by Jeff Price | Oct 7, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
If you did not grow up on the coast, when you think of surfers many of us think of Bode, Patrick Swayze’s character from the movie Point Break. Many people on the coast might think of him too, who knows, but when a friend recommended that I read Laird...
by Jeff Price | Oct 5, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
On January 29, 1986 I turned on the TV as the Space Shuttle Challenger climbed gracefully and powerfully into the sky, then watched as it exploded. The public affairs officer narrating the launch said those fateful words heard ’round the world: “Obviously...
by Jeff Price | Oct 3, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
We live in an interesting world. As a species, we are pre-disposed to follow the person who seems to know what’s going on. It’s probably a survival instinct. We often will see a visionary leader, someone who is inspirational and colorful and full of...
by Jeff Price | Oct 1, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
It seems the term “hot mess” has made it into our cultural vocabulary so in that spirit, let me say that our lives are a hot mess of our habits. Depending on your habits, that can be a good thing or a bad thing. I imagine its a little bit of both. Charles...
by Jeff Price | Sep 29, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
The last three pieces of Head Trash addressed by Tish Squillaro and Timothy I. Thomas in their book, HeadTrash!: Cleaning out the Junk That Stands between You and Success, are Anger, Guilt and Paranoia. While anger it is normal for everyone to experience at times,...
by Jeff Price | Sep 28, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
“I’m not over controlling, I just know what’s best and if it wasn’t for me, these people would be lost.” We all know this boss – the control freak. The “Control” type of Head Trash can be hard to avoid because in some...
by Jeff Price | Sep 26, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
Authors Tish Squillaro and Timothy Thomas in their book HeadTrash!: Cleaning out the Junk That Stands between You and Success, believe that insecurity is the most crippling of all the Head Trashes (40). … and I believe it. Of all the Head Trashes, fear,...
by Jeff Price | Sep 25, 2013 | Business and Management, Life & Career Success
Paralysis by analysis. It’s a problem that plagues a lot of organizations, particularly those organizations which are entrenched, often after years of success, and are afraid to make any decision which could result in failure. Better to wait and gather more...
by Jeff Price | Sep 22, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Parenting
It is one of the oldest jokes in the world and it has about 1,000 variations on the thing. It usually goes something along the lines of, “yes I’m having a daughter and yes I already bought the shotgun.” I have heard this joke so many times that now I...
by Jeff Price | Sep 20, 2013 | Are We Safer, Aviation Security
In 2012, the issue of perimeter security made headlines numerous times. From a jet-skier swimming to shore and accessing the ramp at JFK, to a drunk driver slamming through the perimeter gates at Phoenix-Sky Harbor, to a former airline pilot jumping the fence...
