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I Choose To Be Me: A 10-year old boy’s heart-felt Christmas Message

A couple of years ago, around Christmas time my wife and I were listening to the John Tesh radio show. With its mix of music and relevant talk, the show’s savvy slogan is “music and intelligence for your life.” On this particular day a great narrator brought a brilliant story to life that even the [...]

We Shall Not Forget

A great video remembering those who sacrificed everything and paid the ultimate price to give us the opportunity to live the ultimate life. Thank You! We Shall Not Forget.

Keeping it Real with Obama, Clinton and George

A couple of hours ago I had the pleasure of spending time in CBC studio 43 watching a live taping of The Hour hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos with a good friend of mine. His guests included Taylor Branch author of The Clinton Tapes, David Jacobson US ambassador to Canada and Battle of the Blades team Tie [...]

Tiger Woods or Hank Haney, Who’s your Coach?

There is a theory that a great coach is one that has been there, done that and still doing it. On the surface it may seem that the best coaches are the ones whose credentials say that they eat their own cooking and drink their own cool aid or at least did at one time. [...]

My Eleven: The Core Values that Guide Me

In the last post we talked about why Zappos was so successful and why Amazon would be willing to pay over $900 million dollars for them. I also asked you about what values you use to govern your life both in business and personal life. In return here are My Eleven,The Core Values that Guide [...]

Zappos to Amazon: Core Values worth $900 Million

For those of you who don’t know Tony Hsieh, (pronounced Shay) he is the CEO of Zappos.com that recently just got bought out by Amazon for a whopping $900 million. So why would Amazon pay that much for what seems like just another online retail company – especially in what seems an economy on the [...]

Are You Inspiring Excellence?

Enjoy the  post below courtesy of Author: Donna Williams. It has great insights to leadership and 7 powerful tips to inspiring excellence. Of all the millions of decisions we make in our lifetimes, one of the most important ones has to be the decision to commit to excellence. When you commit yourself to striving for [...]

Doubting Fear & Failure

I was intrigued by Andrew Waitman’s Money Talks column. In it he talks about a disease that inhibits growth of people in our society. A disease that does not kill the host but rather “actively works to infect all who come in contact with the host.” He says the disease works by “corroding the fabric [...]

Often Immitated Never Duplicated: Why There Will Never Be Another

When Bernie Pitzel was brought back in as Gatorade’s creative chief to introduce Michael Jordan and Gatorade to the world, he instantly found out that the first commercials had already been approved. One played off the true story of a kid in Yugoslavia who wrote a letter addressed to “Michael Jordan. USA.” and it actually [...]

New Relationships: Get that $#%* Out of Here

A couple of days ago I was sitting in the Millionaire Speaker Secrets event in Las Vegas when the host James Malinchak was recalling a story about playing in a college basketball game for the visiting team, the Cincinnati Bearcats, against the Louisville Cardinals. He got called into the game and immediately had an impact, [...]