Somewhere in the middle of a 14-hour train ride from Haridwar, India to Agra my daughter and I killed time watching a downloaded copy of the comedy “We are the Millers.” It’s about bungling drug dealer David Clark (Jason Sudeikis) who enlists three others (including his “wife”, a stripper played by Jennifer Aniston) to pretend to be a family so they can drive an RV to Mexico for the one big drug… Continue reading
The hidden blessing of not getting what you want.
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” Dalai Lama Sometimes I just want the damn Porsche. This week I was in Toronto speaking about how I built my speaking business. The room was… Continue reading
Why you need to let go to get what you want
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” Hermann Hesse. It’s a funny twist of thinking that we often value what we have more than what we could have. The shirt we stopped… Continue reading
How to slap self-doubt in the face and get stuff done
I just got off the phone with a student in my BOSS program. She needed tough love. She was running around in cerebral circles thinking of all the things she should be doing, could be doing, to move her speaking… Continue reading
The bizarre truth about willpower and keeping promises
In a research facility near Sydney, Australia, 2 dozen people sipped coffee and listened carefully to their instructions. They were about to commit to a new exercise routine. In fact, it was much bigger than that. The plan was for… Continue reading
Stuck, frustrated, discouraged? Ask a better question
Working at home, late at night, after putting in a full day at his job at DuPont, Earl Tupper was about to have a breakthrough that would change his world forever and launch an international company. Modeled after an over-turned… Continue reading
Are you leading a secret life? (what I learned from Walter Mitty)
When I was a kid I had lots of heroes. There was my Dad who could out stare anyone, my oldest brother who could do anything, and of course Clint Eastwood who could out shoot everyone. It’s taken me a… Continue reading
