Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Growth, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Professional Development
In 1982, after finding no prospects for employment after graduating from a trade school, I met with a Navy recruiter. My trade school instructors encouraged me to check out the Navy. They learned how to be dental laboratory technicians while on active duty. But I...
Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Growth, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Professional Development
On an early Monday morning in 1990, I got a call from the quarterdeck of Naval Hospital Long Beach. The Officer of the Day requested I get down to the morgue as soon as possible. Turns out, there was a drowning victim that needed to be identified by dental records. ...
Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Growth, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Professional Development
In 1999, in my first job after the Navy, I made a huge mistake while teaching a workshop: I told a joke. It wasn’t a dirty joke. It was actually pretty innocent: “Last night I dreamed I died and went to heaven. St. Peter walked me around heaven. We went into a big...
Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Growth, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Professional Development
In August of 2002, I made my great tackle football comeback. Well, actually it wasn’t me. I signed my six-year-old son Dustin up to play youth football. Like many of the dads who dragged our kids down to the Germantown Community Center, we all missed the game and...
Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Growth, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Professional Development
Growing up, I loved watching old black and white monster movies on TV. My favorites were any of the old Universal horror films. The actors were all the same. Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, and of course the most famous: Boris Karloff. It was Karloff that made...
Gaining an Edge, Get Better, Growth, Motivation, Personal Mastery, Professional Development
In 1995, I was fed up with boxing. The formerly indestructible Mike Tyson, who cleaned up the heavyweight division in the 1980s had been beaten and was clearly on the downside of his career. Champs no longer fought the best contenders, content to pad their record...
