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Don't quote me... It could get you in trouble. Commentaries, original thoughts and conclusions about my experience - not yours. If you can relate, groovy. If you can't... groovy. I'm just talkin'.
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In today's world of email, social media, webinars, teleclasses, conference calls and really stupid gas prices, I rarely attend a face-to-face meeting. Having attended one recently, I've found that things haven't changed. People show up late. I've noticed it in the cyberworld too, but I guess seeing it again face-to-face just brought it back in full force as one of my pet peeves. Today, people have … [Read more...]
Abracadabra. Open sesame. Hocus-pocus. No matter what we believed as kids or how hard we try, these legendary magic words just don't work. They won't make anything appear or disappear - they won't open doors. In the fairy tales, myths and legends of our youth, words like these worked seemingly impossible miracles and often cleared the path through unforeseen dangers. But in today’s real, … [Read more...]
I am politically incorrect. Why? Because people tend to ask questions they really don't want to know your answer to. The politically correct thing to do on my part would be to blow smoke up their butts. Instead often to my own social and political detriment, I follow the advice I first heard from Mom - "If you don't really want to know, you'd better ask somebody else." So in light of my … [Read more...]
In my speaker coaching business I have a two-page document that spells out the rules of the road. It defines my professional relationship with the speaker, outlines our objectives, sets policy and assigns accountability. It’s brief but detailed, pretty serious and well thought out based on my experiences inside of coaching relationships. However, upon seeing it a number of speakers have … [Read more...]
When I was in my early teens, raising as much hell as I could without getting into SERIOUS trouble, my mom gave me a framed copy of the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling. I guess I really didn't think much of it, but I hung it on my bedroom wall in the basement anyway. At 17 I 'ran away' to the Air Force and left it hanging there on the wall, guarding the rest of my childhood stuff. Two … [Read more...]
You really can't quote me on this one because I didn't write it. However, I've had it memorized since junior high and it has served this optimist well. I never knew who the author was by until I looked it up recently. Now, in my head, it's a JEOPARDY! question... "I'll take LITTLE KNOWN POETS for $2,000, Alex." "His poem 'The Man Who Thinks He Can' appeared in a 1965 collection … [Read more...]
I am an eternal optimist. I see the glass as half full. I am always doing great. And it’s always a beautiful day… And I find that’s a bit much for some people. It’s especially annoying to those who like to complain, point out the negative, gossip, see the glass as half empty and are forever having a bad day. Recently, I felt the need to explain my sunny attitude to someone (who shall … [Read more...]
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