Technological advances have come at us with blistering speed since the World Wide Web became available to the public on April 30, 1993. Nearly 30 years later, we are continually bombarded every day with many forms of communication — phone calls, emails, texts, DMs, IMs, tweets, snaps, posts, and mobile app push notifications.

Have you ever turned your phone off or at least put it in airplane mode for a day, two days, or more? The silence is almost deafening. But it’s also renewing. It can take time to acclimate, but it’s worth it.

Escape to where there is no WiFi to find real connections

We have become addicted to our…

To say that my first month of getting involved in the Bitcoin revolution has been exciting would be an understatement. The cryptocurrency world has certainly been interesting to follow lately as new developments seem to be announced every day, each met with both excitement and controversy.

When I decided I would finally take the plunge to learn the process of investing in Bitcoin in early February, the price of a single Bitcoin was hovering around $34,000. …

I am by no means the perfect parent. In fact, I have made many mistakes along the way. But as my wife and I have now raised all our kids to adult age, I often reflect on how we pulled off raising children that have always followed their dreams. I realize it’s not all because of good parenting, but I think we did play some part in it.

The overarching theme in their development was always to encourage them to dream big and tell them that they could become anything they wanted to be.

If you ask our kids what…

Have you ever been part of an amazing team that worked so well to produce some incredible, almost miraculous, results?

A team in which all members provided encouragement to each other and worked so efficiently together, firing on all cylinders like a finely tuned machine? Even when the boss seemed to push the team harder to what seemed like an inevitable breaking point?

If your team doesn’t exhibit many of these characteristics and is somewhat dysfunctional, there are many things you can do to be a positive influence to inspire other members to join you to transform it into a…

We measure time in years, months, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

Time has a past — stop re-living its mistakes. Learn from them and move on.

Time has a future — it has yet to come, so don’t wish your present away by worrying about things that haven’t happened yet and may never.

Every fleeting moment is the present — be actively engaged and take the time to appreciate important people in your life.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of…