“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” ~Jim Rohn Back in the late 70s, I briefly flirted with a career in real estate. It wasn’t my passion, so I didn’t last long, but it put me smack dab…

By Scott Westerman December at Michigan State University tests the constitution. If you live in South Campus, it’s a daily fight against the arctic winds as you cross the tundra, inadequately protected by the gossamer layers that students call winter clothing. At night, even the lights of the Capitol City…

By Scott Westerman Recently, a radio buddy was complaining that too many of his friends in the biz were getting fired. These are disk jockeys who have been doing the same thing the same way for two decades without much change in their act. According to this NYT article, this…

By Scott Westerman Remember when “reinventing the wheel” was a bad thing? We currently live smack dab in the middle of an era that requires reinvention. Those tried and true patterns that used to guide us don’t necessarily work anymore and the new stars will be those creative people who…

By Scott Westerman Shelby was born on September 1, 1979. I remember the day she made her entrance, head first and wide eyed, fascinated, as ever, with the adventures that awaited her. I remember watching her sleep and wondering how I could ever sleep again, with the awesome responsibility for…

By Scott Westerman Almost 20 years to the day after our first visit, we found ourselves in Disney World this week. We purposely returned to the Disney Caribbean Beach Resort. The first time our kids were 8 and 10. Now they are grown and gone, so Colleen and I could…

By Scott Westerman When Colleen and I visited Hawaii, one of the first places we explored was the famed Waimea Bay. The Beach Boys sang about it in Surfin USA and I wanted to see, up close, how those boys and girls “with their feet full of tar and their…

By Scott Westerman I got a call from a co-worker the other day. “Full disclosure,” he said. “I wanted you to know that we’re both competing for the same promotion.” We’re friends. He said he didn’t want me to hear about it from someone else. I thought that was a…

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. wrote these and for many years, they were on a poster on my office wall. As we celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary, I was reminded, again, of how important his first “suggestion for success” truly is. 1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine…

By Scott Westerman Once upon a time, there was a place where poets and composers gathered to create true magic. If you stepped inside the Brill Building during the 60s, you were likely to hear a half dozen pianos playing at once. If you were a time traveler from the…