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The Difference Between Gifts and Choices

We're all born with a set of gifts that set us apart from others. These gifts can be anything from being born a natural athlete, to having a photographic memory, or being very intelligent. These differentiate us and, if nurtured, we can be utilized as the building block for a successful life. Our gifts may help us do well in school, sports, or find a career where these gifts are given the air they need to shine through.

Checking and Recalibrating Your Goals

It's already a couple weeks into the 2nd half of the year. Can you believe it? The first half of the year blew by so fast. Some days felt like they would never end while other entire weeks flew by before coffee could even be poured. It seems that just a few days ago we were all sitting around making our New Year's resolutions and setting our goals for the upcoming year.

What Drives You?

I have a simple question for you: What drives you?

Celebration and Donation

At about this point during the New Year's holiday many are relaxing with their friends and family, recovering from hangovers after a night of partying, making resolutions and setting goals that will guide them, hopefully, for the rest of the year.  While I'm not hanging out with family or friends and therefore not having to recover from a hangover, I am focused, immediately, on a single goal.  That goal is to make January 2nd the best day possible for my beautiful wife, Laura.

When You Hit the Wall

This was originally posted on workshifting.com (a client project) but thought these tips could be useful to you over here as well.

Being the Chief of Stuff

If you ever read this blog, follow me on Twitter or any of the other number of networks I'm on, you'll quickly realize that I am fascinated by anything that's behind-the-scenes.  For example, I love that with New Marketing Labs I get to hang out with really cool companies at their offices.  As I've said before, I try to look behind-the-scenes of other industries to learn from and apply to the way I do things with my businesses.  That's why when I began reading about Reggie Love, the "body man" for President Obama, I became super interested.  A "body man" in politics is not a personal bodyguard, the Secret Service takes care of that.  Instead, a "body man", according to Wikipedia, is:

Boston 4th of July Fireworks

There are many reasons why when I was growing up I always wanted to move to Boston.  I've always loved Boston and used to come to the city often on class trips, to explore, for sporting events, the Tall Ships or any other reason I could find.  Back in January I got that opportunity to move to Boston when we opened the doors to New Marketing Labs.  One of the things I had always wanted to do but never got the chance was to go to the 4th of July celebration.  Well, a few things aligned right in our schedules and last night Laura and I ventured down to the waterfront to watch the 4th of July spectacular.  It was simply amazing.

Sleep is Forbidden

One of the things I get asked the most is whether or not I actually sleep.  Due to the amount I try to interact on various platforms, this blog and Prime Cuts as well as my responsibilities to New Marketing Labs, my steakhouse, and a host of other projects I'm involved in, the short answer is: no I don't sleep.

9 Tips for Getting Back in Shape

I have always been someone who enjoyed being fit whether it be working out, playing sports or just being active getting out and about.  But, unfortunately, over the past couple years I have been on again off again with working out.  I'll do really well for a few months and then I let something like travel, vacation, busy work week or another excuse throw me off.  I've never stopped being fit such as choosing stairs instead of elevators or trying to eat decently healthy but I haven't committed to it in the way that I have in the past.