Let me begin by saying that I’m an ordinary man living an extraordinary life. I am because of people--influential ones--who saw me as being capable of doing more. As a result, they gave me opportunities way bigger than the job I was doing and the title I had. You are reading this blog because you want the same thing to happen to you. Here’s how: First, in life people will see you three ways: See you as being more than the labels society put on you. For example, the person wh

“The race doesn’t go to the swift or the strong, but to he who endures until the end.” In times of crisis, fear and uncertainty spread quicker than the crisis. They bring out the worst and the best in human nature. The worst in the form of hoarding, blaming, and ignoring; the best in the form of caring, providing, and leading. I know because in my life I have had to deal with various forms of crisis ranging from the unexpected death of my father that left my thirty-three year