The POWER of BEING FULLY PRESENT!

Last month was fairly uneventful, outside of the fact that my son started walking and I had some spectacular guests on my radio show.One of these guests was Rita Coburn, the director, and producer of the recently released documentary, “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise”. During our time together on the Inspirational Perspective Radio Show, Read More

Did You FEED Your Potential Today?

There are a number of self-awareness questions that I ask myself on a routine basis. Of these questions the one I find the most challenging to answer is as follows: Am I reaching my full potential? The reason I find this question difficult to answer, is because I can ask this question of myself to Read More

5 Reasons Motivation Is Good, But Misunderstood

Lately, I’ve received a number of emails from blog readers and radio listeners, asking how they can fix their lack of motivation. In these emails, the theme I’ve seen has been a flavor of the following two phrases: “I’m just not motivated.” “I’m not motivated enough.” These phrases, while common, are clear indications that most of Read More

7 Weeds That Are Strangling Your Seed of Greatness

  We all have a seed of greatness; we’re born with it. Every human being that lives and breathes on this planet has a gift or talent to provide the rest of the world. The full expression of that gift is what causes us to relate to them as great! Michael Jordan reached greatness! Mother Teresa Read More

7 Reasons You’re Always Exhausted

Recently, I read an article sharing data that most adult Americans live in a constant state of exhaustion. Lack of sleep was the number one culprit. Yet, even adults who averaged seven to eight hours of sleep every night still claimed to feel tired and/or lack energy. In the past, I’ve read studies like this before Read More

Sandbags and Barricades

This past Thursday, Chicago got hit by a ferocious flood. During this flood, water ran rampant in certain neighborhoods throughout the city, destroying homes, cars, landmarks and just about anything else that lay in its wake. This weekend, as I was driving through my neighborhood, I noticed that one particular street was completely closed and Read More

Disconnected in a connected world!

  This is an amazing time to be alive. Technological advancements in the last 100 years make our lives so much easier and efficient to lead, than the lives of our great-grandparents. We can travel faster, communicate real-time no matter the distance and even access information almost instantaneously. Many of us carry our technologies with us Read More

The Negative Energy Cycle

  Yesterday I had an enlightening interaction. Now this interaction wasn’t enlightening in the sense of walking away feeling more uplifted.  What I experienced was quite the opposite.  I walked away feeling exponentially worse than I felt just moments before the interaction took place. Here’s what happened… I received a phone number via text from Read More