Morning Briefings

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy; there are many obstacles.

– Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. from
Handbook for the Soul

Meet the Meeting Killers: In the Office They Strangle Ideas, Poison Progress; How to Fight Back

– Sue Shellenbarger
The Wall Street Journal

A wise man once said, ‘the most important thing we do in life is show up.’ What he is telling us is that the purpose of life is to live, to live in a proper way. For a Christian, this means to live in a loving way, loving toward God, loving toward others

– Reverend James O’Leary
I Think I Am Happier Than I Think I Am

Freedom is glorious. But freedom also torments us because it requires us to create our own goals.

– Barbara Sher
I Could do Anything if Only I Knew What it Was

New figures out of the Census Bureau show that the rate at which Americans are starting new businesses is at a record low. That’s bad news for job seekers as well as entrepreneurs, with entrepreneurs creating 40% of all new jobs in the 80s but only 30% recently. These figures highlight the fact that despite the high-profile rises of the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and the increasingly loud buzz surrounding flashy, fast-growing tech start-ups, meat-and-potatoes small businesses spread throughout the country aren’t being created nearly as often as they once were.

– Inc. com
Start-up Fever? Actually, We’re in a New-Business Drought

If I am Thy child, O God, it is because Thou gavest me such a mother.

– St. Augustine

Who plants a seed beneath the sod and waits to see believes in God.

– Jane Kirkpatrick
A Land of Sheltered Promise

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives; do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.

– Kent M. Keith
Anyway–The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World

A small person with small ideas won’t lead us to new levels of excellence or an improved quality of life. There are a hundred times more small people than big people in the world. Wherever they are, they do their best to shoot down people with big visions, big dreams and big perspectives. This is sad, because all of us, including the small people, ultimately benefit from the big ideas.

– Kent M. Keith
Anyway–The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World

God is great, but sometimes life ain’t good, and when I pray it doesn’t always turn out like it should, but I do it anyway. I do it anyway.

– Martina McBride, Anyway from
Wake Up Laughing