What a great time to be alive! So much innovation, so much change and so many technologies that let us stay closer than ever to the people we love. How have you shared your love today? Did you Skype, Facebook, tweet, blog, text, iMessage, SMS, or YouTube your sentiment? What’s awesome is the new dialect Read More
Inspired?
I have two questions. How do you get inspired? How do you stay inspired? Do you know? If so share it with me. (Leave a comment…I can never know enough about receiving inspiration.) If you don’t know, have you thought about the implications that a lack of inspiration can have on your will to get things Read More
A tear for Whitney…
When the movie “Bodyguard” dropped in 1992, I was 16 years old. At 16 a boy is open game for infatuation and Whitney had me! I was in LOVE! She didn’t only have me…she also had my brother who was 15 years old at the time…and as you probably can imagine many an argument was Read More
The reason we all should care…
In today’s very connected world, great service is more important than ever. It’s crucial to our livelihoods and the organizations we have the opportunity to represent. I say this because I’m about to send this note to American Airlines due to the very poor service I’m receiving at this moment 30,000 feet in the air Read More
Capable and average, is capable of more than average!
All too often I’m baffled at how we place people who are categorized as successful, in an untouchable category. It is as if the stories of their achievements closely mirror the heroics of Greek Mythology, and our own lives mirror that of a Greek tragedy. We tend to forget that the people we look Read More
Be present for your own parade!
Some of us are always thinking ahead, calculating our next moves and agonizing over the details of our strategic plan. Then we carefully begin to execute on the critical success factors of the master plan we’ve designed. …and that’s great! But sometimes we are so given to executing with excellence, that this plan is all Read More
Control Your Mind, Control Your World
Recently a friend of mine was scanning through the music on my iPhone. As he perused my music he came across my ‘Morning’ playlist. After reviewing the songs in this playlist he asked, “Why do you have a ‘Morning’ playlist?”I smiled and responded, “Let’s listen to a few of the songs then you tell me.”He Read More
3 Inspirational Lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King has been a source of inspiration for me, since I was a child. It was Dr. King (by way of my elementary school teachers) who first introduced me to the idea of dreaming and standing steadfast in a dream. To honor Dr. King, on the day that has been set aside to celebrate his Read More
Who are you? What is your brand?
Sometimes it’s tough to make personal change… Regardless of the long-term payoff for short-term work many of us just can’t seem to tighten the hatch, hunker down and go to work on what will create the change that helps us reach our long-term goals and aspirations. Why is that? I can’t answer that for you…I Read More
2019 – New Beginnings
Here we are…2019! Another year has started and it’s hard to believe that 2018 has come and gone so quickly. The start of a new year is exhilarating because it presents new possibilities. For at least a week most of us believe wholeheartedly in ourselves and our ability to seize new opportunity. A new year Read More