Interruptions to our plans and expectations are a reality of life. Some interruptions are like rainy days in the Spring that can be anticipated, while others are like a new virus from a city in China that I've never heard of. All interruptions create challenges, and this is what we tend to focus on.

Here’s my reading list for the month of March:

Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath. This is a new book that just came out and the first that is written by Dan without his brother as the co-author. As

What character strengths are most predictive of wellbeing? This is the question that a research group was trying to answer in 2015. What they found and published might surprise you. It wasn't grit, passion, love, social intelligence, humility, or charisma. It was something more subtle.

Most of us have areas in our life that we want to change or grow in. Change typically happens in our lives in two primary ways.

The first way is through a substantial event.

Here is my list of favorite books I read in 2019:

How to Make Disease Disappear - Rangan Chatterjee. This book was given to me by a Dentist who has a passion for holistic health.

So it's a new month and that means a new reading list! Here is what I have on the docket for this month.

Old Testament History: An Overview of Sacred History and Truth by Wilbur Fields-

There are three basic approaches to leading those who are on your team:

1) Mentor approach – these are the leaders who lean on their own personal experiences and give advice-oriented feedback that helps personally develop and direct the people who they lead.

For most of human history, identity came from the community you belonged to. Your family. Your tribe. Etc. Because of this you knew the rules in which to play by. The value of seeking the community good and living with personal integrity was very important in that context.