Image – It Can’t Be Everything

My son shows me his newest, coolest, Lego truck.  “But it’s more than a truck, Dad”, he says.  “It’s a boat, and has jets on the back end so it can fly.”  A child’s imagination has unlimited possibilities.  Yet, as an adult, my perceived expectations are met, so all I see is a truck. Image […]

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Confidence is the ability to do…

In school, kids would mock me, “It’s easy”, you always say, “it’s easy”. For me school was not easy, but I always felt I could achieve anything. I was confident, I did not need a mental block of say “It’s hard, and I cannot do it.” I just did it, right or wrong, I did […]

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Working with Community Leaders of Mokena

In the upcoming month, I will be working with community leaders in Mokena and helping them to develop a strong brand for any organization.   I will be addressing the Mokena Chamber of Commerce on “How to Enhance Your Brand Through Your Image”. I’m looking forward to meeting new business leaders and  helping them create an […]

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Generation X Needs to Know the Truth about Texting at Work

That new gen-x sales guy is a real go-getter. First day on the job he sets a new company record. Over one thousand personal text messages sent without getting caught. Several decades ago, managers where outraged at the number of email employees sent around the office. It was not the amount of emails, but the […]

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Twerking with Tiger Blood

Shielded in Teflon, a personality that just does not care, millions on the line, and celebrities keep trashing their image and laughing all the way to the bank.  These individuals are gambling on their performing skills to overcome controversy and our ability to forget their misgivings.  Call it ego or just stupidity, they keep advancing […]

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Your Image While Networking

I am a people watcher. This started at an early age when my family would go out shopping and Dad and I would stand in the mall looking at people passing by while my mother and sister shopped. Standing on the rail looking down, Dad would make a comment, “Look at that lady”, or “See […]

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Being Yourself

Wisdom from a Cartoon I yam what I yam and that’s all that I yam, I’m Popeye the Sailor man (toot, toot)! Popeye knew exactly who he was. He was not trying to change his image, but instead he was looking to be with people who accepted his character flaws. You can spend hours each […]

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Back From Fishing

Wouldn’t it be relaxing if you could just put up a sign that reads “Gone Fishing”? Put the world on hold, stop to look at the clouds passing overhead, no longer needing to look at a Facebook status. Just relaxing and enjoying the moment. I have two little boys and, periodically, I have to STOP, […]

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Words to Live By

“People are great as a result of the small, but cumulative, habits they develop. There’s no one thing that makes a man. It’s the combination of your ambition and attention that makes all the difference to others in your life.”  Dr. Stephen Covey Sr.  

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