Cultivate Courage Blog

To this day, close to ten years later, I still have no idea what I did. His name was Kevin. He was a sales representative for a company that I worked for. I was his sales manager. I had been working with Kevin for several months. He was a rep that I enjoyed working...

Today’s blog post marks a milestone that I never thought about reaching. One of my challenges in life is I often start things without much of a plan or thought. This blog would certainly fall into that category. When I started it seemed like a good idea to share my...

Have you ever avoided doing something because it was unpleasant to you? I think we can all say that we have done that at one time or another. Has anyone else paid a price because of your avoidance of that unpleasant task? For several years in my corporate days I...

He was wearing a fluorescent green vest when I first saw him up ahead in the distance. It took me about ten minutes going at my regular pace on my bike before I caught him on his. Obviously, he wasn’t out for a morning ride as I was. His bike had small backpacks...

Last week I was fortunate to be able to attend a simulcast of the Willow Creek Global Leadership Summit for the very first time. Let me tell you, if you haven’t been before, you need to go. The dates for the 2016 Summit are August 11 & 12. Last week I wrote about...

Last week my car broke down on the freeway as I was driving to Minneapolis. I had a speaking engagement the next day in St. Paul. Fortunately, I had left home a day early even though I had contemplated leaving early the next morning. Time to put my Figure It Out...