Sean D. Francis

Quo Vadimus.  I’m definitely not the first blogger who took inspiration from this phrase, a phrase I first heard on the Aarin Sorkin TV show Sports Night.  Quo vadimus means in Latin, “Where are we going?” You know, I haven’t actually looked that up and I’m taking Aaron’s word for it.  Screw it, I have [...]

Everywhere I read, I see people writing about their resolutions for 2011. Weight-loss, stop smoking, and a variety of self-improvement steps are all resolved. I know a lot of people have jumped on the anti-resolution bandwagon. They decry resolutions as a tool of procrastination. Don’t put off ’til tomorrow what you can do today. There [...]

From this blog’s previous entry, I know that posture does have a biological effect on the human body.  Certain postures associated with ‘being in power’ actually create more testosterone in the body while decreasing the hormone associated with stress – cortisol.  As irrational as it may seem, this means if a person is lacking confidence [...]

By now you may have already heard about the bold and exciting trick play used in a middle school football game.  Here is a video of that play in case you aren’t familiar with it.

It may seem like I am hammering the forgiveness topic to death but it really is something that weighs heavily on my mind.  I often find myself being blindsided by things in the past that I still beat myself up for.  I can be in the shower, writing, doing dishes, or even watching television and [...]

To the victor goes the spoils. Failure is a popular topic and I spend a lot of time thinking about the concept of failure. Failure occurs when a plan does not succeed. Plan to wake up early and sleep in, that’s a failure. Plan to sell 100 units this week but sell only 99, that’s [...]