For a good portion of my life, I have done what is comfortable for me. Comfortable meant taking the easy road, and it also meant knowing I’d always be good at what I was doing. Comfortable didn’t always mean what I wanted to do deep down in my...
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A Spark for Change: Courage Over Comfort
Blackbird Diaries: Flip It Today. Everyone Around You Knows You Can.
Those close to me are aware of my fondness for the term "flip", as it is often at the heart of whatever my strangely wired brain is thinking when approaching any situation. How do you flip your thinking on something around you to take a whole new...
Read MoreA Spark for Change: My Oh Maya
Today focuses around one of my favorite authors: Maya Angelou. I often dream of being in a room with her for an entire day while she showers me with advice and stories about absolutely anything and everything. I find her to be mesmerizing and...
Read MoreA Spark for Change: It is in You
I apologize for not blogging lately. I've been submerged in my work at school, but this column is always on my mind. There is something that is in my heart that I want to convey to all of you. What you need to become who you want and achieve what you...
Read MoreTricky to Make the Call on Treats with Weather, Posts, and Tweets Breathing Down Your Neck
Leadership sometimes calls leaders to make the tough call on critical issues, like when the kids can run around the community picking up M&M's, Snickers, and Milky Way bars. It's not the kind of thing we are used to fighting for, like health...
Read MoreJoining a Great Team
There are a number of aspects of society that help make up the fabric of a sustaining community. Business - both large and small - is a major one, and Ideas in Motion Media has the right idea when it comes to forming partnerships and working to...
Read MoreA Spark for Change: Reflection
A close friend gave me an idea for a topic to blog about, but I have been staring at a computer screen for days not knowing which keys to press first. I knew writing about this would be cause for me to be slightly vulnerable and really put myself out...
Read MoreThis is Your Race, You Own It
The 2013 Chicago Marathon is tomorrow. There are those who made the registration process, which was just the first little hurdle. You have made sacrifices that most will never understand. You have trained, trained and trained more than you have in...
Read MoreA Spark for Change: Find a Way
I started my Sunday morning about as well as one possibly could. On Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday, Diana Nyad, the first person to ever swim from Cuba to Key West, was there to shed light on her miraculous feat. Did I mention that she is 64-years-old?...
Read MoreLife is a Revolution: A Celebration of Local Manufacturing
In the movie Field of Dreams there’s that famous saying, “If you build it they will come.” In the case of Northwest Indiana manufacturing it could be said, “If you build it -local buildings and businesses- and hire good staff, they will help...
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