Bad things happen to good people. Life isn't fair and it isn't easy. There are thousands of clichéd statements that help us understand that things can be tough sometimes. Life gets hard from any number of things, and it is most often things that are out of our control or a result of our own bad decisions. Regardless of how you enter into tough times, it is so important ...Read More

I just finished a memory course at Southern Methodist University. The class was all about the lively mind and techniques to engage the right-brain and left-brain simultaneously in order to skip short-term memory and move straight to long-term memory. What we learned was quite fascinating, but before we were able to start learning memory tricks, our professor had us get comfortable with forgetting. She had us say to ...Read More

Ever since I published Views From the 13th Floor: Conversations with My Mentor and started penning this blog, people have been interested in learning a little more about me. To answer the questions, I thought I'd publish this post with a little more information. Today I live in Dallas, Texas. I've been in Dallas ever since I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelors of Humanities and ...Read More

Last time we looked at a couple of reasons people keep each other down when making decisions in their careers. One being jealousy to see others succeed and the second is the pursuit of a personal agenda. Neither are good reasons, and I don't think there are any good reasons not to help each other out when a group or friends are trying to advance in some way. ...Read More