Category: Motivation

“Hey, Johnny, thanks for fixing our sink; it’s working great. And by the way, when you get back to your shop – mind asking someone to give me

Have you heard of the Stanford marshmallow experiment? About 50 years ago, Dr. Walter Mischel conducted an experiment on delayed gratification with a group of young children. The children

What are you going to do this year to help the community you are serving?  Just saw a FaceBook post that Mark Stepowoy’s company in Cleveland bought 176

In the movie Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner was driven to build a baseball field in a cornfield by the recurring thought “if you build it, they will

I have a big, noisy, fun family. Growing up, we lived around the corner from the McCartheys, a family with a set of kids that matched ours.

I’ve shared the story of my career journey and how I got “unstuck.” In 2009, I made the decision to leave a secure corporate job that I had

Just had a trip to Minneapolis, traveled with a distributor rep for two days. Al Weber is a seasoned veteran, does a great job as territory manager working

We started a book club. A company book club. At first, I thought, “Is this really going to work? Can I really get my team to read one

Our mantra at Shepard Presentations is to Always Be Amazing. Those three words are very important. They are totally consistent with what we stand for, what I write

217. That was the number of new emails a sales executive I was working with had received during a day spent offline and off-site doing strategic planning work. A dozen