My six-year-old son has never been too interested in learning to ride a bike without training wheels.  When he was five he would watch other kids do it and say, “I think I’ll try that when I’m six.”  After he turned six, he would see other kids riding their bikes

Hardiness In the last post I wrote about the two elements of trust – competence and character. These two are incredibly important things to look for in anyone we are in a relationship with or work with. If I could only have one other quality in the people that I

When someone says that they do or do not trust someone, they are making a statement about their belief in either someone’s competency, their character, or both. Competency is someone’s ability to do a particular thing and to do it well. Someone’s character is their commitment to do what is

Although Chutzpah is a Yiddish word – not one of the Biblical languages: Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic – it is an important word for understanding the Biblical concept of faith. Chutzpah is a word that means audacity, gall, nerve, fierce determination, refusing to quit or let go even when you

I remember when I was a kid trying to walk across this balance beam. It was about four feet off the ground. I fell off every time. The crazy thing was that there was this other balance beam that was the same width as the four foot one on the