personal growth

  • Small Steps for Nurturing Progress in Your Personal Growth

    Small Steps for Nurturing Progress in Your Personal Growth

    In 2011, Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer shared the results of an in-depth study in the Harvard Business Review entitled, “The Power of Small Wins.” They analyzed several thousand daily diary entries from 238 individuals to learn about their emotions, perceptions and motivations as they experienced each work day. During their analysis,…

  • 7 Posts for Personal Growth from Planting Small Seeds

    7 Posts for Personal Growth from Planting Small Seeds

    You really never know what life will bring. As an oft said saying  goes, “the  tallest  and  mightiest  oak  of  the  forest began  life  as  a  small  nut  that  stood  its  ground.” Look around you and observe or realize where you are planted. Grow from there. Here’s seven posts I’ve curated to help us…

  • The Library Doesn’t Want My Book and I’m Happy About it

    It’s coming up on ten years since my book, Baseball in Fort Wayne was first published. In my most recent book, Listen Up, Kids, I share the events that allowed that dream to became a reality. It’s a remarkable story that really shows the way God is faithful to his children, how he is always preparing and ordering our…