When I was 19, I spent a year of college in Mexico, in the state of Michoacán. Half the time I lived with a family in the city of Morélia, and the other half in a small farming village called La Colonia Benito Juárez. In Benito Juárez, I spent my days talking with the young [...]
I am on a Nancy Duarte kick this week. Yesterday, I participated in her webinar on how to create powerful, effective presentations. She has such great perspective, based on her work as expert slide/presentation coach at TED. Today, she tweeted about this video made by Bianca Woods, a Master’s degree student in Education Media Design [...]
Today is the first day of Summer, and the official launch of a new storm of work for 2010 and 2011. Those of you who follow me on Twitter have heard me talk about the new book in progress. It has been welling up inside me like an electrical storm, inspiring me with ideas and [...]
Thank you Dad for: Your love of words and books. Believing in the craft of writing and photography. Walking through your own growth and learning despite the pain. The way you get excited about a fresh issue of The New Yorker read in front of a warm fire. Spending hours, and years, picking up cans, [...]
(image from the wonderfully kitshy Kitchen Retro) My friend Andy Wibbels once said that if you get the same question more than three times, you should think about creating a product that answers the need. My version is if I have the same conversation with more than two coaching clients, I must write a blog [...]
I am often racked with guilt as I recycle many works of art created by my son Josh at school. Each day, he runs up to me with excitement and shares his latest creation of pyramids of Egypt, or scorpions or, in his current craze, penguins in Antarctica. I cringe as I drop them in [...]
I had a fantastic time last week participating in a conference at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy Center for Public Leadership. The event was for professional speakers and those who relate to their business, like book publishers, speaker’s bureaus, meeting planners and author agents. It was hosted by public speaking wizards Nick Morgan and Nikki Smith-Morgan, [...]
There is a reason Rocky has stuck in our consciousness for a few decades. It feels great to watch someone faced with adversity dig deep and win one for all of us. Amanda Wang‘s fight has all the great elements of Rocky with an added twist. Amanda is a graphic designer who lives in New [...]
There is a reason Rocky has stuck in our consciousness for a few decades. It feels great to watch someone faced with adversity dig deep and win one for all of us. Amanda Wang‘s fight has all the great elements of Rocky with an added twist. Amanda is a graphic designer who lives in New [...]
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