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 […]
Have you noticed how we have so much and yet, so little? So much spin, so little truth. So much talk, so little listening. So much conversation, so little understanding. So much fluff, so little substance. So much hype, so little trust. So much information, so little insight. So much knowledge, so little wisdom. So […]
Today I suspend my personal work to play a bigger game. It’s a day to mourn and reflect. I mourn the mothers, fathers and children killed, maimed and displaced since March 19, 2003. I reflect on the “don’t go to war” essay I published on the eve of the Iraq invasion. I got hate mail, […]
LOVE, SERVE, OBEY™… NEW Rules for the NEW Game of Business, Money and Life! This NEW Value’s Hierarchy is transforming the game. In this provocative conversation, we talked about how to align with the highest values, live spiritually and elevate the game by being a conscious business person. It’s among the most important conversations we’ve […]
It’s mind boggling to think 40 years have passed. I was a happy, optimistic, idealistic freshman starting high school the year Martin Luther King,, Jr. was killed. His beautiful words inspired me to write. His pulse pounding tone, heart racing pace, and poetic prose inspired me to speak. Although I never met him, he helped […]
When the taxi came this past Monday, I had no clue my 30-minute ride to the airport would impact me forever. I enjoy talking to taxi drivers, but I had no idea this guy was going to bring me to tears. Azeem is from Afghanistan. He came to America 11 years ago. I asked him […]
Republished from September 3, 2001 Make Your Work a Labor of Love… Love What You Do, Until You Do What You Love! Every Labor Day, I think about and reflect on my labor for the year; what I’m doing, how I’m doing it, who I’m doing it with, and why I do it at all. […]
On December 27, 1995 I started a book called “The Power of Threes.” Five years later on 01/01/01 I finally wrote an Introduction and assembled the 33 chapters into a Table of Contents. Nine months later 9/11 rocked the world. It forever changed life as we know it. I never wrote the book. Today, I […]
Reprinted as Originally published March 21, 2004 Today, I’d like to talk about a different game. It’s a game none of us look forward to, yet each one of us will play one day: The end game. We face this finality with our Mom, Ann Axelrod. Today, my brother and I fly to Fort Lauderdale […]
For the past few months, I have been running silent and deep, doing a lot of “NO-Box” thinking, and playing… Reframe the Game™! I encourage you to take some time to run silent and deep. I encourage you to embrace ‘NO Box’ thinking. I encourage you reframe the game. I encourage you to start TODAY! […]
