Josh Freedman is the COO of Six Seconds, a world-wide not-for-profit organization created for the purpose of advancing our knowledge of the importance of EQ – Emotional Intelligence.  This is a key concept in understanding leadership, and more importantly for every leader – how to develop follower-ship.  One of my friends, who is an...
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Dr. Stephen Walker Health & Sport Performance Associates Alamo Placita Building 825 E. Speer Blvd – Suite 205 Denver, Colorado 80218   Located in the perfect Central Location – Right next door to the gorgeous gardens of Denver’s Alamo Placita Park and across the river from Hungarian Freedom Park in Denver’s loveliest neighborhood. The...
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One of my good friends is a media guy – does large scale marketing involving Television and emerging PPV internet applications.  Pretty complicated stuff and frankly is engaged in a business that seems to have lost a lot of its humanity, especially when you consider the revelations amongst Rupert Murdoch’s “NewsCorp – News of...
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There is no doubt that great speakers and inspirational leaders have good skills at swaying public opinion – but the most powerful of movements, inventions, companies, and collectives revolve around innovations in thinking.  It is the “Why?” people gather together, are involved at the ‘tipping point’, and spur on great things. What made the...
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Professor Sugata Mitra is featured on TED in a lecture from Oxford in July 2010.  Mitra is a well known professor working in the field of educational technology.  He’s done novel research with computers in environments where ‘teachers’ don’t want to go.  Imagine remote hard-to-get-to villages or perhaps Somalia – not exactly the locations...
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Those of you who know me understand how much I’m aligned with the principles and practices in positive psychology.  We are never perfect in that regard, but coming from a rather acerbic and negative upbringing – the challenges remain constant – especially in parenting and in properly managing our own self-talk. Randy Pausch became...
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On a cold January morning at the Washington DC Metro Station in 2007.  The Washington Post engaged in a social experiment.  Here is the story: Two Thousand People were witness to this story A man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through...
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Music and it’s spiritual qualities have been known to help (or hinder) concentration and our abilities to learn.  How movement might fit into this mix is just now beginning to be understood.  A teaching lesson without hearing a word?  Well, not only is it unorthodox, but extremely potent.  This widely seen video of singer...
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Box of Dreams A poem by Charles Pfeil I opened my little box of dreams today Elated again for it never forgets Treasuring my hopes, desires, imaginations _ I pursue these dreams not in wild abandon Rather with vision and purpose To make myself and those around me better _ Though each passing day...
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There are many features that make PETTLEP a fully functional aspect of mental conditioning especially for athletes of sports that require fine motor coordination (aka. gymnastics, diving, high jumpers, pole vaulters etc).  However, it should also be known that even endurance athletes can employ methods that reinforce the experience of “going with the flow”...
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