BRINK LESSONS
Winners Are Made, Not Born
Three minutes left in the game, ball on the twenty yard line. With eighty yards to go, a struggling offense and a quarterback that is tired and banged up, how can a team snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? Going head to head against three of your biggest competitors can be a frightening situation. Chances…
Be Like The Birdman
If you so much as touch a tree top. If you brush the ground ever so slightly. If you tilt your body the wrong way even a smidgen. The penalties are severe, death even! The terrain is most unforgiving! BUT, the reward is to break from human boundaries and achieve the impossible. Wingsuit Base Jumping…
7 Traits Define Great Character
Society is mired with countless characters who have taken full advantage of the public trust. A great deal of this mistrust has corrupted everyday life for millions of hard working people. Having real character and portraying character are two different things. Your CHARACTER is defined from all your talk – but mostly your actions. It’s defined by how consistent you…
When Is The RISK Worth The REWARD?
Think of the greatest innovators who pushed through the boundaries of average to accomplish their dreams when everyone thought they were crazy! The best technological advances have created an avalanche of innovations through market expansion. One big idea leads to another big idea. Having an idea is one thing, pushing that idea to fruition no…
How Big Is That Fish Uncle Joe Caught?
It seems every time I go fishing with Uncle Joe, the fish get bigger and bigger. I tell the story my way (my version of the truth) and Uncle Joe tells the story his way (his version of the truth). How the fish was so big it almost dragged him in the water. How he could…
9 Leadership Lessons From Maggie Thatcher
Mrs. Thatcher told the Liverpool Daily Post in 1974 that she did not think a woman would serve as party leader or prime minister during her lifetime. Much to the chagrin of the establishment, Maggie proved herself wrong. Shortly after making that statement she was elected leader of the Conservative Party on February 11th, 1975. Thatcher continued to make…
51 Out Loud Truth Lessons
There is a definite correlation between being over 50 and success – it’s called experience. That’s not to say that you can’t hit your stride in your 30’s – you can. It comes down to talent, luck, timing and many lessons along the journey. Much of it is commonsense – but honestly we get lost in the…
Revolutionary Humane Solution To Homelessness
On a single night over 600,00 people across America experience homelessness — finding themselves sleeping outside or in an emergency shelter. Homelessness with our Veterans is not only a big problem but it’s a national American disgrace! To fix the homelessness tragedy in America – there has to be an understanding of what exactly displaces people on…
5 Pivotal Life Lessons on Your RISE to Greatness
Something is amiss. You can’t quite put your finger on it – but you know that you’re not at your optimal level – and more importantly, you don’t know how to change it. Sometimes it can be your professional life, other times it can be your personal life. And if you’re really unfortunate – it…
43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, so be happy, smile :). Funny thing is when you walk the sidewalks of life in about any urban city, you’ll find more people frowning than smiling. Unless that is you live in Denmark. A new report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has found…
Running With Scissors
It’s a dangerous slippery slope my friends when we avoid discussion and debate and withdraw from challenging the status quo in order to get along. Being PC is the name of the game for the bureaucrats, the policy makers, the media talking-heads and the “proper” men and women sitting on their “proper” corporate boards. We’ve allowed fear of…
5 Sticky Factors on Relationships
Relationships may come and go – but great relationships will stick around for a lifetime! Any good successful human being knows full well ‘you can’t do it on your own’, the ride to the edge of your dreams is conditioned by the relationships you keep. Will the next person you meet be a life-long relationship or just someone passing through…
5 Truths Of Maturity
The most extraordinary sacrifice you can make, is the sacrifice you make with your own conscience! If you settle or compromise just to get along, you’ll become a victim of average and you’ll never experience the greatness in you. Here is the best advice from this column right upfront – ‘stubbornness should always win over…
Scientists Unlock Secret To Happiness
Whenever a national event or scandal occurs – you can count on the media to play it over and over again. The more scandalous the more play it will get. Why? Because bad news and gossip catch on like a raging wildfire. Ever notice that when a well-known, respected personality has a run of bad luck…
5 Pointers To Discovering The TRUE YOU
In 1902, social psychologist Charles H. Cooley identified the phenomenon of the “looking-glass self,” which he said was when we believe… “I am not what I think I am and I am not what you think I am; I am what I think that you think I am.” It all starts at a very early age…
Without Balance, Your Seesaw Won’t Move!
Much of the technical hardware and software you use today was developed to accomplish something specific, a means to an end. You had a problem, someone found a solution to that problem. You need something done more efficiently, a tool was put in place to accomplish that. There is a transitional shift that is taking…