

Take a Deep Breath - Travel Demands Patience
Travel has always demanded patience, but even more so today. Frequent flight delays and cancellations, fewer upgrades, smaller seats,...

Don Owens
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A Life Built From Work
Focusing on your professional life, can lead to a full life in every aspect. There are many songs about refusing to grow up, but even...

Don Owens
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Plato Might Hold the Answer to Better Interviewing
There are great costs to an organization when you hire the wrong person in a leadership position. The loss is much more than dollars. I...

Don Owens
3 min read


“Make Your Bed – Little Things That Can Change Your Life and Maybe the World”
Navy Seals are some of the toughest dudes on the planet, and my friend Clint Woodward happens to be friends with one. He gave me the...

Don Owens
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45 Attributes of Growth
This year our organization celebrates 45 years in business. These are the attributes that made it possible for us to grow, exhibited in...

Don Owens
22 min read


30 Years of Adventure with Danae
"Marriage is an adventure, like going to war." - G.K. Chesterton Thirty years ago I was standing on Camp Bowie Boulevard in Fort Worth on...

Don Owens
3 min read


On Our Son's Graduation May 2017
I was overcome with joy when I learned Danae was carrying a son. The joy of knowing there may be a Donald Adair Owens IV to pass along...

Don Owens
3 min read


Lessons on Business from “Lycidas”
Three poets changed how I see the universe: Boethius, Dante and Milton. John Milton is acclaimed as the greatest poet in the English...

Don Owens
4 min read


A Life Changing Education – Our Reflections
Next month will end one journey for our family as our youngest will graduate high school. We were the crazy family that decided to home...

Don Owens
4 min read


Alone In The Dark
I couldn’t find the trail as I moved through the trees. There were several boulders in front of me and after an hour of following a...

Don Owens
4 min read


Virtue Without A Pedestal is Evil
Over the last few weeks my son and I have been reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. In part II of the book Franklin spends...

Don Owens
5 min read


Growing Older – A New Frontier
At 46 I am not considered old in the current culture, however, I am getting there quickly. Each year there are new and unique trials:...

Don Owens
3 min read