It’s Thanksgiving Day!! Happy Thanksgiving!! This has been the craziest, likely the most memorable year of our lifetime! Or so we hope! Yet, even amid the pure craziness and adversity, we shall find a way to give thanks! We give extra thanks today, and we give thanks every day. I think all of us yearn for a day like today. A day filled with faith, family, friends, and true thankfulness. While 2020 has seemed to blow the socks off of normalcy for what most see in a negative light, most everyone still has a life to be thankful for. Most of us have a life full of people and possessions to be thankful for. Under our roof, we teach our kids that all that we have and all that we are is not our pos

Have you ever heard the phrase “more is caught than is taught”? I heard it quite a few years ago, it was coined by Dave Ramsey’s daughter Rachel Cruze. Our family had paid for her to be the annual “Food For Thought” speaker in the Dr. Dan Upson Lecture Series at Kansas State University, and I had the pleasure of meeting her. I have followed the Ramsey Family, their teachings, and how they “do life” for over 10 years now. And I’m not sure where I’d be without the real-life education received from their teachings. It has been through this process where I have learned learning is lifelong. To raise your game, you can’t stay the same. Anything worthwhile is an uphill battle that takes time and p

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Who has felt the pressure to have a difficult conversation with a team member lately? Have you had something you needed to talk to your veterinary technician about, the one who is underperforming and needing some words of clarity on expectations? Has your associate veterinarian not held up the standards and expectations of the practice as you have communicated, and you need to address that opportunity? Has your practice partner frustrated you with some of his or her repeated actions and you need to visit about them? I speak on this routinely because no one ever taught us how to have a difficult conversation. We have these without good guidance, wise experience, poor discernment, and inadvert