Sometimes I fail to listen to my own advice.   If you’ve read my blog or know me personally, you would know that I am a pretty positive, forward thinking, person.  I never let others see me rattled.  I always preach to do the right thing and constantly find a way to put a positive spin on any challenge. Sometimes, like anyone, I get caught up in the weight of the things around me.  I know I shouldn’t, but my mind (and sometimes my body) loads up on me and I feel the weight of the world applying pressure on my chest. The world does not apply this pressure…I do.   Sometimes life is a lot to take in.  Especially […]

To walk through life with your head down and hope and pray that you can just get by and continue to “make it through” just another day is a terrible way to waste a life.  Yet, every day that’s what many people do.  Keep their head down.  Pass on the opportunity to make a difference. Walk with no purpose. I often think that I am the only person who wants to get to work in the morning.  People who drive 45 in a 65, oblivious to the rest of the world and taking their sweet time to get to point A, drive me nuts.  I’m not talking about grandma with her blue hair in curlers, I’m talking about the people […]

Long ago I stopped arguing with idiots. Seriously, it’s not good for your health.  The stress of continuing a conversation with someone, who you will never convince they are wrong, could send you to an early grave- or make you pull your hair out.  I’m flexible, open minded and don’t always have to be right.  As a matter of fact, for the sake of the impending argument, I often want to be wrong.  I have friends who like to exchange with idiots.  Almost like they have this strange need to make sure that they (the idiots) know that they are wrong.  Why?  Why would you waste energy on these people?  Perhaps this comes from a place where they need the […]

St. Jude was the patron saint of lost causes.  I know these things because I grew up Catholic and my parents were Beatles fans.  In life, we all have a soft spot for the underdog or the person who just can’t get it together and we enable them by constantly dragging them, kicking and screaming, into success.  But do they ever really become successful? Often, we want it for them more than they want it for themselves.  Like everyone else, I’ve made this mistake with these people in my life.  You see potential or maybe just pity them and if you could just spend a little more time with them- you know you can turn them around.  More often than […]

When the larger companies have to cut costs and eliminate their bench, the smaller companies become the farm system for those larger companies.  Investing in talent and people is imperative to being successful in business.  It’s equally important to run the company effectively and profitable.  Often times these things do not go hand in hand.  Smaller companies need to invest in ways of building and keeping their key people.  Almost as if they are making an offering to the radio gods, they hand over their big prospects only to have to start over again and hope they can get a little more time out of the replacement.  This is life. Yet, if they perhaps tried a little harder to maintain […]

While flying to Boston to watch my best friend Geoff get married, I sat next to a kid named Taylor during the first leg of the trip.  Taylor is a 4th grade student heading into 5th when his summer comes to an end.  Taylor has no idea what he inspired.  About 45 minutes into the 2 hour leg to Atlanta, curiosity got the best of him as he repeatedly looked over at my tray and read the words that I was typing on my iPad.  He asked me what it was that I was writing about.  Those who know me, know that my brain doesn’t shut off very often and I don’t do well with “me time”.  I was, of […]

“I have 20 years of experience”. “I am a seasoned vet”. “I’ve been around the block and I know what I am doing”.  All things that people might think are helping them get the employers attention are actually the things that are preventing you from getting the job.  20 years of experience might mean you are un-teachable, bull headed, set in your ways.  It could also mean you have been doing this job wrong for 20 years. Experience is great.  People want to hire smart successful people who can act like they have been there.  I have seen both sides of experience. I have been blessed to work with seasoned vets who know how to take it to the next […]

In the history of college baseball, only 2 coaches have won the college world series with 2 different teams. This past week Coach Andy Lopez from Arizona became the 2nd coach to do it! (His first with Pepperdine in 1992…I was rooting for the Gamecocks!).  Switching sports, you cannot deny that Peyton Manning is a stud QB.  A Stud QB with one Super Bowl ring in 14 seasons (not counting last season since he didn’t play).  As everyone knows, due to the media frenzy behind it, Peyton will start this season for a new football team-The Denver Broncos. What you may not know is that only 4 QBs in the history of professional football have won a Super Bowl with […]

Often people sit back and steal cool pictures and cards from other Facebook pages or blogs.  Sure, that’s easy.  Sitting behind your computer screen, sipping on some caffeinated beverage, just waiting for the latest spoof, in viral card form, of the Carly Rae Jepsen song “Call me maybe”; isn’t going to create content that will truly endear you to the audience.  You need to capture life.  Stop waiting to catch cool and go out and create it. Yesterday I was at a gas station and next to my car was a group of girls and moms in a SUV.  It was all pimped out in 1 Direction decorations (1 Direction is a British boy band that was playing in Houston […]

This morning I was cut off in traffic by a guy driving a company truck for a pest control service.  I won’t say who, because it’s not relevant and God forbid they, or someone they know, actually read my blog.  He was driving like an idiot and I wasn’t the only person he cut off in the short time I watched him.  I’m sure there wasn’t a big pest emergency that he had to get to (END OF DAYS! LOCUSTS!!).  The guy drove like a jerk and one would assume he is a jerk in real life.  Needless to say, I won’t be using that company for my pest control needs.  Why?  Because he represents that company and my first […]