Again, like so many business people, I am in a dither about Twitter and faced with the question: To tweet or not to tweet. When I first wrote about this in 2009, I ended my post with a T. Boone Picken’s suggestion of spending my time developing relationships that are a foot wide, but a mile...Read More

Success takes persistence and perseverance.  Have you ever persisted through all obstacles and come in dead last for your efforts?  Well, I have!  I was pleased to learn on my recent trip to Alaska that in the famous Iditarod dog race there are two awards granted.  Of course the winner is well recognized, but so...Read More

Do you want to be known for how incredibly you live your life, or for how incredible your resume reads? For the record, your answers do not have to be mutually exclusive.   The opportunity is to begin to explore the answer younger than we have traditionally even asked the question. The potential Don’t Die ™...Read More

One of  the Don’t Die Principles of Responsibility, you teach what you need to learn, reared its pretty head yesterday as I reviewed Trevor Blake’s, The Physics of Success, Session 3 from The Intelligent Optimist.  Session 3 was about delineating the difference between goals and intentions.  In the middle of listening and taking detailed notes,...Read More

Two questions lead my day-to-day work life: 1.  Did what I do (or am doing) today make me happy? 2.  Did what I do (or am doing) today make me money? Preferably, I want the answer to both questions to be ‘yes’.   These questions are ones I have shared before, but they really come...Read More

KISS – Keep it Simple, Silly!  The months I devoted to TEDxUNLV speaker selection and development were not in vain.  One of the many lessons I was called to ‘remember to remember’ was how keeping a subject simple allows for the greatest access to all listeners. That simple lesson seems to be the theme I...Read More

Coming out of hibernation, traversing life-love changes, life-work changes, success, connections and books.  These are the things I live and breathe on a daily basis.  When the topics come together, I usually write another Don’t Die book!  This time I am sharing a blog post that articulated a slice of what all those topics looks...Read More

Why do teachers teach?  It certainly is not for fame and fortune, but I did experience the answer in real time last week. Recently as I entered a restaurant with my husband Richard and our friend, Dr. Gard Jameson, a young woman approached.  She said, “Dr. Jameson, I am so-and-so, I took a class from you...Read More

What do the Superbowl, Puppets and GoDaddy have in common with me and my work – A focus on the desire to help others create a life of success. I am not a person who watches the Superbowl for the game, but I do watch half-time and I do stop whatever else I am doing...Read More

You must Focus to Succeed and Heidi Grant Halvorson has developed some free, short assessments (magic word after a holiday spending binge on the first day back to business — free and short) to help you do both.  If you started this new year with a list of intentions, a bucket list or some good...Read More