April 16th, 2008 at 9:38 pm » Comments (27)

One of the reasons why I blog here at Adversity University is to turn my own personal experiences into solutions for you and make new connections along the way. ...more »

March 8th, 2008 at 9:41 pm » Comments (39)

I was living in Michigan at the time.  It was a rainy Saturday afternoon with dark, angry clouds that seemed to cast a spell of gloom and doom.  (Photo:  Catchphrase X) I had ...more »

February 25th, 2008 at 5:00 pm » Comments (16)

A fellow blogger, Alex Shalman, is conducting a "Happiness Project" over at his blog and he's opened this up to anyone who wants to participate. I've always thought "happiness" was ...more »

January 17th, 2008 at 8:00 pm » Comments (35)

About a year ago, I had my speaking website overhauled by a local designer. A month or two after the site went live, a couple of gigs came through, ...more »

January 1st, 2008 at 12:48 pm » Comments (32)

My mind is swirling this morning with so many thoughts as we begin the first day of 2008.  Some of them were posted yesterday along with a small exercise that I ...more »

December 10th, 2007 at 11:46 am » Comments (44)

Have you ever experienced a strong feeling about someone you just met?  Perhaps you knew you could trust this person but couldn't figure out why?  Did anyone tell you "trust ...more »

December 2nd, 2007 at 10:56 pm » Comments (42)

To start off this week, I thought it would be fun to share behind the scenes look at what it has been like to do something for a living that ...more »

November 27th, 2007 at 1:49 pm » Comments (32)

We all know how each snowflake is different from the billions of others that fall to the ground.   The same can be said for your fingerprints.  Imagine the vastness of ...more »

November 26th, 2007 at 1:47 pm » Comments (31)

Today's post is my submission to a group writing project at Litemind.  Everybody says, "Someday we'll laugh about this."  I figure, why wait?   No Mistakes, only lessons:  Life is a series ...more »

November 18th, 2007 at 11:53 pm » Comments (12)

Destiny is what I believe in. Winston Churchill once said when he was a boy, he told his childhood friend that he would one day save the British Empire from falling ...more »

November 13th, 2007 at 11:08 am » Comments (7)

Sorting through my ancient filing cabinet the other day gave me some ideas for today's post.  Back in 1999, I did a keynote presentation for UNUM/Provident, an insurance company based ...more »

November 5th, 2007 at 6:31 pm » Comments (16)

Last Friday night (11/2/07), a something extraordinary happened, briefly mentioned in a post the following day:        ...........I suddenly felt a strange compulsion to walk over to the bookcase...retrieve two green booklets on ...more »

October 22nd, 2007 at 7:01 pm » Comments (8)

One of my new goals has been to create a mastermind group for the purpose of creating business and personal relationships with like-minded individuals.  According to classic books like "Think ...more »

October 11th, 2007 at 10:52 am » Comments (21)

If you're like most people, you've moved at least once in your life.  Perhaps you went from the house you grew up in to a college dormitory or from an ...more »

September 19th, 2007 at 2:39 pm » Comments (8)

The Abraham-Hicks book, Ask and It is Given, inspired me to write today's post. One of the greatest things we can do for ourselves is to ask for something we ...more »