Steve Wrigley was recently interviewed, and we decided to publish the questions and answers that he gave here on the blog. Enjoy! What’s something concrete and tangible you’ve learned in the last three months? People are amazing! Without people, you have nothing. With whatever we’re doing in life, we can create the big plans, draw up the strategy, and begin building it. But it will always [...]
The Importance of People
Recently, working in Cambodia on a volunteer mentoring program for orphans in Phnom Penh, I realized how important it is to have good people on the ground. For months we weren’t able to get moving on some plans there. It took me going there and working with some of the locals to move things forward.
Smile: the universal signal for joy and appreciation
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, accredited to H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Recently in Tibet, I had a hard time communicating with people. I speak Mandarin, but that only got me so far in the remote region where we [...]
Empowering is Realizing Potential
A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about what empowering children really means. My viewpoint hasn’t necessarily changed since then, it has only been expanded. I’ve recently finished reading Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and one paragraph in there stood out to me more than anything as I finished the book [...]
Imagine
What can you imagine? The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man…It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine. -Napoleon Hill Imagine something great, today. Imagine a healthy body for yourself and for all others. Imagine freedom. Imagine a world where children thrive. Imagine [...]
Love!
Og Mandino is one of my favorite authors. I especially love this line from The Scroll Marked II: I will greet this day with love in my heart…I will look on all things with love…I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. [...]
To Be Too Busy is 忙 (Loss of Heart)
In Chinese, I find it fascinating that the word for “busy” combines the radical for “heart” and the character for “to die” or “to be lost or gone.” I have to think there was some sort of intent to teach a lesson here when long, long ago the Chinese language was beginning to come together. [...]
Life=Risk
The journey of life is risk. It is certainly challenging. It is filled with road blocks and hiccups all along the way. But, don’t let that discourage you! Think about the words below:
Be the Change
“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were…[and then work towards the dream] -John F. Kennedy John was right…the world needs men and women to be visionary, to realize their potential, [...]
Turn that Frown Upside Down! (Impressions from Cambodia)
“Pessimism never won any battle.”-Dwight D. Eisenhower. Complaining and blurting out unconstructive remarks to yourself and/or others has never been and will never be a good thing. Funny thing is, we do so much of it! But why?
