While in school, I hated group work. All the way through college, every time a teacher or professor would assign a team assignment, I would cringe.

Alone, a person may have a bad idea or decide to do something dangerous. And that would hurt the one. But, if they are in a group of similar individuals, he/she can suggest it becomes something they do together and bring down the whole. But the inverse is true as well.

Cooking is one of the most important skills anyone can have. Being able to take some simple ingredients and turn them into something delicious for the people you care about is special.

Putting pen to paper is powerful. It’s permanent, for one. It literally makes a statement. And when you go from having an inkling of a dream in your mind to a concrete goal that you’ve written down on paper, it becomes real.

Trust in your instincts and abilities to handle any situation and push on through. Because you never know what the next turn in the path will bring.

Growing up, I had a much younger cousin who was obsessed with baby ducks. She’d chase them all around my Grandparents yard, squealing the entire time with delight and anguish.

location to another, it is fascinating to explore better and stronger channels of transference. Information Systems Theory, or IST, explores how information flows from sender to receiver.

Believing that you can do something is almost as important and putting in the hours of training to make yourself great.

There will be moments when you fall. This is not an indication of weakness or inability. It is simply a fact. There will be a wall you cannot climb or a ravine too wide to jump. It takes tremendous strength of character to realize that help is needed and then seek out that aid.

After college and before marriage and kids, I had this little window where I lived with my parents, had a decent job and few bills. I was too immature to know that I should be saving for a down payment on a house or investing for the future. No, I was busy building one of the largest collections of DVD’s in East Kentucky.

People are going to let you down. Hopefully not often, but it will happen.

You will never regret being present. Not for a second.

I am as un-crafty as you can imagine: can’t paint, can’t draw. When I had a 3D art class in college, I almost burned my hand off using an industrial strength glue gun.

I once heard a story about an old farmer who was barely scraping by. He and his son did all they could to survive on their farm.

Learning shouldn’t end once your school days are over. And it should’t be just facts or trivia, but if you want to win the quiz bowl at the corner bar, that would help

Taking care of your finances is so important, but most of us just assume it will take care of itself.

The Chinese word for “Crisis” is a combination of “danger” and “opportunity!” Hard times will come; how we handle them is up to us.

Will Ferrell, playing the illustrious racer Ricky Bobby in Talladega Nights once said, “If you ain’t first, you’re last!”

Giving more than you take is the best way to make sure that you leave the world better than you found it.

Just as we should never strive for perfection, we should never settle for "Fine" or "good enough."