by Terry Moore, CCIM | Aug 4, 2023 | Living a Life Worth Imitating
Were you a naïve optimist when you were young? I’m using “naïve” here in the sense of “innocent” or “unsophisticated.” It’s easy to be a naïve optimist when you’re young. You don’t know much of the world, and you haven’t had time to have many plans that crumbled when...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jul 28, 2023 | Living a Life Worth Imitating, Popular Blogs, Top 30 Blogs
We didn’t choose our parents, the century, or the nation into which we are born. We didn’t select our sex, height, IQ, or race. Time and chance will affect us all. We all have both good luck and bad luck. Yet some people seem contented while others are angry or...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jul 21, 2023 | Living a Life Worth Imitating
Fresh out of college I embraced the enlightenment notion that humans were inherently good and therefore perfectible. I didn’t think evil really existed. My naive delusion was that good people would win, that evil would be destroyed, never return, and humanity would...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jul 14, 2023 | Living a Life Worth Imitating
Billy Graham called Corrie Ten Boom “an inspiration to millions.” In her speeches, articles, and books, she shared the story of hiding Jews from the Nazis in a secret room in her home. She described being arrested and how she survived the Nazi prison camps where her...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jul 7, 2023 | Living a Life Worth Imitating, Popular Blogs, Top 30 Blogs
When my wife said, “Your dad was a great man,” it seemed like a well-intended platitude. Yet, Sandy doesn’t waste words or flatter. She speaks the truth, routinely in love. My favorite cousin also said I had underestimated my dad. They were correct. Bill, my father,...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jun 30, 2023 | Living a Life Worth Imitating
The discussion was tense and should have been unnecessary. My two friends, whom I’ll call Able and Zed, were good guys who’d known each other for decades. It’s easy to believe the worst of others. For a generation, once a month, they worked at a public relations...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jun 23, 2023 | Living a Life Worth Imitating
With the passing decades, people attend fewer weddings and more memorials. My friend, hiking buddy, peer, and competitor, Brian died six days ago. Pancreatic cancer took his life within four months of the diagnosis. Fortunately, I had spent 70 minutes with him nine...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jun 16, 2023 | Living a Life Worth Imitating
Our uniqueness may be designed in, so we’ll be interdependent. That’s my belief. Read on and you’ll learn how your uniqueness can fulfill you and benefit those you know and care about. We each have unique strengths Technically you were born with talents and...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jun 9, 2023 | Living a Life Worth Imitating
“When I was 18, I thought my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just three years.” That quote is attributed to Mark Twain. I remember chuckling at it when...
by Terry Moore, CCIM | Jun 2, 2023 | Living a Life Worth Imitating
“I learned Spanish, but God taught me something entirely different.” Scott Sabin had just completed seven years in the Navy and was working on the final year of a master’s program in international relations so he could enter the Foreign Service. A friend suggested he...
