What fills your passion bucket?

What fills your passion bucket?

Passion, noun: strong and barely controllable emotion. (Oxford English Dictionary)What do you think of when you hear the word passion? You probably think of romance, love, a passion for someone who makes your heartbeat escalate. I love this definition of passion, a...

The inability to do nothing

I love history, especially learning about the Civil War and WWII. One of my favorite stories comes from the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2, 1863. It was the second day of the battle and the Union army stretched across the two hills, Big and Little Round Top, with...

Doubters, dreamers, and mending broken hearts

“Doubters are just dreamers with broken hearts.” – Atticus Why do we dream? Why do we doubt? In the tension between dreaming of what could be and doubting those same possibilities lies a valley of broken hearts. For every Little Engine that Could...

Time is the new money

Money used to make the world go ’round, but now we realize it’s only time that matters. What’s more valuable, your time or your money? I love this quote from Jim Rohn, “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot...

Who says you can’t?!

“Jon, writing isn’t your strong suit.” My English professor’s words rang in my ears. I was three weeks into her class with three grades on the weekly two-page papers: C+, D, and F. Three papers, each of them with regressively worse grades. It...