by Jeff Price | Apr 18, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Personal Safety
Whether you are flying, driving, riding the rails old school like, or going by magic carpet, anytime you travel you are taking some risk. The rewards are generally worth the risk in most cases, but there are a few basics you can do to protect yourself from being the...
by Jeff Price | Apr 17, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Personal Safety
Whenever an incident like the bombings in Boston occur, there is first the search to find the offender, then will come the “how could this have been prevented” question. The answer to the second question may not be one of institutional culpability, but...
by Jeff Price | Apr 16, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Personal Safety
It’s ironical that on the week we’re focusing on personal safety and protection, tragedy strikes the Boston Marathon when two bombs explode. The casualty count is still at 3, but many more are wounded and many are in critical condition. Our hearts and...
by Jeff Price | Apr 16, 2013 | Aviation Security, Current Affairs
Unfortunately, terror has struck the U.S. again and again it hits the Boston area – remember, two of the flights on 9/11 departed from the Boston/Logan Airport. This was not an aviation attack this time, but it serves as notice that the threats have not gone...
by Jeff Price | Apr 15, 2013 | Life & Career Success, Personal Safety
This week we explore author Ira Lipman’s excellent book, How to Be Safe: Protect Yourself, Your Home, Your Family, and Your Business from Crime. I believe that part of the secret to living a successful life is knowing how to protect yourself and your family from...
by Jeff Price | Apr 12, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
“Do not wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand: work with whatever tools you have at your command, and the better tools will be found as you go along,” Napoleon Hill (as quoted by Brian Tracy in Flight Plan: How to Achieve More,...
by Jeff Price | Apr 11, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
When US Airways 1549 was forced to ditch in the Hudson River, there were quite a few people who were very happy that the Captain had some grey on the sidewalls and that he’d also been a glider pilot. There’s something to be said for experience. According...
by Jeff Price | Apr 10, 2013 | Aviation Security, Uncategorized
TSA announced a pending Airport Security Program amendment that intends to require airports to staff sterile area exit lanes, by the end of this year. This has been a sore spot for airport operators for many years, as pre 9/11, exit lane protection was the...
by Jeff Price | Apr 9, 2013 | 50 Books in 50 Weeks, Basic Success Principles, Life & Career Success
In 18 years of teaching Aviation Job Targeting at MSU-Denver, the one consistent theme that I’ve stressed to all of my classes, is if you want to get a job, you need to demonstrate how you can add value. Brian Tracy echoes this statement in his book, Flight...
by Jeff Price | Apr 5, 2013 | Life & Career Success
With the stellar success of the special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan it stands to reason that the politicians will decide that the solution to all problems is to simply make more of them. However, politicians rarely believe in the law of the harvest. It...
