by Taylor Johnson | Nov 5, 2015 | Retirement
How do you know what you know? Is everything always clear to you? I know that I learn as my experiences pile up and I am exposed to other ways of thinking. Learning seems to me to be cumulative. Or maybe it is wisdom that is cumulative as the experiences pile up....
by Taylor Johnson | Nov 5, 2015 | Retirement
Watch this video and visit with me the Oval office, as it existed when Ronald Reagan was President of the United States. Yes, there is a jar of jelly beans behind the lamp. This video shows the ultimate in today’s world of the “seat of power.” In...
by Taylor Johnson | Nov 5, 2015 | Retirement
How we respond to failure is a choice, a very hard one. It is particularly hard when it is not our norm, when it shows up, as failure always does. Interestingly, for some it takes longer than others for it to both show up and be dealt with. My recent reading has...
by Taylor Johnson | Nov 5, 2015 | Retirement
The toughest challenges are the ones that you can not control, like the weather. Now that coffee farming in Laos, a business for missions, is part of my reality, I’m faced with this tough truth. I was thinking back to our years in Oregon. It rained all the time....
by Taylor Johnson | Nov 5, 2015 | Retirement
We usually want to start the New Year filled with hope. The start of the New Year is one of those times, those moments, that can be pivotal. Pivotal in the sense that we give ourselves the mental and emotional space to reflect, review, and re-position. Now is the time...
