Baseball and Business Pitching
In baseball, it all starts with the pitch, the thing that happens when someone throws the ball off of a…
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Stop – Look and Listen
Remember when you were a small child and you were learning how to cross the street? There was a phrase…
Writing For the Sake of Writing, a Way to do One’s Own Stop Look and Listen
I have been tasked by my coach to write at least 1200 words a day. Why? Because it is writing…
Isolation and Introversion
“You were Practicing Social Distancing Before it became Fashionable.” The above quote was given to me from a family member…
My Own Stop Look and Listen Moment: How I botched a Job interview and I’m Ok with It.
My coaching program called Stop Look and Listen is a 3-month program. But sometimes, doing all three of those things,…
Biographies, They Provide a Way to Listen.
Hearing Vs. Listening I am a habitual lover and consumer of biographies. Typically of long-dead people, politicians, movie stars, musicians,…
Looking with John Ford
Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford by Scott Eyman I just finished Scott Eyman’s great biography…
The Difference Between a Cane and a Dog: Stopping in a Reactive Vs. Proactive Environment
I had a guide dog for 12 years. Katie worked with me for 10 of those 12 years and we…
The Difference Between Hearing and Listening
“No, I’m not Bipolar.” Some years back, I was doing an intake with a psychiatrist. That long one that takes…
The Exposure Business
Do you ever realize just how much you have to say to the world? When the world and so-called social…