by Mark Edge | Jun 20, 2025 | Emotional Health
What can light your fire at work? What can sabotage you at work? Next week, I’d like to talk with you about Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence. I’m reading it for the second time because I have found it to...
by Mark Edge | Jun 13, 2025 | Emotional Health
In the 1930s, S. W. Fears and his family lived in a boarding house near downtown Tyler. During this time, when S. W. was around five or six years old, he enjoyed dangling his legs off the front porch and watching the trains pass by on the nearby railroad tracks. One...
by Mark Edge | Jun 6, 2025 | Employee Productivity
I don’t know about you, but I always want to guard against a minimal effort. I want to give my best. And part of that commitment means doing my homework. Preparation for success is not just essential; it’s empowering. As the legendary John Wooden, the person voted the...
by Mark Edge | May 29, 2025 | Employee Productivity
“The proper work of the mind is the exercise of choice, refusal, yearning….What then can pollute and clog the mind’s proper functioning? Nothing but its own corrupt decisions.” –This quote is from Epictetus, a Greek philosopher who lived in the 1st and 2nd...
by Mark Edge | May 23, 2025 | Emotional Health, Employee Productivity, Spiritual Health
Imagine if I told you that your little brother or sister, your son or daughter, or your grandson or granddaughter could be virtually guaranteed that he or she will not live in poverty? Well, I can. Here’s how: Finish high school. Get a full-time job (at least 35 hours...
