Someone once asked Wayne Gretzky what made him such a good hockey player and he said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been”. I like that quote because it speaks about making good decisions and being intentional rather than being reactionary. That has been a hard lesson for me to learn. For most of my life, I have lived in a reactionary mode. When people would come to me with a request or a demand, I would often drop everything and do what they wanted me to do. If someone was upset about something, I felt pressured to try to solve their problem, or at...