by Jeff Price | Jul 18, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Parenting
I’m sure someone has done research on this but why does it seem the people we fight with the most are the ones closest to us? In fact, we say some of the most heinous things to our dearest love ones. Things that if we said to a stranger on the street would...
by Jeff Price | Jul 17, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Parenting
One of the things I really appreciated about Bruce Feiler’s book, The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go out and Play, and Much More, is that he acknowledges the reality that of all the great advice that is...
by Jeff Price | Jul 16, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Parenting
Life changes. The parenting and relationship skills that worked in our agrarian and even our industrial societies no longer work. It is time to write the new rules of how to be a happy and successful family in the 21st-century. Author Bruce Feiler conducted exten sive...
by Jeff Price | Jul 15, 2013 | Life & Career Success
I’m very appreciative of all the attention that Mark Donald is bringing to the cause of post traumatic stress, in Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic. War and the weapons of war are intentionally designed to kill people in the most effective way...
by Jeff Price | Jul 12, 2013 | Life & Career Success
I’m not sure when or where this value was instilled but the concept of it being better to beg forgiveness than ask permission seems to be a recurring theme throughout my life. Whether as a US Coast Guard Officer, or in airport operations at some of our...
by Jeff Price | Jul 11, 2013 | Life & Career Success
I have always struggled with the concept that being a good leader means being a good follower. I guess I just always associated being a follower with being a lemming. I even know that followership is something that is trained in the military and in some management...
by Jeff Price | Jul 9, 2013 | Life & Career Success
As any reader of my blog knows I love books about the US special operations. Special operations personnel never settle for second-best. They strive to be the best of the best and to accept nothing less. They are an example of the right way to do things. While I have...
by Jeff Price | Jul 7, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs once said, ““Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal.” Turns out great artists also hang out together and steal from each other. So here’s a simple question, why do people who want to be actors or actresses go off to...
by Jeff Price | Jul 2, 2013 | Aviation Security, Introduction to Screening
You may be noticing more canines in the screening checkpoint these days. This is part of TSA’s risk-based security strategy and is known as managed inclusion. Taking of advantage of airports with pre-check managed inclusion takes randomly selected passengers...
by Jeff Price | Jul 2, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Brain Matter, Life & Career Success
Where does our creativity come from? We know its somewhere inside our brain but how do we access it? Wouldn’t it be great if we could just turn on a switch and be creative? Sort of a creativity on command? I love the song “Imagine,” by the late John...