Entries from November 2007 ↓

In “Work Like You’re Showing Off” Joe Calloway uses the surge in popularity of high-stakes poker as a metaphor for going all-in with our lives and careers, much like a poker player would. It is about bringing your best to every situation.

He recounts a sermon his pastor recently gave about “Going All In”. “In poker when you go all in, you are putting it all on the line, every last chip goes into the pot. It is the most intense and exciting time of the game.” Continue reading →

Randy Pausch a professor at Carnegie Mellon University diagnosed with liver cancer with a prognosis of only months to live, gave his final lecture on September 18th, 2007. “Living Your Childhood Dreams” on September 18th of this year. He allowed it to be streamed, it has since been watched over 1 million times.

The video streams from Google and It is almost 2 hours in length. If you don’t want to watch it all at one time, you should use You Tube video further down as it is broken up into segments.

Part 1 from You Tube

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer gave an awe inspiring commencement address on doing what you love. Stanford University on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots. Continue reading →

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” Henry Ford

A frequent comment I often hear from is that people feel they are performing below their potential in their business or career. I used to think they were being perfectionists, after all we are always our own harshest critic.

As I dig a little deeper, it seems to be something else. They know what they want to do, the action to take that would advance them in the direction they want to go. For some reason they do not take that action, they are seemingly resistant to taking it.

It is these actions, that can make the difference between being average or extraordinary at what we do. Continue reading →

Many people I speak with feel like they are stuck or in some kind of career rut. They may be in the wrong career, the wrong job, or just not have the opportunity to contribute the best parts of themselves.

You know that feeling we get when you are really connected to what you are doing, it is an experience like very few others. It is a hard feeling to describe, yes it feels good, almost like an energy surge inside of one’s self. Not only are you enjoying what it is you are doing, it also feels right; not in the sense of right or wrong, but right for “me”. Continue reading →