Category: Monday Motivator

Planning your next career move, expanding knowledge, building networks, sharpening resumes and anticipating the future are things you should be doing now.Whether your personal brand is on an upswing or in need of some attention. It’s a good time to review some of the basic behaviors of career building.Strengthen your network relationships.“A friend is one…

I watched The Blind Side again this weekend. The story of Michael Oher, is, itself, is a great Monday Motivator about courage.The courage it takes to do right, when everybody else is doing wrong. The courage it takes to care for someone with potential, when everybody else is telling you not to. The courage it takes to…

The best speech of the 2010 Final Four happened on Saturday night. Michigan State University’s Draymond Green gave it.“We know we have to change a lot of things that we do as a team and as individuals… We have to go back and take a look in the mirror, realize who we are, how to…

The best speech of the 2010 Final Four happened on Saturday night. Michigan State University’s Draymond Green gave it.“We know we have to change a lot of things that we do as a team and as individuals… We have to go back and take a look in the mirror, realize who we are, how to…

I rode Amtrak into Chicago this week to spend the day with Jana Obrien. We first met at Michigan State when I was spending to much time on the radio and she was building the fundamentals of a brilliant career in advertising research.We contemplated our reflections in Cloudgate, that incredible sliver space ship at Millennium…

I rode Amtrak into Chicago this week to spend the day with Jana Obrien. We first met at Michigan State when I was spending to much time on the radio and she was building the fundamentals of a brilliant career in advertising research.We contemplated our reflections in Cloudgate, that incredible sliver space ship at Millennium…

Sometimes I get on a roll. As I research these Monday missives I admit to occasions when I have so much I want to share that the normal pre-caffeinated attention spans in our mornings together don’t quite have the stamina to keep up.Such was the feedback I heard from a beloved colleague this past week…

If I could make one recommendation to improve your mood, energy capacity and proclivity it would be this: Get rid of the Energy Suckers in your life! “If people around you aren’t going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they’re dragging you down, get rid of…

If I could make one recommendation to improve your mood, energy capacity and proclivity it would be this: Get rid of the Energy Suckers in your life! “If people around you aren’t going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they’re dragging you down, get rid of…

My wonderful daughter, Shelby, is one of my biggest cheerleaders. From the time she first understood speech, she heard me talking about how attitude is everything and she practices what I preach.When she was very young, I loved the times I would tuck her in at bedtime and we would discuss what transpired during each…