1. Sports is the Great Unifier: In a year filled with great debate, due to the election, which arguably is the one the most competitive, tactical sparing sports we will ever behold, I witnessed quite a few spirited discussions at the dinner table with friends who had opposing political views. Facebook news feeds were nasty, doused in cynical rhetoric to [...]

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 15,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report. A special thanks to all of you [...]

Last year I shared my holiday wish for all of us… This year I am making the same wish in a different way. As a reminder here is a portion of last year’s wish: My wish for you… My wish for us…is…that you’ll receive a clear unfiltered view of just a 1/4 of the potential you have to offer yourself, your loved [...]

This week I want to examine and appreciate normal. That’s right…I’m not going to try to inspire you to challenge yourselves, nor am I going to ask you to reach for new levels of self actualization and enlightenment. Not this time. Instead, I’m just going to ask you to appreciate and be grateful for your new normal. What is new [...]

Yesterday I had an enlightening interaction. Now this interaction wasn’t enlightening in the sense of walking away feeling more uplifted.  What I experienced was quite the opposite.  I walked away feeling exponentially worse than I felt just moments before the interaction took place. Here’s what happened… I received a phone number via text from a colleague that belonged to a [...]