Just Too Logical

Today President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah very surprising…or is it? Read more…

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Are you choosing freedom for now, or freedom for life?

1 scoop now or many scoops later?

About a month ago I was at the mall and my daughter wanted to go to the kids play area. My wife however wanted to take her to another store to buy shoes.  So we gave her the option: play now for “only a little bit” or play after shoe-shopping for “a longer time”.  My 4 year old daughter paused for a minute, considered her options, asked me to confirm that she’d still get to play “today” either way, and then to my surprise decided to maximize her play time by shoe-shopping now. I was amazed and proud. Rarely do kids/young people delay instant gratification.  This got me thinking of the decisions I’ve made over the last 10 years. I wasn’t perfect, but realized I had made 4 decisions that changed my life forever. Read more…

Charles Godfrey Life Lessons

Would you hire you? Are you still worth it? Do you still deserve your job? Would you lay yourself off? Would you fire you? Read more…

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Flag of Belize

As I mentioned before, I’m a mixed Hispanic who can barely speak Spanish. I should know the language since I had to take it for 4 yrs in high school growing up in Belize.  But Belize is an English speaking country and is more “caribbean” than it is “central american”. At least the city I grew up in. I get grief about this ALL the time and have had a couple funny incidents because of this. Read more…

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