How well are you protecting your personal well being?
Perhaps you saw “Jaws”, I didn’t but here’s the story line. What subtle life messages do you hear in it?
Martin Brody is the police chief of Amity, an island resort town somewhere in New England. One summer morning, Brody is called to the beach, where the mangled body of a summer vacationer has washed ashore. The medical…
How are you accelerating your personal success?
The Next Level Journey is about finding a path to maintain your personal success. This article completes a 3-part series answering this important question: how do you accelerate success when the pace of life does not support the personal development?
There’s no question about it, most of us are living a frantic lifestyle.
There is price to be paid for this pace. It…
How well are you connecting with life?
Room 224 of St. Francis Hospital is right across from the nurse’s station. The door was open so I went in; however, I did not recognize the patient.
No one was in the room; the patient’s name was not posted on the white board with the other erasable bits of information. So, I stepped across the hall to check with the nurse to…
How does taking responsibility lead to success?
In the current Harvard Business Review interview Howard Schultz of Starbucks fame spoke of his return as CEO. The article “We Had to Own the Mistakes” by Adi Ignatius begins:
By the time Howard Schultz stepped down as chief executive of Starbucks, in 2000, the coffee chain was one of the world’s most recognizable brands—and on a steady trajectory of growth. Eight…
How do you stop making assumptions about others?
Last week, I was in Cincinnati for the annual Sherpa Coaching Conference as part of my re-certification. The group was large enough and the schedule full enough that it was impossible to connect with everyone. I only knew a few people.
After the conference, I grabbed a bite to eat at the airport with a coaching friend from Dallas. As we finished…
How can being ethical be kept simple? What’s the secret?
Randy was an account executive I hired when serving as GSM of the top-billing radio station in Oklahoma City. Over the years, we kept in touch after I moved to another market and radio group. Our re-connecting recently increased.
One particular day, he was re-telling the story of his start in radio (I hired him). When he referenced one of my “sayings”. It’s simple. It speaks…
Who do you owe a debt of gratitude?
There really are no “self-made” men or women. That’s an illusion at best and self-deception at worst.
As a nation we celebrated “Memorial Day” yesterday…Wikipedia helps us remember the origin and why of the day.
Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known…
