A business colleague of mine sent out a request to my national industry group this past week to “Chime In” and asked “What is your favorite BOOK?” She asked the group to… “Share one: One that you’ve read again and again, or that had a profound impact in your life and/or your business“… “Or share
Summer reading and a listening First… The Tao of Pooh Read More »
Tomorrow is my 65th birthday. WOW. 20’s is old when you are a teenager. 30’s was “over the hill” when you were in your twenties. 40’s and 50’s seemed decrepit in your thirties. 65 is OLD at any time, unless you are 65 – which I now find myself. Now my 87-year-old Mother, who we
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This is a picture of me from July 1st, 2020. I was about to embark on a first for me, that started my journey of A Leap Year of Firsts – flying a plane. I had committed to doing this in front of a room full of one hundred people on December 5th, 2019 –
Come Fly with me in doing a FIRST! Read More »
I attended my FIRST Titan 100 photo shoot interview yesterday after recently being nominated and selected for the 2023 Titan 100 class for Philadelphia. Ok, what is a Titan 100? As described by the awarding organization … “A Titan is a person of exceptional importance and reputation. Albert Einstein was a titan in the world
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After over 17,000 steps on my walk this morning I happened upon a war memorial in a nearby town. The memorial had a walkway through a little garden containing a sculpture with a fountain that led to a few etched granite panels with different quotes from legendary leaders. After my eight-mile walk, I read the
We went LIVE with SOLAR this past week on my building in Northeast Philadelphia at Spike’s Trophies Ltd. YAY! I posted the image above on my social media. It has been a LONG and winding road to get here. The planning process for this started a few years back, at the end of my Leap
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This past weekend I drove two hours to the Delaware Water Gap to climb Mount Tammany on the Appellation Trail. I have started to hike daily in a quest to get back into shape. I wanted to challenge myself with something other than my flat old man morning walks of a few miles or so.
Prepping for an unthinkable long-shot quest of a “first”… Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro Read More »
I was fortunate to be selected to participate in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business program a half dozen years ago. The program is a free condensed version of a MBA program, sponsored by Goldman Sachs. It is intended to have you come out of the program with a detailed business plan to grow your
Grumpa (me as a new grandfather) is a reformed workaholic who had spent most of his life chasing success and accumulating material possessions. However, as he grew older, he realized that he had missed out on the simple joys of life that money could not buy. He longed to connect with something deeper and more
Thursday with Luke… Life Lessons Read More »
Think WE, not just me… that is the motto of the Satell Institute, a leading CEO member organization for Corporate Social Responsibility. I was an invited guest to their semi-annual meeting, which was held at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA. this past week. The title of the half day conference was: Changing Lives Now–Corporate
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