Craig Lounsbrough

In "The Self That I Long to Believe In," I wrote the following quote: “Don’t underestimate your capabilities and your resources.  Realize that the resources that you possess outclass and outweigh any flaw, whether perceived or real.  You can wound magnificence, but magnificence only becomes more magnificent in the wounding.” Your abilities … [Read More]

Face it, there are just some things that we don’t like to do.  We all have those irritating things that incessantly demand our attention.  Every one of us has a collection of loathsome demands that keep throwing themselves in front of us.  Our lives are chock full of repetitive tasks, missed agenda items, overdue obligations, lapsed deadlines, and … [Read More]

It seems one of the oddest dichotomies.  Life is full of strange and downright weird contradictions.  At many times in our lives, at many points both important and not so important we find ourselves pulled in two completely opposite, but equally compelling directions.  At times it seems that two entirely different people reside within us, each … [Read More]

Complacency is a potently tragic hallmark of our lives.  We’ve certainly got bunches of it.  In fact, as the old saying goes, we’ve got it “in spades.”  Complacency is conceived in the bosom of familiarity, where something becomes so commonplace that we errantly render it as ‘common.’  We’ve yet to beat this terribly corrosive tendency we have to … [Read More]