Most of us think of work as the time we spend earning money to enjoy the rest of our time. Or, as the bumper sticker with the seven dwarfs said, “I owe, I owe, so off to work I go!” And there’s no denying it, for most of us, work is a necessity […]

When we think of play, we usually picture children. But play is valuable to adults as well. When we were young, play was our social networking, our way of learning, our exercise and our escape. The same is still true in adulthood, but may of us have forgotten how to play. […]

I am Jim Lockwood, a 44 year old man living in central California, USA with my wife, youngest son (the oldest recently moved out), two dogs and a cat. For the past 22 years I have worked with youth and families in Texas, Florida, and California. I started as a residential counselor at a children’s […]

For most of my life I have been a goal setter. I guess it’s related to my attraction to numbers, statistics, and basically measuring things. I started around age 14 selecting measurable targets for things I wanted to achieve in life. And doing so had a tremendous impact on who I have become.
But life is […]