, we discuss the “2-minute rule,” as shared by James Clear in his book, Atomic Habits. The premise is that it is tempting to pursue a new habit by starting too big. […]
To Inspire: I (Matt) am reading a fascinating book, Building A Story Brand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, by Donald Miller. Source: www.buildingastorybrand.com The overall strategy he shares is powerful and can be applied broadly, including, even, our personal lives. To illustrate, let me share the principles he uses – principles that […]
To Inspire: Source: www.csw.osu.edu Mark and I attended a reception last night in celebration of the 100th anniversary of OSU’s College of Social Work, founded in 1919. Our father, Joe Palmer, was an alum of the College and a member of their Hall of Fame. The event was held in a large hangar at […]
To Inspire: As our nation celebrates Father’s Day this Sunday, we thought you might enjoy learning a bit of its history. Scholars claim that it can be traced back 4000 years to Babylon when a young boy’s Father’s Day message in clay wishing his father good health and long life was discovered recently. Our modern […]