Practice what you preach; do as you say, walk the talk, and actions speak louder than words are all derivatives of what I believe are the three most important words in your life…Behavior Never Lies! Let me make this one real simple for you…What you DO is who you are. If there’s ever a discrepancy […]
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Useful or Useless: Which are You?
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make a difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson We are living links in a chain of wisdom, handed down through history. One axiom developed in that […]
The Magic Question That Makes the Impossible Possible
Everything Counts! is an execution strategy for inspiring excellence and driving exceptional results. It offers a profoundly important message for running a great business and for enjoying a …continues
How You Do Anything…Is How You Do Everything
Let’s cut right to the chase, you make hundreds of decisions every day. Some matter more than others. But committing to excellence is one of the most important decisions you will ever make in terms of your life’s success. Excellence is a quality, a standard, and it will become the expected norm once you embrace […]
You’re Biased…and Here’s Why It’s a Good Thing
It’s about time somebody said it… Everyone is biased. You’re biased, I’m biased and the person to your left and right are biased as well. Few people openly admit to being biased…but not me. I’m proud, happy and make my living sharing my bias with the world. To be biased is to be in favor […]
Most Unwanted List
Introduced on March 14, 1950…the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List was the brainchild of then FBI Director, J Edgar Hoover. The goal was simple…in hopes that publicity and public awareness would lead to arrests, the FBI listed the names of ten fugitives it considered to be the most potentially dangerous…the ones whose criminal behavior […]
A Love Letter to the Exclamation Mark!
“Just as a kiss can be a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point…so too can a handshake, an email, a text message and even a voicemail!” – Gary Ryan Blair WHEREVER WE ARE…whatever we’re doing and wherever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do […]
Do Not Pass Go. Do Not Collect $200
GO TO JAIL. GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL. DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT $200. If you’ve ever played the game Monopoly…you’ve no doubt heard the phrase…and received one of those yellow Community Chest or orange Chance cards. This phase has become widely used in popular culture to describe an action forced upon a person […]
Average Is Over
I have a secret to tell you. You can achieve practically any of your wildest dreams. It really doesn’t matter how big. Suspicious? Doubtful? By the end of this blog post, you won’t be. The secret is…Everything Counts! Little things become big things. Nothing is insignificant. Everything accumulates, compounds and piles up. If you long […]
Tell Me What You Did, I’ll Tell You Who You Are
The way I see it… If Maxwell House can produce a cup of coffee that’s “good to the last drop”…then I should be able to produce a message that’s “good to the very last word”. If 2018 stands a chance of being your best year ever, you must bake this reality into your mind… BEHAVIOR […]