I was a busboy at a really nice restaurant/hotel early in high school. One day, I was preparing to take some luggage out to a car for a couple and found myself talking to the gentleman as he waited for his wife to come down to the lobby. This guy was not arrogant or stuffy…
Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman, survived adrift at sea for an incredible 438 days. This is the longest recorded survival at sea. Juliane Koepcke fell 10,000 feet after the airplane she was flying in was torn apart from lightning, survived the fall, and regained consciousness in the Peruvian rainforest. With multiple injuries, she then walked…
As I write this, we are in the midst of a government shutdown. To date, the United States has experienced eleven shutdowns, eight of which lasted five or fewer days. There are many, many times when I shake my head and wonder how politics have gotten to where they are today. Even when I was…
Basic human needs must be met to remain alive. We only last weeks without food, days without water, and minutes without air. Because of that, we all get enough air, stay hydrated, and don’t skip meals. These survival-related needs are fairly easy to meet and understood by just about everyone, and we all would agree…
There is a story in Gilda Radner’s book, It’s Always Something, about her housekeeper’s cousin’s dog. The dog was pregnant and playing in the yard when it was struck by the lawnmower, and both back legs were cut off. They rushed it to the vet and were told that it could be put to sleep…
Many of you will remember (but most may not) the television show called The A-Team. Mr. T was the tough guy in that series that most people will remember. Basically, there were four guys, all ex-special forces soldiers, on the run from the military for a crime they did not commit, that engaged in dangerous…
Would it bother you if I was recommending products that I do not use myself? Would it be upsetting to find out that I sell products and devices in my office that are not the best that I could find, but bring me the most profit? Would you lose all faith in me if you…
Phineas Gage was a railroad worker who, at age 25, in the year 1848, had a metal rod shoot through his skull in an explosion accident. This rod went through his cheek, behind his eye socket, and out the top of his skull. He not only lived, but showed no physical problems other than being…
As I drove through the city, making turn after turn, working my way to my destination, I had a thought, a thought that I have quite often… how in the world would I have gotten here without GPS? All I had to do is punch in the address, hit a button, and viola… a map…
We are all striving to be more successful. We usually are working on one area of our life or another at any given time. In our quest to succeed, we seek out information that helps us get what we want or where we would like to be. We listen to friends, read magazines, go to…