by Ray Waters | Nov 7, 2016 | Blog Post, Growth
“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist I read a few years ago that babies are born with two innate fears. They are afraid of falling and they are afraid...
by Ray Waters | Nov 4, 2016 | Blog Post, Leadership
The Chicago Cubs won the World Series on Wednesday night. I had not watched a baseball game this year but I hung on every pitch for this one. The game included great baseball, a rain delay and an extra inning to figure out who would be the champions this year –...
by Ray Waters | Nov 2, 2016 | Adventure, Blog Post
I want to let you in on a secret to living a really big life. Are you ready? If you want to live truly big you must have some really interesting, outside of the box, unusual, eccentric, friends in your life. I am talking about people who are serious characters. In my...
by Ray Waters | Oct 31, 2016 | Blog Post, Growth
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference. I believe empathy has become a lost art in our society. Very few people try to actually put themselves in another person’s shoes...
by Ray Waters | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog Post, Growth
As a little boy I was taught before crossing the street to look left, then right, then left. I taught the same lesson to my children when they were little. Look left, look right then look left again. It works. It makes sense. It saves lives. It is true … if you live...