What does the Flag mean to you?
By Jim Whitt My friend John Teeter shared a story with me that is appropriate as we celebrate Independence Day: “When I was 23 years
By Jim Whitt My friend John Teeter shared a story with me that is appropriate as we celebrate Independence Day: “When I was 23 years
By Jim Whitt After picking up the mail Charlie Mitchell and I were on our way out of the Post Office when a man pointed
Perfect can be defined as being entirely without fault or defect. It is human nature to desire perfection. In a perfect world, no one would suffer or struggle. But that is precisely the opposite of what we need or even want. In the words of Viktor Frankl, “Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.” Frankl, a neurologist and psychiatrist, was incarcerated in Auschwitz, the most famous of the Nazi’s concentration camps during World War II. It was in this hell-on-earth that Frankl validated his theory of Logotherapy which he chronicled in his book, Man’s Search for Meaning. “It is one of the basic tenets of Logotherapy that man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life,” wrote Frankl. “That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has meaning.”
By Jim Whitt The following story about Doc Lunsford was published on December 23, 1991. It remains one of my favorites. So much so that
In the days of segregation, my mother, my father, and a young baseball player named Billy provided me with a lesson in race relations that I’ll never forget. Race relations is about doing the right thing. Regardless of the color of our skin.
By Jim Whitt There’s a monument in Liberal, Kan. that reminds me of how different the world looked like 30 years ago. It’s easy to
By Jim Whitt As this was our first trip to France we suffered from a perpetual state of directional disability. And that is how we
By Jim Whitt I conducted an experiment on Facebook posting this question: “I’m doing research for an article I’m writing and need some help. What
By Jim Whitt As this was our first trip to France we suffered from a perpetual state of directional disability. And that is how we
It’s easy to criticize, condemn and complain. That leads to finger pointing and often escalates into a volatile situation where everyone loses. We can deescalate a volatile situation by learning the power of six magic words. People complain that things need to change. Yet, they could be the change they’d like to see. It’s amazing how many problems can be resolved when we decide to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.
By Jim Whitt Golf looks like an easy game when you watch the pros on television. The problem starts when you go to the golf
By Jim Whitt This was orginally published two years ago but the message needs to be repeated until we “get it.” There is one number
By Jim Whitt Having accumulated a coat of mud and manure on my boots while touring cattle operations in Texas I decided to
By Jim Whitt On May 6, 1954 Roger Bannister ran a mile in 3:59.4 minutes. That’s no big deal if you consider the fact that
By Jim Whitt When was the last time you saw someone using a Blackberry? In the not too distant past they were the king of
By Jim Whitt In the opening scene of an episode of Gunsmoke, Matt Dillon rides up on a peddler who is camped alongside a creek.
The following is a favorite of Noel Ledermann, one of our longtime readers. It was originally published October 18, 2006. Please let me know if
By Jim Whitt If you were going to build the largest hotel in North America, where would you build it? The logical thing to do
By Jim Whitt When you walk into a fast-food restaurant, how long do you expect to wait from the time you order until you get
By Jim Whitt As this was our first trip to France we suffered from a perpetual state of directional disability. And that is how we
If your life was a movie how would you write the script? This is one of the methods that Dr. Henry Cloud, author of 9 Things You Simply MUST DO to Succeed in Love and Life, has found that successful people use. They “play the movie.” They imagine the possible outcomes — both negative and positive — based on the possible actions they could take. And they use this method whether making a big decision or a small one. “Successful people evaluate almost everything they do in this way,” says Cloud. “They see every behavior as a link in a larger chain, a step in a direction that has a destination.” They never “see any individual action as a singular thing in and of itself.”