by Beth Lueders | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog Post, Perspective
Worry and panic are clawing into everyone’s psyche these days as COVID-19 creates scary headlines around the globe. But the novel coronavirus is not exactly the horrific bubonic plaque of the 1300s that killed an estimated 75 million to 100 million throughout Europe....
by Beth Lueders | Nov 7, 2019 | Blog Post, Perspective
We all encounter ladders in our lives. Sometimes we put our foot on the wrong ladder and start climbing away without even realizing that we’re headed in the wrong direction. Some of us clamor to climb the corporate ladder, others of us scurry to climb the social...
by Beth Lueders | Jul 12, 2019 | Blog Post, Perspective
Fear has a way of bulldozing its way into our lives. Uninvited. Unwilling to leave. Fear keeps us sidelined and imprisoned in puny thinking. Author Max Lucado shares the following poignant thoughts on the pervasiveness of fear and how courage and faith counter our...
by Beth Lueders | Nov 8, 2018 | Blog Post, Everyday People, Resilience
Valor. What does valor mean to you? The dictionary gives us a working definition: val·or /ˈvalər/ noun 1. great courage in the face of danger, especially in battle. “the medals are awarded for acts of valor” I like the list of synonyms that accompanies the...
by Beth Lueders | Mar 11, 2018 | Blog Post
In 1903, Mary Anderson invented the first windshield wiper blade. Five years later, housewife Melitta Bentz patented a coffee filter system. In the 1950s, bank secretary and single mom Bette Nesmith Graham created Mistake Out (later patented as Liquid Paper®). And for...
