Kid musicals are the worst. Can you imagine: waking up and saying, “I have to see that awful musical being put on by 10 year olds today instead of doing anything else…
Kid musicals are the worst. Can you imagine: waking up and saying, “I have to see that awful musical being put on by 10 year olds today instead of doing anything else in the entire world.” But it reminds me of a story. Theodore Geisel ‘s first book “And To Think That I Saw It […]
I had to interrupt him. I was too curious. I thought I would die if I didn’t ask. Whenever you are curious about something, don’t forget to ask a question. Curious. Question….Curious…
I had to interrupt him. I was too curious. I thought I would die if I didn’t ask. Whenever you are curious about something, don’t forget to ask a question. Curious. Question….Curious ==> Question. The only things you will ever remember are the questions you ask when you are curious. Curiosity is the ONLY technique […]
Steve Dinisio is the Angel of Death for failed businesses. When a business fails, the owner makes two calls. One to the bank and the next call to Steve. Steve sells their…
Steve Dinisio is the Angel of Death for failed businesses. When a business fails, the owner makes two calls. One to the bank and the next call to Steve. Steve sells their equipment, furniture, inventory, everything. Maybe he buys it cheap and sells it. Maybe he sells it for a commission. Either way he’s trying […]
The best negotiator I knew always acted like an idiot. He acted so well that I thought he was really stupid. I also thought at the time that he was my best…
The best negotiator I knew always acted like an idiot. He acted so well that I thought he was really stupid. I also thought at the time that he was my best friend. That was probably an act also. Just two years later he stopped talking to me forever. I ran into him in the […]
Ugh, then there are those times when I feel dead inside. I wake up early and swing on the pre-school swingset like a pervert. The sun rises and instead of being orange…
Ugh, then there are those times when I feel dead inside. I wake up early and swing on the pre-school swingset like a pervert. The sun rises and instead of being orange and blue and beautiful it’s white and glaring and it’s a terrible terrible sunrise, burning everything inside of me. Another day. This is […]
The car started to skid and swerve and we couldn’t stop. It was all my fault. I had sped up while going into a sharp curve. I was just fooling around. The…
The car started to skid and swerve and we couldn’t stop. It was all my fault. I had sped up while going into a sharp curve. I was just fooling around. The entire road was ice. My 12 year old kid was sitting next to me. Why did I do that? I don’t know. Because […]
I had a tape recorder and I was trying to tape a phone conversation with US Senator Bill Bradley by having one phone off the hook in another room and having an…
I had a tape recorder and I was trying to tape a phone conversation with US Senator Bill Bradley by having one phone off the hook in another room and having an old-fashioned tape recorder right next to it. I faked being sick that day. (“I threw up in my throat but swallowed it back […]
