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Continued from February 27… THE ABBREVIATED VERSION OF MY FAMILY HISTORY IS NOW COMPLETE… You may be wondering why I went down this life history road. When I was preparing for the priorities phase of creating our life playing field* I came across the quote above. If you haven’t figured it out by now, I love…
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What a powerful quote. In the mid-1950’s education was about to become one of my family’s top priorities. Continued from February 26… When Joe and Janice started their family they had a major priority around providing their two boys with better lives than they had experienced. My mom was a full time teacher while holding down the…
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What are your thoughts about the quote above? To me the best wins are the ones that are the most difficult. And the most difficult wins are usually the wins which take the most sacrifice. Continued from February 25… My mother, Janice (aka Dutch) grew up on the other side of town from my…
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Continued from February 24… By the time I entered the world I had no clue what my grandparents had endured as they had turned a major setback into a huge setup for future generations of Meyer’s. Upon my Dad’s graduation from high school he enlisted in the Army. His dad had served our country…
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Continued from February 23… The young boy in this story was my dad, the grandson of Frederick Meyer an immigrant from Germany who came through Ellis Island in 1892. My guess is my great grandpa Meyer was chasing a dream with hopes of providing a better life for himself and his future family….
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During the Great Depression a young boy recalls going with his father on more than one occasion to visit a local banker in his hometown of Piqua, Ohio. The boy remembers sitting in a room by himself while peering through the window into the banker’s office as his father listened intently to the banker…
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I asked my Facebook friends to complete a survey about what prevents us from changing habits. In other words we have a desire to change and we know what to do in order to change, but we just can’t continue to do what we need to do in order to make the change a…
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Reflect on Twain’s quote above. Life is too short to not take the time to figure out why God made you (your purpose) and in turn design a life around your “why.” The world runs at warp speed today and if we don’t step back and decide what we want to do with our…
I started this blog in 2008 because of my passion for helping others take their lives to the next level. My hope is that, through sharing my life experiences as a business leader, husband, father, and recovering drug addict, I will positively impact your life.