Cultivate Courage Blog

If you are a dog owner or dog lover you know they have their own quirks just like us humans.  Check out the video below for a good laugh at a dysfunctional hound and, maybe, yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTCsRYr5KDs   I hope you enjoyed the video as...

"Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway!" Those are the words of the old tv and movie cowboy John Wayne. Sometimes saddling up is about not letting yourself get pushed around. As I sat in a small town shoe store waiting patiently for my wife, I...

“Living in regret robs you of your confidence.” This is the first line in a quote on parenting from a guy for whom I have the greatest respect, Paul David Tripp. Tripp is a pastor, conference speaker and author of many books of which I would recommend them all. I’ll...

“True behavior change is identity change.” As a young boy I used to love to watch Superman on tv. In vibrant black and white, Clark Kent would find out about someone needing his help. Immediately he would find the nearest phone booth. Almost instantly Kent would come...

He sat directly across from me. He was in his late teens or early twenties. There was about twenty feet between us as we each sat on a bench on opposite walls in the alcove of the hallway in the courthouse. To my right, his left was a long hallway that led to places...

“As I was listening to you talk about your book all I could think was that you must have been reading my diary!” Those were the words a lady shared with me moments after a recent TV interview I did for my book Cultivate Courage. She was listening just off camera and...