“Oh, so you’re the guy!” The manager yelled at me over the phone. Okay, he didn’t quite yell as much as it was an exasperated exclamation. When you run a large record store like Tower Records in downtown Toronto, your day is a litany of problems that need to be solved. This means that you…
I have always been a quick starter. Basically what that means is that I am inclined to take action. It has been in my DNA ever since I was young. Let me tell you a story to prove it to you . . . When I got out of the university, some friends and I…
“Why’re you home so late?” My wife asked me. This is not a question a man wants to hear under any circumstances. I had an excuse but not an explanation. My excuse was that there was an accident on the highway. When I drove to a 9:00 pm appointment everything was OK on the roads. …
There is an entire industry built around taking pictures of famous people and then selling them to various magazines for big cash. It is a weird business because there are literally thousands and thousands of pictures of famous people. A celebrity’s entire business revolves around people having access to them. Some pictures are more valuable…
One of the members of my Elite Inner Circle paid me $50,000 USD for a program that I was doing without even knowing what it was about. He said, “Whatever you are doing down there in Florida, I want to be a part of it”. Now I have known him for a very long time….
There is a lot of wisdom in classic cartoons. They were signs of the times when they were in. Sometimes, though, they have a bit of wisdom stuck in there that can help us today. Case in point. I was on a company trip when I was in financial services. They made us bunk up…
