Soul Setting and Role Setting Before Goal Setting
The NEW Game of Success™… Do Your Soul Setting and Role Setting Before Your Goal Setting Happy New Year! Here’s to a fine 2009! Stress costs America’s businesses $300 million every year. These “Big 3″ stress factors are deadly silent killers: Soul frustration – “There’s a hole in my soul.” Role frustration – “I’m not [...]
Three Birthday Gifts for You, a Big One for Me
Below find three birthday gifts from me to you?. On December 2, 1988 I got my best birthday gift ever: My son Adam was born. This is the 20th birthday we are blessed to share. When it comes to birthday gifts, I need nothing. I have everything and everyone that matters to me. This year, [...]
Dharma, Karma and Grace
Dharma, Karma and Grace is not a heavy metal band. They are a rockin’ trio, though. Dharma is your essential character, your own nature. WHO YOU ARE. Who you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say. Karma is a cosmic principle that you reap what you sow according to your deeds, what [...]
The High Cost of NO Trust
For 30 years, I have used this three-step formula to be the service provider of choice: 1 – Add (real) value in advance 2 – Become the trusted advisor 3 – Provide the adequate solution People can’t take “perceived” value to the bank. They won’t stay in a long-term relationship absent trust. Nobody knows what [...]
Are You Choosing the Evil of Two Lessers?
“With a place to stand I can move the Earth.” Archimedes On November 2, 2004 before leaving my house to vote, I wrote this Blog post to express my feelings about the choice for president… “The Evil of Two Lessers!” “The Evil of Two Lessers” is a rigged, LOSE-LOSE game. Even if you win, you [...]
A “Positively Deviant” Day with Bucky and Marshall
Marshall Thurber has the unique distinction of being a protégé of Buckminster Fuller and W. Edwards Deming. On Saturday, August 16 I joined Marshall and a few dozen “positive deviants” to tour the Buckminster Fuller exhibit at the Whitney Museum in NYC. Before the museum opened, we gathered like a dance troupe on the sidewalk [...]
What Are YOU Waiting For?
I never bought into the mantra, “When it’s your time, it’s your time.” Today, I am a hard core convert. Call me a true believer. On Thursday August 14, what would have been my Dad’s 90th birthday, Charles Nystrom – the Weapon System Officer who flew the F-111E during the Persian Gulf War and made [...]
Dr. Robert Cialdini Shares Influence Wisdom
Dr. Robert Cialdini is his name. Persuasion is his game. He’s in the social influence Hall of Fame. In this rare conversation, Dr. Cialdini reveals “Three Lost Distinctions” from his game changing work on Influence, and a dozen different ways to be more persuasive and influence with integrity from his must-have new book, YES! 50 [...]
Play Your Best, Build An All Star Team
In today’s Play the NEW Game™ we discussed how to: * Play YOUR best position. * Surround yourself with an all-star team! * Play for the love of the game. We talked baseball, business and life. Listen now: Or download today’s conversation here: Here are the resources we mentioned about playing your best game and [...]
Baseball, Business and Life!
GAME POSTPONED DUE TO RAIN. Rescheduled for Tuesday, April 1. Today is the final opening day at Yankee Stadium. Next year, the New York Yankees open a new ballpark. Yankee Stadium is a one of a kind sports venue. You walk from the crowded urban Bronx streets into a lush, green field of dreams. It’s [...]