Mo Barrett

Slow down and speak English

… and Dad cheered me on the entire way

How do you communicate in the heat of the moment?

Cutting costs …

Where does gratitude fall in the nature-nurture spectrum?

I’ve always heard there were three sides to every story: his, hers and the truth (or hers, hers and the truth) (or his, his and the truth).

If you can’t say something nice to someone, talk bad about everyone. Nope, that’s not it. If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.

I recently unearthed a photo that helped me put a past incident into perspective. I offer this story for any who has ever over-inflated an incident without accurate recollection to put it in perspective.

Have you had an authority figure who helped change the trajectory of your life … by laughing at your dreams and goals? I owe a lot to my high school guidance counselor and his lack of support.

I’m the model sucker for any planner app, binder or technique. What I’ve ended up with is some bastardized amalgamation of all the systems, but it works for me. I’ve only recently realized that bastardly amalgamating systems is genetic.