Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away and we’re not going to wait until Turkey Day to put a focus on gratitude. Gratitude opens your mind to opportunities, calms your body, and makes you feel happier! ...
Yesterday, I was driving around the keys all day as ominous black clouds passed overhead. The clouds looked heavy with rain and they cast black shadows over land but not a drop of rain fell. That ...
Have you ever met someone who just seems to say things that, although they may be true, carry a hint of negativity or criticism? There’s a new character like this on the new season “Ted Lasso” ...
Fully 50 years ago, there was a major movie flop about a virus that spreads from person to person on respiratory droplets. Although some of the biggest stars of the day were in the movie, the ...
Are you noticing the rising use of the term “toxic (whatever)?” Phrases such as “Toxic masculinity” are becoming quite common and the other day I even saw one of my posts as “toxic positivity.” Say WHAT? ...
In a previous JumpStart, I invited you to adapt to your circumstances and make the most of them. Someone typed a question in the comments section asking if adapting and accepting are the same. They’re not. ...
The word “adapt” is defined, “To adjust or modify fittingly.” That means that when stuff goes sideways you simply do what you can to: Not make it worse Pull the best out of it In this ...
After talking about Winnie the Pooh in yesterday’s JumpStart, I thought about a Calvin and Hobbs strip where the two of them are arguing. When Calvin finally gets his stuffed tiger friend to agree to something, ...
Back when I was a kid, there was much less to keep us entertained so we valued the entertainment we got. Like, the comics!! Every day my little hands would dig through the stack of newspaper ...
Who doesn’t love the wisdom of Winnie The Pooh, right? “Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie, A fly can’t bird but a bird can fly. Ask me a question and I will reply: Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.” In ...
Have you noticed just how wrong some conventional wisdom can be? For example, the idea of “don’t just sit there, do something!” has caused lots of people problems because often hyperactivity is counterproductive. The way I ...
As you know, I’ve been gone for a couple of weeks and it’s good to be back with you again. So, you’ve heard the analogy of the frog in the water, right? If you turn up ...
In a normal year, there is an average of 150 in-flight incidents involving unruly passengers on airplanes. But in just the last 4 months, there have been…get this: 1,300 such incidents and they’re increasing daily to ...
Over the last month or so I’ve been watching the words that pop up in my mind as I’m approaching any new task from learning a new software program to playing pickleball. And these phrases are ...
As you may know, I’m addicted to the TV show Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudekis. Well, recently I’ve gotten hooked on Friday Night Lights starring Kyle Chandler. One is a show about British football (soccer) and ...
This morning as I sat out on the bay having my coffee I watched the two preeminent birds in Key Largo. The seagull and the frigate. The frigate barely moves its wings and rarely ever cries ...
In the last month, I’ve given live speeches in Napa Valley, Phoenix, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Austin, Traverse City, Dallas, and I’ve noticed one thing each of these events have in common… Stress balls. You know ...
This pandemic has put the limits of human flexibility under an enormous stress test. People working from home, children staying home for school, some businesses being open and others being closed. Then there is the conflicting ...
As I was preparing to record this jumpstart this morning I had several things go wrong. Not a big deal, that’s just life. And what I discovered is that each additional small challenge seems to be ...
Yogi Berra said a lot of profound things. Including, PLAYER: “What time is it?” YOGI: “You mean now?” This always makes me think of Salutation To the Dawn the ancient sanskrit poem. Listen to the salutation ...
You are a combination of your actions, thoughts, and emotions. If you change any one of these, the other two will change. Seems like life should be pretty easy then, right? No, we have ants in ...
Audiences leave energized, hopeful, and equipped with practical tools to communicate more effectively, adapt to change, and take action on what they can control.