A Lesson From My First Day as A Radio DJ

by Ray Waters | Jul 15, 2016 | Blog Post, Growth

On a cold February afternoon in 1979, I drove the 5 miles from my high school to WSSA, a 5000 watt radio station located south of Atlanta. After interning for a month, I was about to sit behind the microphone for my first on-air shift. I would be working “afternoon...

Ready to Change

by Ray Waters | Jun 29, 2016 | Blog Post, Growth

Today you will do many things our of habit. It might be a good habit or it might be a bad habit. Some of these actions will propel you forward and some are keeping you stuck or even causing you to slip farther and farther away from the life you always dreamed of...

What Do You Want To See?

by Ray Waters | Jun 15, 2016 | Blog Post, Growth

In 1968, an educational study was done by by two researchers named Rosenthal and Jacobson which showed that teacher expectations influence student performance. Positive expectations influence performance positively and negative expectations influence performance...

Don’t Let Them Win

by Ray Waters | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog Post, Growth

I awoke yesterday morning to the news that another mass shooting had occurred. This one was in Orlando, Florida. When I started watching the news the death count was 20, and then it was 30, then it was 40 and soon it was 50, with 53 more wounded. It is now the...

Living Fuller

by Ray Waters | Jun 10, 2016 | Blog Post, Growth

This week I turned 54. I made it — another year in the books.  This morning I reflected on my life, and here are a few observations I have on getting older. The Franciscan friar and Catholic priest, Richard Rohr, is right. The journey to maturity includes building a...

What a Wonderful World

by Ray Waters | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog Post, Growth

Everyone knows gratitude is a critical virtue in living the ‘big life’. Read any list of mandatory morning habits for people who want to succeed and gratitude is always on the list. Grateful people are happier than ungrateful people. Grateful people are more...