Author: dempsey

Not everyone, but most of us need about 8 hours of sleep. Sadly, we get by on 6 1/2 hours, and it isn’t uncommon to survive on 5 hours of sleep. For most of...

Censorship is the height of vanity.        Martha Graham

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Even the sharks left her alone on her 110 mile, 53 hour swim from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida. She swam without a shark cage, the first person in history to do so....

There’s no good answer to a stupid question.       Russian proverb

Living in the most protected area of our brain, the amygdala is our fear and emotion center. That lizard brain wants to protect us when we feel threatened. A cheetah may be chasing us,...

I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all the time, somehow things will work out in the end.   Larry Bird

We’re not in this to test the waters; we are in this to make waves.

Joe Montana was an football athlete. Michael Jordan, basketball. Gordon Ramsey is still a chef athlete. And you are an athlete. Maybe not a professional one, but still, an athlete. And here’s why, according...

One hundred years ago Hester Prynne, of  The Scarlett Letter, was given an “A” for adultery. Today she would rate no better than a C+.                  ...