Louie Jones of The Louie Jones Show on Blog Talk Radio once told me to look for the gray cars.  Translation:  Pay attention to the opportunities around you.  Like gray cars, they blend into the atmosphere.  Once aware of them, though, they are easily seen. In October I identified one when I stepped off the elevator of the visitors’ bureau in [...]

If you’re on Tyler Perry’s mailing list you know about the childhood memories he shared.  Horrific accounts of the kind of verbal and sexual abuse that could have made him bitter, but made him thankful, instead, for all he has overcome, as well as the new life it has led him to.  Evidence you can see in his life and his work.  He’s [...]

Mistakes are typically associated with failure.  But they can also birth possibilities.  Sometimes they are blessings in disguise.  Just ask Melissa Rycroft.  She’s the woman Jason Mesnick became engaged to on reality show The Bachelor, only to be embarrassed by him a few days later when he changed his mind in favor of runner up [...]

Death came in threes this week.  It began with the passing away of Ed McMahan, the Tonight Show sidekick of former host Johnny Carson.  Days later he was followed by Farrah Fawcett, an actor best known for her role as a female detective on the hit series Charlies’s Angels.  (Loved her.)  And hours after that [...]

There’s a sign on the employee entrance of a local steakhouse restaurant that reads: “Perfect practice makes perfect.”  Not practice makes perfect.  Perfect practice makes perfect.  I found it an interesting post because it reminded me of something athletes already know.   Athtletes don’t endure hours of rigorous training simply to hit the mark.  Their goal is to master it.  They know that the [...]