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Walk on By
Exactly two weeks from today is the release of my third book, The Gift of Influence. For a lot of my peers on the speaker’s circuit, writing three books in a dozen years isn’t that impressive. Some of them can pump out a book per year like clockwork. But it takes...
Signs
Have you ever heard the story about the man who lived by the river? It’s a parable about a devout Christian man who refused to evacuate his home after hearing a radio broadcast warning of an impending flood. “I’m a good Christian,” he told himself. “God will save me.”...
Sixth Floor Relationships
Anyone who’s read my books or seen my speeches knows that I was not a good student in high school; I went to summer school more times than I care to admit. As I limped to the finish line my senior year, I found myself at a crossroads. No major universities would...
Ring Hand
When my children Caroline and Tate were growing up, we would hold hands everywhere we went. As soon as we got out of the car, they would race to see who could grab my left hand first. “I got the ring hand!”the winner would boast. They loved feeling my wedding...
I Told You So
Last week I traveled with my family to Germany for an incredibly special trip. In the Bavarian town of Oberammergau, we saw the Passion Play, which has been staged there every ten years since 1634. We paid our respects at Dachau Concentration Camp, where the Nazis...
Commitments
Twelve years ago, I was talking with my mother about her bucket list. She said she had been blessed to travel to Europe and other exotic places, but there was one thing she still wanted to do above everything else. “Have you heard of the Passion Play?” she asked me. I...
Secret Sauce
Coca Cola was invented by an Atlanta pharmacist way back in 1886. Even now, over 130 years later, the recipe remains a secret. The only written copy is kept in a vault deep inside Coke’s headquarters in Atlanta. Dr. Pepper, meanwhile, split its secret “23 flavors”...
High Road
Last week I got a call from a young man named Jeff. I’ve known and mentored him for many years as he rose the ranks to become second in command of a major tech company on the West Coast. But when I picked up the phone, I could tell that Jeff was in distress. “What’s...
You’ve Changed My Life
Like billions around the globe, I found out last Friday that Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, had been assassinated. Many regarded him as the most transformative leader in Japan since World War II, striving to restore his country’s technological edge...
Heartprints
This past week, my wife, Jill, and I took a vacation with our longtime friends Lisa and Byron Haselden. We travel every year together, and this time we had the honor of staying at Blackberry Farm, located about thirty miles south of Knoxville, Tennessee. Situated on...
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