Cultivate Courage Blog

If you’ve read my blogs for any period of time you know that I struggle with the three words listed in the title of this post. Once I took a free online version of the Strengthsfinder assessment. I had previously taken the actual assessment where they reveal your top...

First of all, let me thank you for reading my blog. Some of you are new and others of you have been reading faithfully for nearly three years! In order to continue to grow my blog and be sure I am meeting your needs I need to know more about YOU! To do that I have...

 In an effort to gain greater impact with my business I am beginning to work with someone who understands things like SEO, Google Analytics, and a bunch of other stuff I know nothing about. I don’t know what I don’t know. As I start this process I thought it would be...

From 1956 until 2001 there was a tv show that ran called “To Tell the Truth.” The show included a panel of celebrities asking questions to three guests all claiming to be the same person who had accomplished some great feat or task or had some unusual claim to fame....

This is a guest post by Paul Gustavson. Paul is the co-founder and CTO of Simventions, a multi-faceted technology company in Fredricksburg, VA. He has recently released his powerful new leadership book, Leaders Press On, which describes the critical importance of...

A man was walking by what had once been a vacant lot for many years. He noticed a man doing some masonry work and asked him what he was doing. The man, with great indifference, responded, “I’m laying bricks,” and he went back to his task. The inquirer felt as though...