I wrote a post recently about the Chick-Fil-A Leadercast. In that post I mentioned ways to make the event more productive and useful to the attendee. After all, the point behind learning something new is to apply it to your life.
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This week my friend Kimanzi Constable has released a new book. It is entitled “are you living or existing.” While books titled like this are normally a dime a dozen, I think it’s important that you take a look at this book and see if it helps you toward your own goals. I’ll explain why.
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Events like the Chick-Fil-A Leadercast fall into this category. There will be 9 world-class speakers on this day, all with life-changing information to share. Sadly, you will likely fall into the trap of not using the information that you hear during the event unless you have a strategy in mind. Here are five things you can do to make sure that you get the most out of this day.
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So what happens when you do all that work and get rejected by your top college choices? You have a fabulous GPA, your test scores are in the top 5%, and you have a diverse background but still get those rejection letters. One high school senior took to the keyboard and typed out her frustrations.
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Ever set out to do something then find you’ve worked your way into a corner? That’s where I am right now.
I put out a goal/resolution earlier this year to publish seven books by year’s end. Today is the last day of February and I haven’t published one. What happened?
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The older I get the more I realize that there is a generation gap. I’m using phrases like “when I was your age” and “just wait till you grow up.” What happened, and when did I become my parents?
While I like technology my use doesn’t hold a candle to how my kids use technology. I read a headline a couple of years ago that proposed the least used app on a smart phone is “Talk” – in short, that means people use their phones for anything except phone calls. I thought that was a little bit far-fetched until this happened in my home recently.
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I had an experience last week that I wanted to share with my readers. I am not sure whether I reacted properly in a given situation, so I’ll begin by telling you my story. It has to do with giving feedback and criticism to others.
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It is very easy to find fault in others, to “Monday-morning quarterback” or to offer unsolicited advice. We can pick up what someone else should have said and done and come up with half a dozen different ways that they can get better. And sometimes, we even make it our own personal mission or project to fix someone else. But do we stop and consider ourselves before we step in and lend a hand?
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After last year’s BCS Championship Game, I wrote a blog post giving ten reasons that Alabama won. Here we are, a year later, and Alabama has repeated as champions for the 2012 season. Their 42-14 victory over Notre Dame at Sun Life Stadium was a lopsided affair. Alabama sprinted out to a 28-0 halftime lead which saw Notre Dame playing uninspired football.
When asked by the on-field reporter going into the locker room what fixes they would have to do in the second half, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly’s remarks caught me completely off-guard.
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I played a game years ago in the early days of computers called Lemmings. My guess is that many of you have at least heard of it, and probably played too. The object of the game is to save as many of these little green creatures as you can at each level. You save them by navigating them through a series of obstacles and hazards to the goal for that level.
These guys follow one behind the other, marching right in step behind the guy in front of him. In short, if you save the one at the front of the line, you save them all. But if they begin to die or fall off the cliff, those in the back of the line are doomed to the same fate if you can’t rescue them.
Sound familiar?
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