A few years ago I had the privilege of listening to David Gergen (don’t recognize the name…google him) speak at a Leadership Summit in the Chicago area. I took a lot of great nuggets away from his talk…others of which I’ll probably share in the future, but one that really stuck out was as follows: Read More
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It’s time for a time check…
This past week I’ve struggled a bit with the fact that we all are entering the 6th month of 2012 so soon. The beginning of next month will place us at the half-way mark of this year. I don’t know about you…but for me…it seems the pace with which time is moving is unreasonably and Read More
The Illusions All Around Us
Chicago is hosting NATO.…and just like that, I along with many other Chicagoans found out just how little what we want or would like to have…really matters. In the end, we’re all treated like a potential protestor or threat. It’s very interesting how a privilege given, can so easily be a privilege taken away.…and the Read More
Upgrade U
What was the last item you had to upgrade? Chances are one of the applications on your smart phone needed upgrading recently or maybe even the phone itself. I can’t speak for you, but whenever I see that there’s an upgrade available for an application on my smart phone or the software on my laptop, I Read More
Do you REALLY know how to read?
Last week I had the opportunity to speak to a group of people about my purpose and the journey towards creating that purpose. To do this I shared a brief story: About 10 years ago a wonderful man and mentor of mine assigned me a book to read. After reading the book, I showed up 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
The Promise of Consistency
Have you ever seen something old, that you see everyday, for the very first time? This happened to me recently while headed to work. On this particular morning I hadn’t had a chance to eat or have my morning coffee, so as I sat at a stop light my eyes quite naturally landed on a 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
Don’t Ever Give Up!
This past Wednesday, after the normal workday hours, I moseyed out of my office to see if anyone else happened to be around and I ran into one of the gentleman on my team. We began sharing some small talk and while chatting with him I ventured into an adjacent work space to admire Read More
Where did the time go?
A complaint I hear often and have found myself saying is, “Where did the time go?” I’ve asked myself this question many times, upon looking at the clock after falling into the black hole of cyberspace, vegetating in front of the television for way to long or hanging up from a long phone call that was Read More