It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon last July. I was cooking lunch for my family. I didn't see all the missed calls. By the time I checked my phone, I had 10 of them. The alarm company, police, my business partner, my neighbor. I knew something was terribly...
It’s for the hoity-toity…or is it?
You don't think you can do it. You think it's only for rich people, only for the hoity-toity, or the highfalutin. You think that taking time away from your business is not for you. You think that you have to continue to grind to be successful. Your...
This world is f’d up…..or is it___?
"People are mean and nasty" Which people? How are they allowed into your world? Who allowed your controls to be handed off? Now think about this... How much time and energy are you spending on people that don't value your time? I wonder what would happen if you simply...
It gets a bad rap…. but it’s your ticket to freedom.
It's a powerful word. STOP. It gets a bad rap. We tell our kids to stop over and over. It means to discontinue. What if all this time, that's all we need to do. Discontinue....or STOP. Stop letting our time be controlled by others. Stop going about our day...
Can you find more cool stuff?
Find $5 in the laundry? Someone let you merge in traffic? Catch all the green lights today? Some other cool thing happen? I bet when you noticed it, More cool stuff started happening. Keep noticing. Journal all that cool stuff. Notice the time standing still when you...
God was looking for a pizza man
This week, I heard that Gary Bimonte, a co-owner of the iconic Frank Pepe’s Pizza on Wooster St. in New Haven had passed away. I never met him and I was curious to learn about him. I looked at his obituary and the funeral home website guest book. I checked his...
It was ugly……but it drove us to victory.
He pulled that old faded clunker right up to the field every game. It was ugly. It didn’t look like fun. But he always got out of it with a smile on his face. To coach his Bad News Bears. Our uniforms...a size too big. Our athletic abilities… subpar at...
It Mauled me……but I had the last laugh!
Why don't bears like fast food????? They can't catch it....... When the slower caveman encountered a bear he had two choices. Fight or flight. Flight or FEAR is our brain's primal response to protect us from the uncomfortable, the scary, the harmful. Not...
It was nasty……but it felt sooo right….
I used to say it all the time. Usually before a difficult task. One that would require me to get uncomfortable. That nasty four letter word. But… saying it was therapeutic. It was my excuse for not taking action. I would say......
Do they suck….. or what!
People suck. They really do. And that's your story. That's why business is bad, you think. Nobody's spending, you say. But they are. The pandemic crushed a lot of businesses. True, but many more bounced back. Your story isn’t the real story....