Lessons from the Greatest
This past Friday evening, one of my boyhood heroes passed away. Muhammed Ali, the sports icon and three time heavyweight boxing champion of the world died after a 32-year battle with Parkinson’s disease. As a youngster growing up in Atlanta, I remember how...
The Gift of Time
When I began speaking for a living 35 years ago, preparing for a talk required several books opened on my desk and a trip or two to the library to look up material related to my topic. Today, I can sit at my desk with a laptop and have all the information I could...
How Can I Talk to Them When They Don’t Pay Attention?
I read some terrible news this week. Our attention spans are now shorter than the attention span of a goldfish! Please say it isn’t true! Microsoft just completed a landmark study that determined a human’s attention span on average is 8 seconds. A goldfish, on...
Be the Hero
Last week at the Deupree House senior living facility where he lives, Dr. Henry Heimlich performed his namesake medical procedure on a choking victim. The person was 87 year old Patty Ris, also a resident at the Deupree House. A bite of hamburger had gone down her...Subscribe to the Podcast!
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