Early in the morning on Friday, December 28, 2018, Karren Guymon, widow, mother, daughter, sister, and friend, quietly lost her battle to uterine cancer at the age of 75 years. Karren will be forever remembered by her children Kelly, Mark, Matt, Shane, Ethan, and Shauna. By her grandchildren Trevor, Lauren…

It fascinates me that a series of seemingly unfortunate events often lead to beautiful results. — The month of December in 1964 had an average temperature of 44° in Provo, Utah. I imagine that the feeling of Christmas was freshly wafting through the crisp winter air. Lifting the hearts of the people all around and filling them with bright Christmas cheer. Somewhere on the campus of…

The way most companies budget money, is through a bucketing system, which makes sense from an accounting perspective. However, most companies put conferences in a training or learning bucket from a budgeting stand point, which I believe is the wrong way to think of conferences. — Attending a conference shouldn’t be looked at as a way to receive training or as a tool for career development. This is very short sited and it greatly skews how we, as employees, should approach a conference in general. …

From a distance I watched as my 7 year old son Jack, who had reached the end of our street and had ridden across to the other side, continued along the sidewalk headed east until he was out of my sight. — Jack had just freed himself of training wheels on his bike, was excitedly riding up and down our street and into driveways. He was filled with joy with this new life accomplishment. Instinctively I yelled his name as loud as I could as I sat, leaning forward, ready to stand…

A few years ago, I was driving to the store in December and listening to a radio station playing Christmas music and the song, “The Little Drummer Boy” came on. It was one of the first times in my life I actually listened to the lyrics of the song…

Steven Johnson does a really good job in this video of breaking down where good ideas come from. — “Good ideas normally come from the collision between smaller hunches. So that they form something bigger than themselves. So, you see a lot in the history of innovation, cases where someone has half of an idea.” This quote kind of sums up the entire basis of what Steven is…

He traveled through life enduring pain, heart ache, and grief. He traveled through this life in great humility and love. Eighteen years ago today, he left all the pains of his broken body behind. — My hero and Father, Michael Ned Guymon. 1938–1998 I think it’s interesting to take note of the posessions we hold onto. The possessions that help remind us of what our loved ones embodied. …

As the Presidential election is quickly coming upon us as a nation, we are all left to take a look at the state of our country and the state of the people that make up the country. We are all able to recognize that we, as a nation, aren’t where we feel we should be. Something is off, something is missing. — Instinctively we begin to try and fix or repair surface level problems, while remaining blinded to the deep rooted cause. The simple truth however, is that the problems in the United States will not be solved through litigation, legislation or any elected offices.

In Sunday school on Sunday (July 17th), the lesson was covering Alma chapters 17–22, but we never made it out of chapter 17. I, myself got stuck near the beginning of Alma chapter 17 — In this chapter we find Alma, as he is traveling to Manti from the land of Gideon southward, where he met with the sons of Mosiah, who were traveling to the land of Zarahemla. In verses 2–3 it reads, “Now these sons of Mosiah were with Alma at the time…