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Set New Records This Year

Set New Records This Year

For years, I’ve known that Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-minute mile and that, after this historic accomplishment, other runners soon broke his record in large part because Roger proved it was possible.  What an incredible story right?  I love this...
Making Peace with Hope

Making Peace with Hope

Ironically this holiday season, I’ve been thinking a bit about a time in my life when I lost all sense of celebration.  In seventh grade, I attempted to take my own life.   My hard times had begun some years earlier, during the summer following fifth...
Fact AND Fiction

Fact AND Fiction

My reflexes and response time are slower because of a birth injury.  This is a fact.  Because of it, I generalized that because I have slower reflexes I would therefore, always be inefficient at work.   Yes, there is some truth within my...
What the Heck is Imperfect Best?

What the Heck is Imperfect Best?

In many of my presentations I define the concept of Imperfect Best as follows: “Even when we try our best, mistakes and imperfections will happen.  When we do our ‘imperfect best,’ we accept these mistakes as part of the process, learning from them and leveraging...
Truly Yours

Truly Yours

Jason, I want to take you back a great many years.  You once were an adorable little kid.  Self-criticism hadn’t fogged up the radiant sunrise of your life yet.  You rehearsed being joyfully yourself over and over again as you ran around, shoestrings...