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TEDx Youth Academy – November 2011

January 19th, 2012

Train Your Teen To Make Decisions Like Steve Jobs

October 7th, 2011

Train Your Teen To Make Decisions Like Steve Jobs When Steve Jobs died this past week, the youtube video of his Commencement Address at Stanford University from 2005 ‘went viral’, being sent around to millions of people. What always strikes me each time I hear that speech by Steve Jobs is the extraordinary irony of [...]

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Comment on Walter Payton’s Story & Society’s Quest For Mediocrity

September 29th, 2011

Lashon Hara: A Jewish Law that prohibits the use of true speech for a wrongful purpose. As Joseph Telushkin describes it: “any statement that is true, but that lowers the status about the person about whom it is said.” My Thoughts on the Walter Payton Article – My Childhood Sports Hero I’ve had a number [...]

The #1 Reason Teens Drink

September 28th, 2011

The Number 1 reason most teens start drinking is surprisingly simple! If you effectively address this issue, you will resolve almost every concern you now have about the role drugs, sex and rock and roll (or hip-hop!) will play… and I will even help you do it. Q: So what is the reason? A: To [...]

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Are Geeks Really Better Off As Adults?

May 18th, 2011

IThis is a response to an article that I posted a link to on my facebook business page “Why geeks make better adults than the in-crowd”. It is based on a book called “Geeks Shall Inherit The Earth” by Alexandra Robbins. It has inspired me to make this commentary. As always, I hope you find [...]

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No Ordinary Mentoring!

May 12th, 2011

Periodically but not infrequently, I get emails from other practitioners who find my site and want to collaborate or train with me. They read what I write on my website and find a parallel between what I am offering and what they either feel they are doing or what they want to be doing. Mentoring [...]

One Thing You Say Or Do Can Change A Child’s Life – Keynote Address

March 21st, 2011

June 2009 – Los Angeles - Audio Recording This is a recording I of a keynote address I gave to 700 Summer Camp Staff members in Los Angeles in the summer of 2009. While you cannot see the pictures I showed in the background, the stories alone should be descriptive enough. I believe the most [...]

Keynote on Mentoring – Audio

March 19th, 2011

This is a recording of a keynote I gave in Phoenix, Arizona February 2010. The audience is made up primarily of people who work in the Summer Camp industry. On the screen behind me while I was speaking, were the 13 Character Traits of Extraordinary People. You can receive the complete report on these by [...]

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Help Save Our Kids From The “Find Your Passion” Dilemma

February 17th, 2011

Help Save Our Kids From The “Find Your Passion” Dilemma For over a decade now, Passion is in Fashion. Similar to the “Happiness” movement that swept the self-help industry, it has become ubiquitous to talk about passion as something that is everyone’s birthright and simply must be found. (If you don’t know, in the year 2000 [...]

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