Cultivate Courage Blog

One of my goals for 2015 is to ride my bike 1,000 miles. Part of that goal includes a century ride, which, I’m sure you can figure out, is riding 100 miles in a day. I am currently in the midst of my training regimen for the century ride, which will take place on...

As I get ready to head out for a week at the lake with my family I thought I would repost this blog for myself and hope that it has some benefit for my readers. Things are better but this is still a good reminder for me! My business as a speaker, coach, and trainer is...

One of the reasons I do what I do with my speaking is I want to encourage people to recognize that we are all capable of accomplishing so much more than for what we give ourselves credit. I worked really hard on that last sentence to make sure I didn’t have a dangling...

I often struggle to define courage and why I am so passionate about it. Courage is one of those things that I recognize when I see it but wrestle to put the words together to create a definition. In my efforts to define courage I often use a quote to help people...

Grand Rapids, MI is not the place you would normally expect to see a tiger on the loose.   On Thursday, May 28, it looked like that bit of normalcy was coming to an end. The Animal Control office of Grand Rapids received a call of a tiger sunning itself in the...

I did something on Saturday that I don’t think I have ever done before. I made a purchase at a garage sale and I didn’t ask to have the price discounted! Some of you are horrified that I didn’t ask for a discount and others of you are saying to yourselves, “I didn’t...