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Are you Awareness driven, or Focus driven?
We are all Imbalanced It’s important that we don’t get so caught up in where we are going that we forget where we are. It is equally...
Joel Smith
Jul 18, 20174 min read


How We Show Appreciation
The 5 Languages of Appreciation A couple of weeks ago I was able to hear Dr. Paul White talk about his book that he co-authored with Gary...
Joel Smith
Jun 13, 20173 min read


Are You Struggling at Work?
Emotional Distress in the Workplace Have you ever found yourself stuck in your job feeling like you have come to the end of a dead-end...
Joel Smith
Apr 27, 20173 min read


Principles vs. Values
Remember the story of the Three Little Pigs? One built his house out of straw, one with sticks and the last with bricks. They all three...
Joel Smith
Apr 11, 20174 min read


Get Out From Under That Bowl!
We have a problem in our country, in our world. People don’t seem to value themselves much. Suicide rates are up, people aren’t taking...
Joel Smith
Mar 23, 20173 min read
So What Makes YOU so Valuable?
 The Valuable Over the past few decades I have had the pleasure of working with hundreds of people. I have worked with some amazing...
Joel Smith
Feb 10, 20177 min read


A Few Questions About Tolerance.
What is it that we should tolerate? Should we tolerate someone else’s version of Good? Should we tolerate someone else’s version of Good, even when we believe it to be Evil? Who should we tolerate? Everyone? Should we tolerate those who don’t tolerate Evil? Should we tolerate those who DO tolerate Evil? Should we tolerate those who don’t tolerate others? If indeed I DON'T tolerate those who don’t tolerate others, does that make me intolerant? Have I become what I despise? I
Joel Smith
Dec 29, 20162 min read


Appreciation for Suffering
Lately I have been studying the topic of “suffering”. It sure has become more clear to me that we as Americans spend quite a bit of time and effort trying to shield ourselves from difficulty. We go to great lengths sometimes to keep ourselves and our loved ones from hardship. Unfortunately there are so many people suffering in the world. Some suffer for reasons brought on by their own decisions, some by evil and others simply because we are born into imperfect parishab
Joel Smith
Dec 20, 20163 min read


How Rock Music Shaped my Mind and Warped my Worldview
A powerful story of how a single song in childhood shaped identity, worldview, and direction—and how truth eventually replaced the illusions music created.
Joel Smith
Nov 10, 20165 min read


Influence from the Inside Out
You cannot change anyone. To grow, one must make an internal choice to become something you are not, or do something you have not done. ...
Joel Smith
Nov 1, 20164 min read


Grapes & Stuff – Raising Responsible Children
Over the past year my daughter Jordyn has gotten a little taste of what it is like to take on responsibilities to make money outside our home. She has been dog-sitting and house-sitting several times with her Mom and now has big plans for her money. She knows how much money she needs and exactly how she wants to save and spend it, or at least for the next 9 months until her 12th Birthday of which she has big plans and is very motivated. She wants to save around $350 to rent
Joel Smith
Sep 21, 20169 min read


Reason To Be
One of the hardest challenges we face as human beings on this earth is to find a reason to be. Purpose seems to be the one thing that you absolutely need to have in order to garnish any sense of worth. Most people have spent much time searching for it but struggle to find it. Sure, people do lots of things on purpose for lots of different reasons, but to tie them together for a bigger more important reason outside of there own need seems to be less popular than our Presidenti
Joel Smith
Sep 1, 20164 min read
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