Steve Goodier Wisdom: Wiser Than You Know!

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about wisdom. Enjoy!

In many areas you are knowledgeable. But do you know that you are wise, too? Perhaps far wiser than you realize.

Wisdom is more than knowledge. Wisdom is the product of lessons learned in the school of life. Wisdom can be hard won; for it is often birthed in the ashes of failure. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Touch of Wonder

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about wonderment. Enjoy!

Two little children, a boy and a girl, walked hand-in-hand to their neighbor’s house. Standing on her tiptoes, the little girl was just able to reach the doorbell. A woman greeted them and asked what they wanted. “We’re playing house,” the little girl answered. “This is my husband and I am his wife. May we come in?”

Thoroughly enchanted by the scene confronting her, the lady said, “By all means, do come in.” Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Making Those Obstacles Vanish

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about perseverance. Enjoy!

American President John Quincy Adams once said, “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” It’s true!

Look what happened recently to a North Carolina church that wanted to purchase some property. The church regularly suffered from high tide flooding. But when the church was built over a hundred years ago, they couldn’t afford better property. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Everything Counts

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about our influence. Enjoy!

African-American poet Countee Cullen spent the summer of his eighth year in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly after he arrived he noticed a little white boy staring at him. Countee smiled, but the little boy did not smile back. Instead, he stuck out his tongue and called him a “n*****.”

Cullen later wrote a poem that included his recollection of the summer when he was eight. In it, he says this: Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Get Ready!

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about preparation. Enjoy!

You heard about the sign posted on a rancher’s fence? On the other side of the fence resides the biggest, meanest looking bull you can imagine. The sign is intended to strike fear into the hearts of would-be trespassers. It reads: “Don’t attempt to cross this field unless you can do it in 9.9 seconds. The bull can do it in 10 flat!” Don’t try to cross that field unless you are prepared! And isn’t that the way it is in life? We have to be ready when the opportunity arises or else we will have little chance of success.

Sixth-grade schoolteacher Ms. Shelton believed in readiness. Students remember how she walked in on the first day of class and began writing words of an eighth-grade caliber on the chalkboard. They quickly protested that the words were not on their level and they couldn’t learn them. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: A Monster to Hug

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about facing fear. Enjoy!

One couple spent a holiday driving in the mountains. “Every time you race around one of those narrow curves,” exclaimed the wife, “I just get terrified.”

“Then do what I do,” suggested her husband. “Close your eyes!” We are all afraid at times, but closing our eyes is not always a helpful way through fear. Better to open your eyes and face those fears head-on. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: When Others Hurt Us

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about healing. Enjoy!

As the Hayman wildfire in Colorado begins to wane, those of us living around the perimeter occasionally allow ourselves glimmers of hope that all will soon be normal again. No, the forests will not return for many years. Houses lost will not be rebuilt soon. And displaced families won’t find anything resembling normal for many months. The fire itself will still smolder, we’re told, until snow flies this Fall. But, just as crocuses pushing through frozen ground announce the coming of Spring, so patches of blue sky through smoky haze now proclaim the worst may be over.

The fire, we have learned, was set by a forest service technician. She probably never intended to burn almost 140,000 acres of beautiful wilderness in the Rocky Mountains, but it will be months before courts determine whether or not the catastrophe was purely accidental. Numerous homes were destroyed. Lives of firefighters were lost, not by flames, but an automobile accident as they rushed to help. The cost of fighting the fire and property damage will be in the hundreds of millions. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Dream Something Beautiful

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about beauty. Enjoy!

A mother of a vivacious five-year-old just returned from a meeting of the National Organization for Women. Stirred by exciting dreams for the possibilities of womanhood, she asked her daughter what she wanted to be when she grew up. Little Lisa quickly answered, “A nurse.”

There was a time when nursing was thought of as a woman’s profession and the answer somehow seemed not to satisfy. She had, after all, just returned from a NOW conference. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Say, “AWE”

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about wonderment. Enjoy!

Albert Einstein said that wonder is the source of all true art and all science. “He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

During our recent visit to Peru, we were amazed at the magnificent Incan architecture. Their precise stonework has withstood the centuries, though earthquakes have toppled other buildings all around. We were enthralled by the terraces the Incan people built on the sides of Andean mountains to grow crops. They created perhaps the finest irrigation system the world had known at the time. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Celebrating You!

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about celebrating ourselves. Enjoy!

An old story tells of an unhappy and discontented stonecutter. One day he came upon a merchant and was awe-struck by all of the marvelous goods the man had for sale. “I wish I were a merchant,” said the stonecutter and, quite amazingly, his wish was granted.

Not long afterward he saw a parade pass his little shop. Spying a prince dressed in splendor such as he had never before seen, he said, “I wish I were a prince.” And he became one. Read more

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