The video from my last post about being more active/proactive in my life has been rattling around in my head ever since I recorded it in Shanghai. For one, that concept of being proactive really locked into something I had been feeling for a while without expressing as well as I could – namely, that [...]
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Hope you enjoy the video – trying to mix up the content here at ol’ Fierce and Mighty. I do a lot of public speaking for work and, honestly, I enjoy doing it. If y’all like it, I will do some more. And if you are interested in nominating me for the Hartford Courant’s Webster [...]
Back in 1952, a Protestant minister from Ohio published a book whose title, over time, has become a catch phrase unto itself. That man was Norman Vincent Peale and the book is The Power of Positive Thinking. It’s almost become a cliché unto itself in terms of people talking about how to get through difficult [...]
My daily commute to work is always a bit of an interesting experience and often a lesson in human behavior, as I’m sure it is for just about anyone who needs to take to the highways to reach their place of employment. There is one spot in particular that tends to draw the greatest opportunity [...]
I’m not sure if it’s El Nino or global warming or the Winter or some mysterious cosmic force only foretold of by Dionne Warwick and the Psychic Friends Hotline, but toxic people have been on my mind. Some of these have been people I have had the dubious pleasure of interacting with, but more often [...]
The L.A. Times (those nutty left-wing liberal media, Birkenstock wearing, hemp loving, peace and granola eating kooks that they are) had a crazy notion yesterday in the Booster Shots section of their Web site: using 2010 to focus on being… get ready for it… happy. Yup, good ol’ happiness. During my drive into work this [...]
