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Tuesdays With Tommy
Two Friends
I went to high school back in Suffern, New York, thirty-three years ago, with two friends. Two friends with very different lives. Two friends with vastly different life experiences. One friend was confident and the other was not. One friend built a three-page resume...
Words
My eleven-year old son had a hockey tournament in Los Angeles last weekend. For the first time in his seven-year hockey career, Tate had an injury during one of his games.Collided into another player. Went down hard. Came off the ice crying. He was in excruciating...
Six Words
Back in 2008 I submitted my first book proposal to my, now, publisher. They rejected it. The title of my first book proposal was called, The Give Get Principle. I wanted to teach readers that there are two types of people...givers and getters. And there is a choice....
Ham & Eggs
Warning...after reading this BLOG you will never be able to look at (or eat) ham and eggs the same way ever again. I heard an amazing speaker this weekend at my sons' hockey camp. Lou Vairo was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1945. He has directed national and...
Four Magic Ingredients
I've used the same driver that takes me to and from the Denver International Airport for years. Paulos is from Ethiopia. And so are all the other drivers on Paulos' team. A couple hundred trips to and from the Denver International Airport each year...I've had the...
Knife Wounds
I took my thirteen-year old daughter on a date night last week to my favorite steak joint in town. Just Caroline and me. I cherish these times with my daughter. At her age, one minute I'm "Super Man" and the following minute she's "super embarrassed to be seen in...
Start of a Friendship
There are over 15,000 professional speakers that are registered with the National Speakers Association. That's a lot of speakers. When I got in the business ten years ago, my mentor, Ken Blanchard encouraged me to find ways to separate myself from the other 14,999. He...
80,000 People
Last month at our 18th annual National Leadership Academy Book-n-Benefit business breakfast our keynote speaker, Jon Gordon, made a comment that I can't shake out of my head. In fact, I don't think I'll ever forget it. His comment is etched in my brain. Tattooed on my...
Dream Killer
Growing up my mother was adamant that we didn't have electronics in our home. There was no internet, smart phones or tablets when I was a kid, but there was Pac-Man, Donkey-Kong and Asteroids. And my mother did all she could to make sure there was never Atari,...