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Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there. Thank you for all the hard work you have done raising your children. Job well done! “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist Do you know people who you can talk

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft Corporation This week I am talking to speakers and entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs use the same techniques as speakers. The only difference is speakers sell ideas, and entrepreneurs sell products or services.As

“If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to get over those nerves is to fully understand the material, the points, the policy you are trying to explain – and then practice it a little

“If you don’t practice, you don’t deserve to win.” – Andre Agassi, Legendary Tennis Star Remember when you were a kid, and your mom made you take piano, violin, or guitar lessons? Your music teacher told you to practice for a half hour each day to become good

“We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Great Britain Last Tuesday, I was contacted by someone I worked with forty (40) years ago. He is now a business professor at Liberty University

“The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet With computers, the Internet, and artificial intelligence, it may be hard to think people still read books. But they do.In

“To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from “What information do I need to convey?” to “What questions do I want my audience to ask?” – Chip Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die If you don’t deeply engage

“Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.” – Jim Rohn (1930 – 2009), influential and motivational speaker When I retired from the U.S. Air Force some years ago, my

“Failure is never final; success is never ending.” – Dr. Robert Schuller, famed TV evangelist In a horse race, the winner wins by a nose. So the difference between success and failure for the second-place horse was a nose.If the second-place horse had persisted and exerted extra effort,

Https://www.americanbar.org/groups/senior_lawyers/publications/voice_of_experience/2021/voice-of-experience-november-2021/dissenting-from-death-preventing-lawyer-suicide/Statistics on the suicide rate of lawyers in the United States are cause for concern. The Dave Nee Foundation in New York, a think tank for the study of lawyer depression, ranks American lawyers 5th occupationally in the incidence of suicide. According to the Nee Foundation, lawyers are the most