by Rick | Aug 30, 2013 | Blog
When I owned a photography business, summer was full of photographing high school seniors. My favorite part of the process was when they stopped in the studio to look at their proofs. I believed that everyone who came in my studio was beautiful and my job was to use...
by Rick | Aug 27, 2013 | Blog
My heroes are people I can hug. They are normal people who might live right down the street from you in a little two-bedroom house or live in a hut on the other side of the world. I’d like to introduce you to one of my favorite heroes: Amina, the refugee. Amina...
by Rick | Aug 20, 2013 | Blog
My wife and I, along with 18 million other people, are fans of the #1 scripted show on t.v.: NCIS. The leading character, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, (played by Mark Harmon) is a no-nonsense former marine who heads up a Navy crime investigative team. Known for his famous...
by Rick | Aug 16, 2013 | Blog
Pick a situation in your life right now that has chaos. That didn’t take long, did it? Life is continually full of chaos. However, there is a great leadership principle I learned many years ago has been the most important daily leadership principle I...
by Rick | Aug 13, 2013 | Blog
Imagine the next person that walks in your office with a complaint has a monkey on their back. Maybe it’s a cute little guy that makes cute little monkey sounds but it’s totally distracting its owner. Or it might be a big hairy, smelly ape that’s stinking up the room...