Inspiration
Do you have some knowledge you learned the hard way? Sure you do. We all do. Here’s the trickier question: When you deliver that knowledge to clients, do you share your “learned-the-hard-way story?” A while back, I reviewed a client video in which she shared a bit of knowledge and added, “I learned that the…
My daughter, Maddie, lives in Philadelphia, walking distance from Independence Hall. That’s the place where Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock and other members of The Second Continental Congress gathered to debate, adopt, and eventually sign The Declaration of Independence. They gathered there 250 years ago. You can still visit the room where…
Today’s the day (in 1997) when Paul McCartney became a knight. Now we’re supposed to call him “Sir Paul.” Call me blasphemous, but Sir Paul bugs me. It’s that story about dreaming “Yesterday” that gets my goat. In his biography Many Years from Now (published just a few months after he became a knight), Sir…
On this day (Dec. 30) in 1999, a mad man broke into George Harrison’s house and nearly killed him. The attacker stabbed the former Beatle more than 30 times. If not for his wife, Olivia, joining the fight, George probably would have died. Gruesome, terrible, serious business… …and soon after, George was cracking jokes. After…
I’ve discovered my spirit animal… …thanks to my daughter Maddie who’s in Africa this week on safari. She’s been sending photos and videos of creatures great and small. Elephants. Giraffes. Cheetahs. Rhinos. Impalas. Impressive animals. But they’re just not ME. And then Maddie sent this… That is a pair of beetles with a tennis-ball-sized dung…
Ripped from the headlines in Nevada: In girls high school basketball action last week, The Del Sol High School Dragons squeaked by the Cheyenne High School Desert Pigs (yes, the “Desert Pigs”). The final score 104-1. Reminds me of the time I coached the 8th-grade boys basketball team at the secondary school where I taught…
I’m sitting on the terrace at the Ritz-Carlton TiburĂłn in Naples, Florida, sipping fresh-squeezed orange juice and getting ready for day two of the two-day “Elite Mastermind” with Dave Dee. Our group meets with Dave every Monday morning for one hour on Zoom. Every quarter, we have two-day retreats — two times on Zoom, two…
I woke this morning in a house that isn’t mine. A rental house. The place we’ve been staying since May… …when an EF3 tornado (160 mph winds) ripped the roof of our house and leveled our yard. It’s been a rough year. We fired the first contractor. We’re waiting on the second to begin repairs.…
A long, long time ago, the great orator Daniel Webster served as auctioneer for the sale of a New Hampshire farm. Here’s Webster’s pitch: “Neighbors, we’re not auctioning Tom Brown’s good milk cows… or 80 acres of fine land… or a sturdy home that’s seen 20 winters. “No. I’m offering you the chance of biting…
A few years ago, I went fishing with my son, Jake. He caught 37 trout. I caught two. When I asked him how he did it, he said, “I put my fly on the water.” While I spend too much time analyzing the water, determining which insects are buzzing, flipping through a box for just…