The Road Taken

Via Anzaar Nabi

Eleven years ago I started on a strange journey, fulfilling a long-held desire to perform by signing up for classes at Chicago’s famed Second City training center. That led to improv and sketch shows, theater performances and national commercial work.

But a funny thing happened on my way to becoming an actor. I discovered these two roads I was on — business and performance — were not so different …

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11 Deadly Sins of Public Speakers and Presenters (Pt. 2)

Via Superburg

Perhaps the only thing worse than sitting through a dull, lifeless PowerPoint presentation is being the person at the head of the room delivering that presentation …

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5 Life Lessons I Learned From My Cat

On Sunday night I got home from a short vacation and found our very old, very dear cat in a terrible state. After a rush to the animal ER and a diagnosis from our specialty vet, we made the difficult decision the next day to let her go.

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Sterling’s Gold: 7 Lessons for Success from Mad Men

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Roger Sterling: fictional ad man, chronic drinker and serial womanizer. An inspiration to wiseasses everywhere, he says the things we wish we could say in the workplace — only funnier …

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Cut Your Writing to the Bone: 6 Tips

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Editing your own material is one of the hardest things for a writer to do. And it is a must-have skill in this attention span-challenged age …

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Fewer Inspirational Quotes, More Original Thinking, Please

The Internet has ruined quotations for me …

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Eulogy for My Father

On the South Platte River

My father died last week, after a heartbreaking, years-long battle with Alzheimer’s. It was not unexpected, yet it hit me a little harder than I thought, even after all this time to prepare …

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