List of Firsts ...

First memory – the smell of my great Aunt’s Italian deli

First steps – according to my mother 7 months old, which I find hard to believe

First word – also according to my mother – airplane, I’m still fascinated by flying

First dream job – to work with Jacques Costeau and become a marine biologist

First artwork – a still life pastel drawing of a fern, an empty chianti bottle and a Turkish coffee pot

First artwork admired – "Salome", Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henri-Alexandre-Georges Regnault. I still love her!

First pet – a turtle, which after a long weekend away my mother thought was dead in his little palm tree oasis, and we ceremoniously flushed him down the toilet. As he hit the water he swam and my brother and I were screaming to fish him out. The things mother’s will do for their kids – she stuck her hand in the swirling flushing toilet and pulled him out!

First travel – technically flying from Texas to NY but I have no memory of it as a less than 1 year old. To Florida as a 5 year old, and to Europe as a 6th grader.

First car – a powder blue Toyota Corolla which was previously owned by my father … that thing ran for 100,000+ miles

First job – store clerk

First creative job – as a line producer

First shoot – a commercial for P&G

First long format – a film for the American Cancer Society

First Episodic TV show producer – Spy Game, a flop.

What are your firsts?

Marketing Tips

On my daily commute I listen and view podcasts from TED and Harvard Business Review.

Today I listened to a talk by a marketing professor at Harvard and the major piece of knowledge I received was "Businesses need to think about Marketing as an investment not an expense".

It was eye-opening for me and needed to share ... we need to adopt this mindset as well.

Happy learning!

Inspirations

Below are some quotes that are in-line with our methodologies as consultants and coach. Enjoy!

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." Alexander Graham Bell

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What we pay attention to, and how we pay attention, determines the content and quality of life." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"One cannot teach a man anything, One can only enable him to learn from within himself." Galileo Galilei

"We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by desinging the way forward even if the cause remains in place." Edward De Bono


"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it." Wilferd Peterson