42 things that MOTIVATE and INSPIRE me on my 42nd birthday!

  I am often asked about the process I use to choose topics for my blog and each week’s radio show. My answer has always been the same; I just look for the inspiring and teachable point of view in everything I’m given the opportunity to experience and see. This week’s thought is a quick Read More

Top 3 Reasons I Love To Travel

There are so many reasons I love to travel the world, and of these reasons here are my top 3. 1. Travel enhances and broadens your perspective on life. 2. Travel teaches you far more than you could ever learn in a classroom. 3. Travel connects you to amazing people who you otherwise would have Read More

Where’s Your Focus?

  Where’s your focus? If you get to the unfiltered answer for this question, it will teach you a lot about yourself. We all choose to focus on different things and it’s what we focus on that predicts what we’ll do, how we’ll do it and ultimately where we’ll go in life. So where’s your Read More

7 Ways The World Is At Your Fingertips. Now What?

  It’s 2015 and we are only fourteen years into the 21st Century. We are alive and well in a new era that brings with it so much opportunity. We are all pioneers at the forefront of a technological frontier and the possibilities are endless. Yet, so many of us are stuck, in this new era, living Read More

I don’t do airplanes!

A number of years ago I asked a member of my team to make travel plans to visit a facility in another city. Almost instantaneous she became distraught. “I don’t do airplanes!”, she exclaimed. “I don’t like them!” After a brief conversation I learned that she had never been aboard a plane, nor had she Read More

Linal Harris blog interview on WVON 1690 AM PWithers Experience

This past Sunday evening I had the privilege of being interviewed on WVON 1690 AM – Talk of Chicago Radio, on the PWither Experience Show. I have provided a link to the recording of the show below for your listening pleasure and convenience.  Please check the interview out and let me know what you think. Read More

The Walking Stick

  The past few weeks I’ve been away on vacation.  I’ve spent my time away exploring parts of the Southern Hemisphere which for a portion of my travels took me to the jungles of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea. While in Kimbe, I joined a group of fellow explorers on a hike through the jungle and Read More

It takes a village…

Life is a gift. …and to enhance this gift are all the wonderful people around us who share this gift. It is my belief that  opening ourselves to the combination of life and the people we encounter in this life is the key to fulfillment. Let me explain… Yesterday I crossed off a goal on Read More

What are you waiting for?

  What’s that one thing that you just need to happen?….and if it happens…all the doors will just swing wide open! How long have you been waiting for this one thing? All of us tend to have that thing, that excuse…that reason…why we can’t do something great…something risky…something we’re passionate about…something that will make us Read More

Turbulence

Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to travel quite a bit for both work and pleasure. On average I’ve logged close to 100,000 miles in the air every year. Now I shared that because having flown as much as I have, it is very easy to take the miracle of flying for granted. When Read More