SPEAKER | AUTHOR | TRANSFORMATION STRATEGIST
…it can feel really foreign to you. Most if not all team sports have positions and usually the combination of size, strength, speed and skill set determine which one you play. In college I played a position commonly known as the Power Forward or “The Four”. I was undersized for the position as I am …
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Category: Character
Is there a fine line between teaching a lesson and walking away from unnecessary conflict? One of the most pervasive character flaws in Southern California society has to be selfishness. Consider its common forms of cutting in line at amusement parks, cutting off people on the freeways, saving 10 seats at the movies for friends …
I was alarmed at the number of kids ages 13-15 who had already decided to accept the label “STUPID”.
Category: Character
I lack tenacity but I’m aware of it now. What is this quality we use to define the most determined people? It’s like the relentlessness, the fortitude, the rapacious resolve to complete that operates outside of logic and common sense. People used to say I didn’t have common sense but actually I may have had …
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Category: Character
Contrary to what I think is popular belief, most people love past glory. One contemporary maxim goes, “The older I get, the better I was” and it evokes courtesy laughter from most audiences when stated. Letting go of past success is the topic today and all topics are neutral until you start running your mouth …
Continue reading “The Laurels that haunt us”
Category: Character
How does it feel to know you’ve waited your whole life to be who you are right now? (Take time to consider who you are before you answer.)
Category: Character
Am I the only one who went to college and majored in English only to hear, “Son, you know English doesn’t pay well”? When I chose English/Print Journalism as a major during my Sophomore year of undergraduate study it was because I didn’t think I was good in anything else. English was the closest thing …
