Our Thirty Seconds is a journey on which we are both passenger and pilot. We make hopeful choices every moment of every day, some more noteworthy than others. Ultimately these choices fill our Thirty Seconds...

Just  a little something I’ve noticed that is probably so ubiquitous it doesn’t even phase us anymore.  Complaining and not doing. It’s rampant.
I’m getting irritated by the number of people who complain about the hardships of life…why certain things aren’t their fault…if only “this” had happened instead of “that”…the unfairness of it all.  I do it [...]

Sometimes I feel like George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” when he’s standing on the bridge after finding out the world was not a better place because he had never been born.  He is crying to God, “I want to live again.  I want to live again.  Please God…let me live again.”
I’m trying pretty [...]

Phase II: Designing the Symbol
Many of you don’t know I’m in the jewelry business.   This is material only because we are going to produce Thirty Seconds “Pay It Forward” symbol that we can wear to remind us to be cool to other people…and to show the rest of the world that we’re part of the [...]

This is something new…that has sort of been happening without my knowing…showing that good things can come out of bleak situations.  This is an introduction to a project that is being launched as we speak.  There will be much more information coming because I can’t seem to write it all out without it becoming a [...]

I’m not a afraid of being afraid anymore.  I respect fear…and it’s time I make friends with it because I don’t think it’s trying to hurt me…I think it’s here to help me.  We’ve all heard that the only thing to fear is fear itself.  Yeah…I don’t believe that anymore.  I think the only thing [...]