Yesterday was my birthday!! One of the awesome gifts Jen gave to me was the new Dave Barnes album, Golden Days. I’m currently on the third listen straight through. So good. One of the songs on the album is called Hotel Keys. It talks about success. How sometimes, it can take you places you never […]
Category Archives: Storytelling
Back To The Future is an awesome movie. Anything that has hoverboards, time travel, and stainless steel cars in it, is obviously a win. There is an unrealized story of work in this movie as well: Dr. Emmett Brown has an idea. A crazy idea. He works quietly on it for 20 years until he […]
Apple’s new iPad Air commercial is perfect. It’s about passion, contribution, and creativity. It’s about humanity. It contains one of my favorite poems: O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman. As Robin Williams recites this (Along with a quote from Dead Poet’s Society) what unfolds, what transcends in this ad, is more than just a […]
Andrew Peterson is one of the best storytellers I’ve ever heard. The way he takes basic ideas and lessons and turns them into amazingly beautiful adventures is incredible. You know a good song by the story it tells. You know a good story by the different journey it takes you on every time you hear […]
A few months ago, I was reading John Maxwell’s book Winning With People. In it he tells a story. John was in a hotel in New Zealand for a conference. He found himself looking for the vending machines and was having trouble finding one. In his search, he wandered into the staff lounge hoping that […]
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