by Artie Isaac | Jun 23, 2015 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
Matt Slaybaugh recently sent me these familiar words, from the commencement address to the graduates of Kenyon College in 2005. I've taken several minutes to digest them anew. I'd read them years ago, back when the speech first hit the Web. I've...
by Artie Isaac | Jun 21, 2015 | Living an engaged life, On Ethics
[NOTE: This is written for Net Cotton Content by Helen Hazelwood Isaac.] When I was seven years old, the fathers of my classmates at Columbus School for Girls organized a retreat to a YMCA campsite. There were about twelve father-daughter pairs, and we all slept...
by Artie Isaac | Jun 4, 2015 | Coaching Topics, It happened, Living an engaged life, New Competence
There was a time when I was very resistant to changing my life. This is about that time. I owned a business. Called "Young Isaac" — after the founding partner, Brooks Young — it was an advertising agency where I sat all day, but I never did the...
by Artie Isaac | Jun 2, 2015 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, New Competence
I was frenetically bored. My friend and teacher, Steve Anderson, helped me realize this. He said: "You bounce out of bed at five every morning without an alarm clock. You run around all day, doing all kinds of honorable, effective things. You...
by Artie Isaac | May 16, 2015 | Living an engaged life, New Competence
During the coming days, a pair of family graduations: one high school, one college. Due to the work, growth and achievements of the students, these are among our life's most profound celebrations. Is it humbling?Why do people who experience similar simchas...
by Artie Isaac | Apr 9, 2015 | Coaching Topics, Living an engaged life, On Creativity, On Ethics
That ring on your finger — who will wear it after you die? When your great-great-grandchild (or -nephew, or -niece, or -friend) receives your cherished ring (or necklace, or candlestick), that child will surely ask: "Who was [your name]?" It might be...
