Cultivate Courage Blog

When I was a young boy, I loved to grab my fishing pole and walk down to the lake at the edge of downtown and fish. This wasn’t worm and bobber fishing for panfish but casting with a daredevil to try and catch a big northern pike. One evening I was sure I had hooked...

She pulled up in her soccer mom van like a woman on a mission! My wife was working until noon, which left me in charge. We had a couple of friends who had added some of their once highly valued items to be sold with ours. One of those ladies, Marsha (all names have...

I hope you had the opportunity to listen to Episode 14 of Bob Stromberg’s podcast Mastering the Craft of Creativity. It was an honor to be Bob’s featured guest, talking about fear and courage and the role those two emotions play in our lives every day. In Episode 15...

If you’re at all like me, you have people in your life that you admire from afar. You hope that someday you’ll have the opportunity to meet them, let them know how much you appreciate what they do, and how they have impacted your life. For me, one of those people is...

Once I was hired by a national fast food chain to appear in a commercial advertising the roll out of a brand new biiiiiiiig, thiiiiiiick, juuuuuuicy burger. I was pretty excited by this opportunity. Free food, make some cash, be on tv. What could go wrong? One thing I...

The headline is the response of Mary Swanson to Lloyd Christmas in the movie Dumb and Dumber when Lloyd asks her what the chances are of them ending up together as a couple. If you haven’t seen the movie you would guess that Lloyd would be greatly disappointed at...