As I watched the Olympics this year I thought about that saying, The Joy of Victory and the Agony of Defeat. Watching Michael Phelps pull in his fist full of medals certainly displayed that joy of victory again and again and then, unfortunately, watching Alecia Sacramone dissolve the American Artistic Gymnastics dream of a gold medal certainly displayed that agony of defeat. I could empathize with both athletes, not that I ever lifted a finger in competitive sports but I thought back on my career as a speaker and recalled a few precious moments where everything went exactly right at that most important moment when it meant the most and other times when everything took me to a disaster. I guess in a way, the Olympics mirror the events of many of our lives.
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An Awesome Experience
It must have been very early in 1997 that I first met Greg Brayton. I had written a song and had a melody hanging in my mind and, since I could not read or write […]
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Our news coverage, TV and Press is a Mess
Sometimes I get the feeling that the media itself is the cause of many of America’s biggest and most frustrating problems. Instead of news reporters we seem to have titillators and agitators and instigators and an […]
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Fear Itself
In pulling America out of the deep depression that began in 1929 President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a tide turning speech that had this quote, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” […]
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