SYNOPSIS Helen Keller once said, “Life is either a daring adventure or is nothing.” Wow, can you imagine what an adventure Helen Keller’s life was? Deaf. Blind. Mute. The only sensorial inputs she had were taste ...
SYNOPSIS Did you know that airplanes always take off and land facing in whatever direction the wind is blowing? Resistance x speed = Lift And yet, sometimes the pilot finds that winds have changed and must ...
SYNOPSIS In this JumpStart, I take you live and behind the scenes at one of my speaking gigs to share with you an important principle of life. Whether at church or at a conference, MOST people ...
SYNOPSIS Here’s a game: the next time you’re at the airport take a look around and count the number of people NOT on their smartphones. Thanks to smartphones, we never have to be bored, we can ...
SYNOPSIS There are things in life that, let’s be honest, really frighten us. And some of these things are super silly. The other day I faced one of these ultimate, “OMG, what if THIS ever happened?” ...
SYNOPSIS Here’s one of my pet peeves: hearing someone say, “I’ve tried everything.” In almost every case, “I’ve tried everything” really means, “I tried one, maybe two things, and they didn’t work so I gave up. ...
SYNOPSIS Consider this: researchers have found that fear in a society is directly proportionate to the number of “unknown strangers” perceived in that society. In other words, the more people around you that you don’t know, ...
SYNOPSIS The other day, I heard a snippet of a sermon about The Good Samaritan given by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King said, “The Samaritan chose not to do good by proxy.“ ...
SYNOPSIS I just read about an amazing study that took place in Morocco. Researchers gave local merchants money and told them that they could either keep the cash or give it to charity. Remember, Morocco is ...
SYNOPSIS Occasionally, I will get someone who challenges one of my Facebook posts. They don’t challenge its logic; they challenge its universality. They claim that they are an exception to whatever I have posted, and they ...
SYNOPSIS I learned something interesting the other day about the classic toy known as an Etch-a-Sketch. When you draw on an Etch-a-Sketch you’re not actually drawing on the glass surface. What you are actually doing is ...
SYNOPSIS I’ve mentioned before that my daughter Starr is the most popular person I know. I’m not bragging–I had nothing to do with it; I just love sitting back and seeing how she magnetically draws people ...
SYNOPSIS What if someone else took over your body for 30 days? How would you then look, dress, move, feel at the end of that 30 days? Your life is like a ship and you are ...
SYNOPSIS Have you noticed this about heroes? They don’t do a lot of complaining. When something goes wrong–as it always must–a hero accepts what has happened and, more importantly, accepts responsibility for fixing the problem. We ...
SYNOPSIS Many people like to play the game where they ask, “If your house were about to be destroyed and you could take out only one thing, what would you keep?“ Perhaps it’s a good idea ...
SYNOPSIS From the time you could walk, you have been enclosed. You were enclosed in a playpen, a home, a neighborhood, a schoolroom. And nowhere have you been more enclosed than in your own mind. In ...
SYNOPSIS For most people, saying “I don’t know how… I don’t know how… I don’t know how…” is a closed loop that keeps them stuck. Whenever you need to do something and you don’t know how, ...
SYNOPSIS Having been on both sides of selling and buying many products and services over the years, I’ve noticed a common mistake business people make that limits their success. And because this mistake is so prevalent, ...
SYNOPSIS The other day I was sitting on our deck, and I could hear our neighbors on either side enjoying the beautiful weather on their decks as well. In my mind I thought, “I love our ...
SYNOPSIS Have you ever wondered why it’s not healthy to envy other people? Envy sends out a vibration into the universe that YOU’RE not OK, that YOU’RE not enough, causing you to receive less and enjoy ...
SYNOPSIS I’ve noticed a common difference between people who succeed compared to those who do not. Unsuccessful people are invariably waiting to feel like doing what it is they know they should do. Unsuccessful people wait ...
Audiences leave energized, hopeful, and equipped with practical tools to communicate more effectively, adapt to change, and take action on what they can control.