Cultivate Courage Blog
How to Avoid the Great Pumpkin Takeover
When we purchased our home just about a year ago we became the beneficiaries of a beautiful vegetable garden. This garden was the result of the hard work of the previous homeowner. When spring came this garden was in for a rude awakening as gardening is not something...
Lessons Learned in Improv Class
I am a HUGE fan of improv comedy and for over twenty years our family has frequently attended an improv comedy house in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area called Comedy Sportz. The ability to take ideas from the audience and mold them into a hilarious skit on the spot is...
Do You Dis or Do You En?
When I was a young boy I remember fighting with my brothers over who would get to use the candle snifter to extinguish the flame on the candles after we had company. Sure, we could have just blown them out but using the snifter was more fun. Back in the day, when we...
The Courage to Love
His name is Theo. As I write this he is 4 ½ months old. He is my grandson and fourth grandchild. Theo was born with a heart condition that required him to have surgery 3 days after he was born. His condition is/was called coarctation of the aorta. His surgery went...
Do You Play to Score or Not to Lose?
“If you don’t play offense all the time, every day, every year, no matter how successful you become, someday you will wind up playing defense.” Those are the words of entrepreneur extraordinaire, Gary Vaynerchuk, in his book titled, “Crushing It.” In the “About the...
The Search for Significance
"You know we just don’t recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they’re happening. They simply brush past us like a stranger in a crowd." That’s a snippet from one of my favorite movie quotes of all time. It’s from Field of Dreams my all-time...
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