Keynote Speaker, Author & Reinvention Architect
What were you designed to do? The 1973 Porsche Carrera 2.7 RS is widely considered one of the greatest sports cars of the 1970s. The Carrera RS 2.7 was conceived as a 911-derived race car and was the first production street/race 911 widely offered to the public. At the time, it was the fastest German…
Lessons are everywhere if we’re open to seeing them. We have a new water filter/dispenser. It’s one of those rectangular ones with a spout. On Friday night, before going to bed, my wife filled it to the brim in preparation for filling numerous water bottles for our day at the beach on Saturday. I opened…
“Keeping up with the Joneses.” The term conjures up images of people displaying their prosperity through their homes, cars, clothes, country clubs, and parties. It’s a code term for materialism and flaunting your wealth, but underneath it lies a desperate need to fit in. Keeping up with the Joneses is a constant comparison; it’s a…
I started writing Blank Canvas when I was in prison. I used those black and white composition notebooks from high school and a cheap Bic pen. I used an iPhone when I was released to the halfway house because it was all I had. When I went home, I used an iPad from 2012 because…
When I worked in corporate sales, life felt one-dimensional. Chase deals, land deals, spend commission checks on a luxurious lifestyle. It was one chase after another, with constant anxiety that there wouldn’t be another deal around the corner – or even worse, I’d lose a client. The luxurious lifestyle was my attempt to give meaning…
What makes life rich and meaningful? Towards the end of his life, an interviewer asked Norman Mailer (American novelist, journalist, playwright, filmmaker, and Pulitzer Prize winner) if he had any regrets. One may think he’d list some common regrets: more time with family, less time working, or more time in nature. Not quite, his reply,…