To Inspire:  Adventure.  What a great word – it conjures up exciting travels, challenging goals, exciting plans.  We’ve all heard that life itself is an adventure!  So true. But it’s important to ask yourself periodically if you’re living life as an adventure.  Are you building adventure into your travels, your goals, your plans?  If not, […]

To Inspire:  Perhaps you’ve heard the story of the business owner whose business had grown tremendously over the years.  But markets were changing, the competition was more fierce and he was worried about the future.  He knew that his employees needed some words of encouragement from him, so he arranged for a company meeting for […]

To Inspire:  Dr. Ben Hardy, author and Ph.D. candidate in Organizational Psychology, recently blogged the key findings of a 75-year Harvard University Study on the key contributors to human happiness.  Here is his summary of that study’s findings:   Build and maintain transformational relationships The clearest finding of the study was that good relationships keep […]

To Inspire:  Perhaps you read the recent Columbus Dispatch article on Youth Across Borders and its founder, Courtney Bosca.  A Columbus resident, Courtney’s experience with Montana de Luz, a home in Honduras for children and young adults living with HIV, led her to imagine helping to foster connections between those children and youth and HIV […]

To Inspire: Have you ever kept a daily journal?  Life Coach Michael Hyatt has been sharing the advantages of daily journaling.  They are very compelling, so we thought we’d share them with our readers. According to Michael, a daily journaling habit is one that has an extremely positive effect on every other area of life. […]

To Inspire: Our team is grieving the death of Jan Winkleman, a long time client and dear friend of Mark’s, who died at age 60, recently after suffering a stroke.  Cherishing her memory are her husband, Larry, her adult children (Ryan, Tyler, and Allie) and their spouses and her many many friends. Jan was special […]

To Inspire: Christians throughout the world are nearing the end of Lent, a 40 day period in which they strive in modest ways to enter into Christ’s suffering: giving up certain pleasures (like coffee or desserts) and/or taking on additional acts of charity and prayer. In a recent issue of Success Magazine, writer Jonny Auping […]

February is here.  Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow (more winter on its way), and we celebrate the birthdays of George and Abe (our 1st and 16th Presidents).  But our favorite holiday of the month is February 14th, Valentine’s Day; a day to celebrate “romantic love” with a gift of roses, a touching note or a […]

To Inspire: As we celebrate Valentine’s Day this week, we might pause to consider this amazing gift we call love.  The ancient Greeks defined four types of love: Eros – romantic love; Storge – the love of family members for one another; Phileo – the affectionate, warm and platonic love of friends; Agape – an unconditional […]

To Inspire:  In our last Wealth Notes, we shared a three-step formula for your best year ever.  At its core, the formula calls for all of us to make small incremental changes each day that move us towards a desired goal, maintaining that small change day after day for weeks, months, even years.  It is this […]