Monday Morning Memo

She jumped from the window of a building on New York’s East Side on January 19, 1981. Her face was erased by the fall. I’m not sure what I was doing that day but I did not kill myself. No one knew her name so her body remained unclaimed until she was reported missing. She &hellip Continue reading »

Guilt is about what you have done. Shame is about who you are. I’ve always been attracted to people who are guilty, but unashamed. Guilt without shame is audacity, a special kind of courage.  It’s what we admire in the little boy who shouted, “The king is naked! Right there in the middle of the &hellip Continue reading »

He seems to have been crazy. Seems to have been. Bubbling, babbling in bits of broken English, Sam was a cantankerously crazy old man. But what he left behind was beautiful. He worked on it alone from 1921 to 1954, then signed the deed over to a neighbor and disappeared. Never came back. The Beatles put &hellip Continue reading »

[audio:http://goodies.wizardacademypress.com/MMM120409-HeightOfBrand.mp3] How tall is your brand? As long as we’re on the subject of brand identity and reputation, how are brands created in the first place? Is a brand merely the sum total of all the things a company says about itself? Of course not. Ads do, of course, play a big part in branding. &hellip Continue reading »

Elijah, according to the Bible, was a Tishbite. Google “meaning of Tishbite” and the first page of results will give you a glimpse of the grand sweep of opinions we have when it comes to things religious. Tishbite means “stranger” according to some sources but Wikipedia says Tishbe was a place, thus, “The phrasing can &hellip Continue reading »

“‘Hunches,’ his mother used to call them. The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really just a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.” – The Alchemist, by Paulo &hellip Continue reading »

Before we begin, you need to know that a “3.0 frequency” is RadioSpeak for reaching the same listener 3 times. TSL means “Time Spent Listening” and PPM is “Portable People Meter.” Hi Roy,   I’m sure that you receive this question often, but I didn’t find your personal response to it online. How do you believe &hellip Continue reading »

This isn’t what Richard Exley said last week, but rather what I took from it: If you want to be truly happy, 1. Commit to a cause greater than yourself. 2. Value people rather than things. 3. Give thanks for what you have instead of complaining about what you don’t have. 4. Celebrate the ordinary. &hellip Continue reading »

In 1605, Quixote’s fearsome giants were windmills and Dulcinea1 was his beautiful, impossible dream. “What giants?” said Sancho Panza. “Those you see there,” answered his master, “with the long arms, and some have them nearly two leagues long.” “Look, your worship,” said Sancho. “What we see there are not giants but windmills, and what seem &hellip Continue reading »

My back is against the wall and I don’t know what to do. The vortex of this crisis is pulling me into a toxic blue quicksand of the soul. I struggle until hope is gone. The light is growing dim. I have no one to blame but myself. As I lift my weary eyes one &hellip Continue reading »