Will Your Vision Mature with Your Potential?
Parts II and 2 “If you do what you’ve always done, you may only get what you have always gotten.” Potential is such a vast subject; sometimes it’s best to combine philosophies if possible. Part I of II was The Promise of Potential, and that idea has not changed. Part 1 of 2 was Will…
Read MoreOwn an Award-Winning Book – For FREE! Offer
Sometimes it is nice to offer work for free. Although this isn’t a blog about eBooks, it is the eBook Can God Trust You with Trouble? that’s offered for FREE during Amazon Prime and MyWingman, LLC Days. Amazon Prime Days are from Oct 6-7, 2026, and I added a day, Oct 8, 2026, that I call MyWingman, LLC…
Read MoreWill Your Vision Help You Reach Your Potential?
Part 1 Sight is what you see with your eyes. Vision is what you see in your mind. What do you see for your future? Sometimes our vision only meets our capabilities, not our potential. Capabilities are what we know we can do. Potential is what we can do in the future. This may require…
Read MoreHunger Action Day: Join the Fight Against Hunger
No one wants to be hungry. River Bend Food Bank celebrated the Million Meal Match Kickoff Ceremony last week, coinciding with the start of the Student Hunger Drive. Both events are to increase food donations to feed the underfed in our local area and across the region. Next Tuesday, September 29, 2026, from 1- 3…
Read MoreThe Promise of Potential in Leadership Development Success
Part I “Leaders are developed over time and with great care.” (Randolph, 2019) The essence of that time and care in leader development is the promise of potential. Most people want to succeed and hope their supervisor, manager, or leader will help them achieve it. Although ‘hope is not a method’ (Sullivan, 1996), we cannot…
Read MorePublic Libraries: An Author’s Friend
Public Libraries were my second home when I worked on my doctorate. Once I became an author, I discovered just how much of a friend the public libraries are to authors. It’s not as complicated as you might think. Learning the Public Library System Not all books are free donations to libraries. Libraries must also…
Read MoreMultitasking for Effective Management
“Management is about coping with complexity” (Kotter, 1995, p. 115) Human Multitasking is defined as “the ability to perform more than one task or activity at a time.” Some people believe that talking on the phone and texting is multitasking. Others believe that driving while eating fast food is multitasking. I guess the definition requires…
Read MorePerfection: The False Expectation in Leadership
(Originally published as Perfection: The Fake News in Leadership on LinkedIn, May 6, 2019). Updated. Perfection is NOT required to be a successful leader. I cannot think of one thing in my life that I have done perfectly. Being thin was never a strength of mine (We live in a skinny-obsessed world). I have never…
Read MoreAnd the Silver Goes To…
Can God Trust You with Trouble? Winner of the Silver Medal Award in the Christian Living genre, 2026 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Contest! For two consecutive years, I have entered my books in book contests with positive results! In 2025, The Iraq I Knew… was an Award Finalist in the Nonfiction Adventure genre, placing…
Read MoreHighlighting the QCA Black Authors’ Forum
On Friday, August 21, 2026, the Fifth Annual Quad Cities Black Authors Forum was held from 6:00 to 7:30 pm at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Rock Island, IL. Of the authors pictured in the Author Group Photo, seven published their works for the first time during the last year. Authors write…
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