Cultivate Courage Blog

It’s called Kintsugi. It’s a Japanese method for repairing broken ceramics using adhesive materials mixed with gold, silver, or platinum. The idea behind kintsugi is to recognize and celebrate the history of an object. Rather than simply throw the piece away, or do...

“You don’t have to be afraid of the things you were afraid of when you were five!” Those are the words of Lionel Logue, speech therapist to Prince Albert, as he worked to help the second heir to the throne overcome his stuttering issues. You can see the whole story in...

Several years ago I was blessed to have the opportunity to do some work occasionally for a company called Top 20 Training. They work primarily in schools but also with businesses on simple but profound principles that will make a dramatic difference in how one lives...

She was probably about six or seven years old. The water came up just over her shoulders as she swam in the lake. I was almost close enough, as I sat on the dock watching her and others swimming, to reach out and grab her if something happened. A lifeguard was even...

When I clicked on the little round, colored ball in the dock on my Macbook Air computer, up popped my web browser of choice, Google. You see, Google is the browser I have set up as my default in my settings. On rare occasions when I click on the colored ball a...

They had met before but it was very brief. They had seen each other on rare occasions but the conversations were few, if any. She was scheduled to leave in just a couple of months to begin serving as a missionary in the country then known as Tanganyika. He had just...