Rudy’s Promise: Mommy & Baby vs. Basketball
This past week one of my favorite players, a former Utah Jazz man and now 4-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, Rudy Gobert, made a decision that confronts the very topic of this blog with precision: to what level do you keep The Promise? His partner, the inspiring and lovely Julia Bonilla, was […]
Stepping Down When It’s Best For The Team – The Promise of José Abreu
This week, former MVP baseball player, José Abreu, was sent down to the minor leagues. It may not seem like significant news to a casual observer, as baseball players go minors to majors and back to minors often. Here are articles with ESPN and Yahoo Sports. For a former 3-time All-Star and MVP, who […]
Honoring Those Who Helped Us Get There – Shannon Sharpe
I have spent 12 hours today working on outlines, examples, and stories for my next 20 YouTube videos. These 10+ minute each videos will be recorded this coming Friday, a marathon of challenging filming that stresses the body and mind, but the outlines are due a week prior, and may be the toughest work […]
Your Daily Routine
For years I have worked to create a daily routine that starts off my day in the ideal ways of Promise-level living. You may already have yours down pat, for which I would like to know what you do, if you’re willing to comment below some of the secrets of your success. The more […]
When Executives Keep The Promise – The Legend of Troy Nix AMBA
This week I witnessed something I’ve never seen done on stage at any event in my nearly 25 years of attending conferences worldwide. In Grand Rapids, MI, the Executive Director of AMBA, arrived on stage in a suit and tie, delivering a stirring motivational speech as good as any of my hall of fame […]
The Copyright Claim
Monday I woke up, excited to have a great day, and head out the door to my speaking event. Quickly checking emails (famous last words), I was hit with the kind of message every small business owner dreads: Copyright Claim! Yes, an image on this very blog was copyright protected and I owed nearly […]
The Chocolate Factory Broken Promise
“Better than advertised” is always preferred to “Worse than we anticipated!” Did you read this story of the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory Experience in Glasgow, Scotland 2 weeks ago? It advertised a spectacle of fun & beauty, replicating the famous movies and experience for kids, only to have families show up to a near empty […]
Your Favorite President
Who is your Favorite President of the United States? And why? I grew up in the eras of Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and have raised children during eras of Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden. It’s amazing to think there have been so few presidents in my lifetime, only 8 of them, as I’m a few […]
Do The Right Thing
The young player committed his 5th foul, with applause from the opposing team, as the kid who kept hitting everyone would finally be fouled out of the game. Looking over at the opposite bench, it was obvious there would be a discrepancy as the final few minutes of the game was played. The other […]
The Empty Gym
It is the final week of January 2024. For the last few weeks I have noticed a trend at my local gym: Week 1, the gym was bursting at the seams and overcrowded; Week 2, no matter the time of day, it was less busy; Week 3, even less issue of finding a machine […]