by Motivated Magazine | Aug 25, 2011 | Interviews
What fears of your own did you have to lean into in order to complete your recent book, Linchpin? The biggest fear was the fear of blowing it, of alienating a hard won audience. The second fear was in not living up to the opportunity, of writing something small or not...
by Motivated Magazine | Jul 8, 2011 | Grow
I equated being homeless for a year as somewhat like winning a Powerball lottery; it was sudden and somewhat unexpected – I mean, I knew it could happen, but I didn’t really think it would. It was totally life-changing, in both good and bad ways. And, it taught me...
by Motivated Magazine | Apr 20, 2011 | Lead
“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”. Robert Frost As an entrepreneur for over 15 years, I recognize that truer words have never been said but, while I attribute much of my...
by Motivated Magazine | Mar 30, 2011 | From Within
When I was five-years-old my dad forgot to drop me off at kindergarten. I was safely buckled into the back seat of his green Ford, silently watching the clouds float by while he was lost in his own thoughts. He parked the car in the college parking lot where he...
by Motivated Magazine | Jan 21, 2011 | From Within
Perhaps it all begins on the playground at school. Somebody breaks a rule during Four Square and all hell breaks loose. “You can’t do that! That’s against the rules!!” Playing the game, whether in Four Square or in life, is all about following the rules. And when...