047 – You are Your Top Five

  I love Jim Rohn, and you should too.  You can listen to him here. His tracks are a positive trigger for me to keep on track and fired up.  Plus his cadence, delivery, and humor provide an amazing example of delivering presentations that all leaders could learn from. This particular quote so often repeated […]

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G33 – U.S.A. U.S.A

    It’s opening ceremony tonight for the Olympics.  Whether you are an avid classical fan (watching it on TV) or a modern fan (watching clips as they emerge online), I hope you enjoy it.  It seems as though in each passing Olympics, I start to understand more of the how the Olympics came to […]

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G32 – Music Memory Recall on Ocean Avenue

While the sense of smell is arguably the greatest at recalling memory, or at the very least an associated emotion to that memory, I’d unscientifically argue that sound does a pretty good job at recalling as well.  Music from holiday times, road trips and even annoying commercial jingles trigger memories from the past. And this […]

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G31 – Academic Knowing versus Experiential Knowing

On this mid-May Friday, students are graduating, commencement speeches are being recorded and a new set of the work-force leaves the protected halls of academia to be free to embrace the realities of life. Like a rescued sea-lion being released back into the ocean… Hopefully it doesn’t go like this:   But often there are […]

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