I recently asked a CEO who is a good friend of mine, “What are you doing for Black History Month?” He looked at me and said, “Actually, I didn’t even think about it.” That right there is an opportunity wasted. Related: Can We Find Common Ground? 4 Ways...
When you are successful, you want to give back to the people responsible for your success, but sometimes you have to say ‘no’ to family, even when it’s tough. I was recently talking to a friend — a phenomenal yogi, podcaster and public speaker. She turned...
There is nothing people talk about more and do less than budgeting. Nobody wants to hear about it, and I get that. Yet budgeting empowers the purchases you do make and brings satisfaction for the purchases you avoid. Budgeting gives you a whole new perspective on life...
As an athlete, I have focused on building almost every muscle in my body — but I had to teach myself to build my money-saving muscle. And out of all the workouts I have done, my money-saving muscle has benefited me the most. It opens doors....
Multiple times in my life, I’ve received bad news. The death of my grandmother. My father needing a kidney transplant. Being released (that means fired) from an NFL team. Minor disasters have cropped up too, like popping a tire when I had a guest in town,...
It was my day off, in the season when we eventually won the Super Bowl, and I was playing with my kids. Enjoying my life. In the middle of family time, I got a phone call from a friend who said, “Man I just heard...
What's the character of your team? Five and a half weeks into our Super Bowl season we had a guy “join up” to replace a player who we all really liked. Do we treat the new player with disdain because he came in and disrupted our...