It's true. There's tremendous value in choosing a word that you want to define your upcoming year. A word that will act as a guiding principle for all
your actions, choices and intentions. But after January 1, after you have selected your word, how do you make that word actually show up for you? How
do you remember to consciously apply that word to your life each and every day? Read More
“Stand here, bite down on the mouth piece and take a step forward,” the dental assistant said as she put me in the zippy 3D panoramic x-ray machine.
It was clear she wasn’t thrilled to be doing this since I was being seen on an emergency basis right at closing time and this was making her stay late.
I did as she asked. Read More
I’m a high maintenance dental patient. That’s right - a motivational speaker who is a high maintenance dental patient. It’s almost an oxymoron. But it’s true. I just think about going to the dentist and my left eye starts
twitching. And what makes this really fascinating is that I am also the (self-proclaimed) World’s Most Experienced Dental Patient.
Name a procedure and I’ve probably had it done - more than once. So you’d think I’d be over it by now. Yeah, right. I’m not. Read More
"Happy energy,” the director responded when I asked why he selected me as one of the actors for the newest Coors Beer national commercial. He had auditioned over one thousand actors for the ten very small (3 second) principle on-camera roles, one of which I had gotten. Read More
As a motivational speaker one of my areas of focus is on how to build strong,
healthy, mutually beneficial relationships. As we all know, the quality of our lives is in direct proportion to the quality of our relationships. We
also know that one of the best ways to strengthen our relationships is for both people to honestly endeavor to meet the other person’s needs. So what
do people need? Read More
Ever see the laugh-out-loud and extremely revealing video about kids, marshmallows and delayed gratification? It's the one where they give a kid a
marshmallow and tell him that he can either eat the ONE marshmallow right now OR, if he waits until the researcher comes back in a few minutes - he
will get TWO marshmallows! Read More
As a motivational speaker who talks a lot about what makes people happy and successful,
it is CRYSTAL clear to me exactly what needs to happen in order for the world to run smoothly: Read More
I suppose ALL motivational speakers on the planet
talk about what TO do in order to be successful in life, but it suddenly occurred to me that it might also be of value to talk about what NOT to do.
Like what NOT to do if I had some habit that I wanted to change. A habit like…oh, I don't know…eating sugar. How about that one. So instead
of looking at what I SHOULD be doing to change this crappy behavior, let me look at what I am doing that is keeping me stuck. And if you are interested
in changing some self-destructive habit, here are a few things that may be keeping you stuck. I'll use the example of my sugar consumption: Read More
Okay, first of all, I admit it. I am a motivational speaker who focuses a LOT on the power of creating happiness in spite of your circumstances. I talk to people about how life is never about what happens to
you, but rather what you choose to do about it. I mean, Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist,
Holocaust survivor, and author of Man’s Search for Meaning, painted a very vivid picture of how he made it through unimaginable horrors while imprisoned
in concentration camps by thinking about his wife, whom he dearly loved. Read More
I was mortified. Literally, I could not speak. (Which, for a professional motivational speaker,
is not a good thing.) Read More
