Tonight I attended a dinner for the board I serve on at Utah Valley University. It was a western BBQ with cowboy hats and boots and sweet belt buckles! They had a banjo player and a yodeler and they did some cowboy poetry. It was a great evening and it reminded me of when we […]
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” – Stephen Hawking When an individual believes they know all the answers, they shut themselves down from the possibility that there is more they might learn on a subject. They limit themselves from experiencing personal growth and gaining intelligence. They are […]
Hindsight – how I wish we could have it on the front end of situations instead of going through hardships to figure out what you shoulda, woulda, coulda…but I guess then it wouldn’t be called hindsight 🙁 Today was a day when hindsight made it very clear what I shoulda done differently in a situation […]
When is the last time you allowed fear of failure to stop you from doing something? I love the quote in today’s title: “Instead of worrying about failure imagine what you miss out on by deciding to not even try.” I love it because it is so simple yet so impactful. It’s true, when you […]
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible […]
People often think they can’t change their past, but I disagree. Perhaps we can’t change every mistake in our past, but we have to remember that the past is a moving target. Every day that goes by us becomes a part of our past history. Whatever we do today will become a part of our […]
Just over five years ago, my husband and I were married. At the time, I had been a divorced, single mother of two for many years with a daughter who was 11 and a son who was 14. We were married on New Year’s Eve, so winter weather was in full force here in Utah, […]
Today I was a speed racer, but luckily there were no police officers pulling me over to give a ticket because I saved my speed racing for the Larry H. Miller raceway, where you get to pretend to be a real race car driver for the day! I went with my husband and a group […]
