As a lifelong tennis player, I was always taught to find the sweet spot – the point on the face of the racket between the middle and tip that propels the ball with more power and less vibration to the hands. Well after landing in Guatemala City on Tuesday afternoon, I think I found the […]
2020 Year In Review: Disruption and Renewal
2020 was the most disruptive year of my lifetime. And for the sake of the entire planet, I hope it remains that way. However, it was also a year where we had to adapt. We are human beings, that’s what we do. I thought that 2019 was perhaps the most productive year of my life. […]
25 Books of 2020
In 2020, I completed 25 books, totaling 8,333 pages read. I stepped up my reading by Audible, doing 15 of those books on Audible (for the equivalent of 5,188 pages audibly read). I read five books in print and another five books through the Kindle app on my iPad. I’ve written book reviews for about […]
Book Review: Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
In 1901, Booker T. Washington wrote an autobiography, Up From Slavery. The book describes his position as a free black in the South, having to work his way up as a slave child (he was nine years old when the U.S. Civil War ended and the slaves were freed). I read this book via Audible […]
Book Review: Born Again by Charles Colson
I recently completed Chuck Colson’s book, Born Again which I read via Audible. This was the 23rd book I completed in 2020. Chuck Colson was an attorney who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon. We all know the story of the downfall of Nixon and his Presidency – and Chuck Colson was known […]
Book Review: The Grand Weaver by Ravi Zacharias
The Grand Weaver is a powerful, yet short book by Ravi Zacharias that describes how the unseen hand of God is constantly working in our lives. Everything that happens in life is for a reason and sometimes we endure challenges and sufferings, but God is there with us. The book’s title paints a wonderful picture […]
Book Review: Mind Gym
Earlier this summer, I interviewed Orlando City Soccer Club player Chris Mueller on the Agents of Innovation podcast. One of the major highlights we covered in the interview was the fact he has recently started a book club, one he calls the “Be The Best” book club. I am a member and I encourage anyone […]
Book Review: The Business of Expertise
The Business of Expertise by David Baker guides you through the process by which entrepreneurial experts convert insight and experience into impact and wealth. It is a book that really strives to help those who want to help others through some knowledge or experience they have and to bring together that expertise in the form […]
Witnessing the Defense of American History at Mount Rushmore
July 3, 2020 was a great day at Mount Rushmore. The vision I had came fully true and then some. As I mentioned in my post written and published ahead of the event, I had gone to Mount Rushmore exactly two years prior to this day – on July 3, 2018 – and there were […]
Making Mount Rushmore Great Again
In the spring of 2018, I realized I was going to be making my last ever payment of my student loan on July 5, 2018. That is just one day after Independence Day. It got me thinking. I should do something special for Independence Day. After all, with no mortgage, no car payment, and no […]