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By Greg Fullerton
Hyrum Smith was my first and most influential mentor.
One time I was visiting him at his house and his mother Ruth was there. Ruth was 60 years old at the time.
Talking to her friend, she said, “You know, I think I’m going to go back to the university and get my second degree.”
Her [...]

By Carl Woolston
I once went hiking with a group of guys on a trail that led to a great waterfall.
We’d heard that as you got to the waterfall, in order to see it up close, you had to do a steep climb down to the river in the canyon. We were planning for that and [...]

By Greg Fullerton
On June 25th, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, thus starting the Korean War.
In 1951, the United States issued a call for volunteers. My father lived in southern Utah at the time. He, along with about 600 men in the 213th Field Artillery Battalion, signed up.
They all knew each other in their communities. [...]

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”  -Pericles
What are your thoughts on the quote? We invite you to share with the community by commenting below.

By Greg Fullerton
My daughter was dying.
I watched her as she lay in an incubator, covered in wires and gadgets.
The constant “beep, beep” was a sinister reminder that her life depended on machines.
Suddenly, an alarm went off. Nurses scrambled in.
Carly’s oxygen saturation level had dropped. They quickly put her on a respirator.
Her oxygen [...]

Some people do much more with less than those who have everything.
How can we use what we already have to do phenomenal things? Watch this video to find out:

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Everyone knows about Paul Revere and his “midnight run” to warn American colonists that the British were coming.
But have you ever heard of Sybil Ludington?
In The Real History of the American Revolution, historian Alan Axelrod shares the following story:

“Paul Revere was not the Revolution’s only rider of note.
“Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington lived in the small [...]

Each day brings you closer to death. And when your end comes, what will you have to show for your toils?
Watch this video to remember never to waste a precious moment:

In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the poet Virgil guides Dante to the gates of Hell.
There they encounter the “Drearies,” a group of lost souls who, as Dante writes, “lived without blame or praise.”
Author Thomas Cahill calls them:
“Whining wraiths who never truly lived at all, the lukewarm, who are ‘as hateful to God as to his enemies,’ [...]

By Bob Kaelin
Years ago I worked for a man who, at the time, was the richest man in the state of Utah. I ran one of his companies and we became close.
I quickly learned that his whole goal in life was to make more money.
When I first started working for him, another Utah man was [...]