My wife and I rented The Bucket List with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman last weekend and really enjoyed it. If you haven’t seen it yet, it is about two men who are sharing a hospital room both fighting sickness and they find out at the same time that they have between six and 12…
I started "re-reading" Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird. I was going through my bookshelf the other night and found a lot of my "required reading" from high school and thought I might need to read these things through at least one good time since they are American classics. Funny thing is that I…
I’m re-reading Rick Warren’s book, The Purpose Driven Life, and came across a point that hit home with me – hard – and I’m sure a lot of people just kind of gloss over it and don’t even pay that much attention to it. Pastor Warren is talking about how to worship Almighty God even…
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." – Andrew Carnegie I read this quote this morning and I totally agree with it! One thing that great leaders do is empower those around them to get better, do better and…
I guess I would like to welcome myself back. I have been on vacation and taking some time for some other things over the last few weeks, so I haven’t had a good chance to post to TrippAtkins.com in several weeks. Look for new content to be hitting the site in the next few days…maybe…